Hey folks, ever had trouble with mice?

Don't they just drive you mad, scurrying all over the page and not entering the screen when you expect them to - a total rejection of appearing in the expected place, and then of all things jumping out onto the very place where you had least expected to see them. Just jumping up and down and up and down, quivering and then disappearing altogether.

Outbreaks of this mouse virus have struck this house before. We tried the Dell mouse which came with the system but it quickly succumbed, then the Kensington mouse from my laptop which is fine on the laptop, and finally a truly fancy tiny pink and chrome mouse called Fifi which my son had picked up at an exhibition in Paris last year.

(By the way, did I ever tell you that my oldest son designs and builds enormous exhibition stands - some as much as 15 metres high, some shaped like burgers, or flying saucers, or even cheese - whatever the client wants - and then goes out to different countries as far flung as South Africa, or Argentina, and erects them. Later after the exhibition is over he takes them down again and comes home. Well the pink and chrome mouse, Fifi, was one of many freebees given away at such events, so we tried that one as well).

All mice seem to be infected with St Vitus' Dance. We cannot control them or keep them still on the screen. Has anyone else had such a problem with mice?

Any advice much welcomed.

Comfort Blanket

Soft and fluffy and warm
silver downy billows gently hide
my pillows wet from tears.

Lift me above white clouds to where
shines fiery sun all day, glows placid moon all night,
where crystal rain is not yet made.

Now my ego is eased,
all betrayals blanket-comforted
- warm and fluffy and soft

Sujen
3.10.08