Relief...

[mad_andy]

Much better today. Yesterday must have just been... tired, I guess. The man came round this morning to sort out our little problem with the phone line. (To whit: when we had the cable modem fitted we had to have an extra phone line; Slay used to use it for a spare dial-up line from the office. For the last few months we haven't used it, however; so you can imagine how pleased we were when, instead of there just being line rental on the latest bill there were fifty quid's worth of calls. Ringing the number - and expecting it to ring on the spare phone in the house - we were startled to discover that it was answered by a woman who lives down the road. Not half as surprised as she was to receive a call from an Unexploded Slay at half ten at night, though.)

And we now have our storage problem sorted. How? Well, if I have to give anyone directions to our house I can now say 'just look out for the one with the container in the back garden...'

Yup, one of those things that crosses the world on the back of those mighty container ships. Big oblong steel box. Farking enormous it is! It only cost £100 to have delivered, and the cost of rental is £1 a day. This is compared to over a hundred quid a month to use storage space in one of those warehouses! The flipside is having a mighty steel box in the back garden, but what the hell - we didn't use the rough patch down the side of the house anyway, and it's a damn sight more impressive than having a shed. Water, weather and fireproof too.

I rather like it, but suspect that the neighbours are likely to be slightly less impressed...

I shall await the first hysterical communication from the council with interest!

Comments

[evaine.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're feeling better, my friend! *grin*

But... I gotta ask. WTF is an Unexploded Slay? This conjures up all kinds of things in my fertile little brain. *LOL*

And I never realised you could rent those container things for one's personal use. How neat!

[madandy.livejournal.com]

I always use the phrase to mean he's in that stage of gritted-teeth calm that precedes an explosion of temper... you know, the bit before you lose it and start screaming at people!!!!

And yeah, I was surprised. I keep looking out the back door to see if it's still there. *Snort* Weird thing to have.

[evaine.livejournal.com]

Ah, that'd be the natural state of the STBE then. *nodding* I get ya!

[dogologist.livejournal.com]

You wouldnt, by any chance, be available to proofread a 15,000 word document some time this week, would you? It's half-term so all my regular proofreaders are unavailable, and I've got some poor guy begging me because he needs to get it checked before a meeting next Tuesday to decide whether he can convert from an MPhil to a PhD. It'd be a £60 job, but I have no idea how bad his English is or how much correction would be involved, and I'm going to be away from Thursday evening.

[madandy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure! E-mail me with the details: andreaslaymaker@hotmail.com

[dogologist.livejournal.com]

Oh, you star! I've not got the document yet, but I've asked the chap to mail you ASAP to sort it out. He's called Muhamad Arshan.

Thank you! I hate turning people away when they're genuinely desperate.

[glammetalkitten.livejournal.com]

I have to say, from the little I saw in the line at Download when dealing with the idiots from Show Sec that I wouldn't like to be within a hundred miles of an Unexploded Slay!

[madandy.livejournal.com]

It is quite impressive, isn't it?! ;)

[stonefinder.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can plant something to hide the container? Good solution, by the way but I can see why people would bitch about it. Glad you're feeling better.

[kraftpistole.livejournal.com]

Now I'm picturing a huge black box in the middle of a garden like the ones in the Wallace & Gromit movie. Heh. Sort of like a huge freight elevator to the centre of the Earth...?

[bella-cheval.livejournal.com]

Good to hear things are better, luv.

I'm with Rhi. Hide something nasty in it and let one of the whiners go into it. Heh, heh, heh.

[kelpierocks.livejournal.com]

Very glad things are better today. Your storage solution sounds cool... I had no idea you could get one of those things personally.

I would not want to encounter an Unexploded Slay at any time of the day or night.

[madandy.livejournal.com]

I know, I was amazed. It would honestly never have occurred to me to consider it - unfortunately, Slay is so damn impressed with it that now he's considering buying one... *groan*

[dragonspell.livejournal.com]

"Unexploded Slay." **blink** Okay.

...So why was the phone answered by a woman down the street? ...How?

And now I'm picturing a giantic obsidian monolith in your backyard. Maybe you'll get pilgrims?

[madandy.livejournal.com]

The cable company - which is apparently staffed by fuckwits - had allocated the number to a new customer, the woman down the road. However, they had failed to change the billing details; so she was making calls, and we got the bill!!!

It's a big red container. I must take pics!

[silentinflames.livejournal.com]

A container! How cool is that? Yeah, the neighbors may be less enthusiastic about it. Hope they won't make too much fuss.

[madandy.livejournal.com]

We'll just tell them we're emigrating, and hope that shuts them up.

[silentinflames.livejournal.com]

We'll just tell them we're emigrating

That might cause them to throw a street party. If you're lucky they'll invite you. ;)

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

Well, if I have to give anyone directions to our house I can now say 'just look out for the one with the container in the back garden...'

LOL, that's easy, then. Glad to hear things are better.