Things That Arrive At The Door

[gothwalk]

So today has been a day of free stuff, or very cheap, at least. Yesterday, someone phoned me from the company (Carphone Warehouse) where I bought a phone something over two years ago - I've been paying them for insurance ever since, despite never having made any claim on it. They were working with the actual phone company (O2), and offering me an upgrade deal. For €20 and a contract renewal with O2 for a year, I could get a new phone (Nokia 6610i) and a free MP3 player (Leadram 128Mb). And they'd courier it to me in work. So I agreed, and lo, it arrived around four this afternoon, and it was good. The phone is nice - nothing remarkable, except for general outsnazzing my old phone - and the MP3 player has been dubbed Meeces, which some people will understand. It's also a USB drive thingummy, which is good, because I had recently decided I need one.

And then I came home, since the Mortals game had been cancelled, and found a set of new cards from vistaprint.ie waiting for me. They're rather nice, full colour, and have my name and contact details and "dukestreet.org" on them, and will be useful. And they were free, and I only had to pay for shipping.

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know why you called it Meeces, but it reminds me of the singing mice from Babe, and as such seems quite appropriate.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

There's a chap currently wandering around Davon called Thunder Lies Dreaming (thunderdreaming). He's a drow wizard, and he's quite quite barmy. In his room in White Manor - Arnol keeps an eye on him there - he has a walk-in cupboard. The cupboard has shelves all around, larder-style. On the shelves are hundreds and hundreds of taxidermied mice, dressed in court clothing, and with all kinds of doll-house sized props. They talk - all at once, in unison, in a high-pitched sing-song voice, and act as Thunder's PA, information store, and sanity curator. This entity is referred to as Mouses, which is also the name of my desktop machine.

When Thunder goes travelling, he brings a small chest with him which contains a selection of the mice. This is the original Meeces.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

ooh, free cards. shiny.