Technical problems addressed - and a plug for a Canadians advertiser.
If any of you Internet Explorer users out there were having trouble reading the site recently, sorry about that - I’d made some changes to the blockquote code that looked great in Netscape and Firefox (you know, the browsers that aren’t like an open gateway to viruses and hack attacks), but looked rotten in IE and made everything hard to read.
Thanks to Rob for letting me know. I had no idea there was a problem until I got his email.
Also, a big thanks to the makers of Wordpress, who made it ‘Aaaah So Easy’ to delete the latest round of European spam commenters before they even got a chance to be seen.
And speaking of Aaah So Easy, I’m not usually one to plug an advertiser here, but I’m of the belief that when you get really great service from a really great company, you ought to tell people about it. The fact that Aah So Easy advertise with the C’s only makes it more of an imperative for me to do so.
A few years back, after hearing one too many mentions of Aaah So Easy Mobile Mini-Storage on the Vancouver Canadians webcast, I decided to use their service during a house move, mainly because I was too cheap to rent a truck. I was duly impressed enough with their service enough to use them again this past week.
The deal is, they drop off a storage cube outside your front door, you load it up at your leisure with your furniture, boxes, etc, then at a given time/day, they take it away on a truck, either to be stored at their facility or dropped at your new address. You then empty it at your leisure.
As anyone who has moved house with a rental truck knows, A) it’s expensive to do so, B) you can never get one at the end of the month, and C) you’re in such a rush to get it back to the rental company by 4pm, you end up practically throwing your furniture off the back of the thing.
The ASE cube, however, can stay there for days if you want it to. No rushing back. No big expense.
So now that I’m selling my place on Broadway and Kingsway ($299k for a 2BR, 2 bath condo with a den and city and mountain views from every room, in case you’re looking) and moving to Steveston (don’t ask), I opted this past week to load most of my stuff into an ASE cube and have them store it all for a month, so I could show potential buyers through my place and have it showing at its best. After all, who wants to see all my crap lying around?
The cube arrived at 7am, I loaded it up through the day, and at 7am next day it promptly disappeared - gone until I call and ask for it back. Seriously, with no shillery intended, that’s ‘ah so easy’.
So if you’re a C’s fan and want to reward an advertiser, take note. And if you’d just like to not have to eal with moving vans ever again, even more reason to take note. They’re in the phone book, and they hereby get the NFTN Candadians Advertiser of the Month Award.
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