Costco (by alaric)

Ah, the benefits of having a limited company!

We're now members of CostCo, a wholesaler of general retaillable things. Which means we can go to their nice warehouse, flash our membership cards, and load up on bulk packs of all sorts of stuff, generally quite cheap (although some of their stuff is more expensive than on the high street; it pays to check carefully).

This, however, is great for stocking up on food for Christmas, printer paper, and so on...

And handily, they sell generators. Since we're a bit worried about power cuts here interrupting my ability to work, we've picked up a generator capable of running the PCs and freezers for a few hours before needing refuelling.

I've had to order a special plug, though - it has a 16A weatherproof socket on it:

...so I'm making up a custom extension cable starting with one of those and ending up with two different sets of 13A outlets, so we can run the computers (upstairs) and the freezers/ADSL router (downstairs)