From now on I shall be known as … the MOTHMAN!  (Picture from Wikimedia Commons.)

So it is decided. Well, I don’t have the contract, but we did shake mobile phones on it, and the landlord seems like a honorable man.  Contract as soon as I can get myself over there, no later than Friday.  (I have a course in Grimstad tomorrow Wednesday and the day after, perhaps.)

It seems almost too good to be true, but I seem to have gotten the long-term rent house at Møll (or Moth as I like to call it, since that is the literal translation in modern Norwegian. It probably means Mill or some such, but moths are fun – until they get in your clothes at least!)

I already sang the praises of the pretty green valley of Møll on Saturday.  It is still the same place. I was drawn to the place since I first saw it advertised, and wrote about it already on October 7. So I am pretty happy about getting it.  Sure, I already live alone here (although half the house or so is filled with the landlord’s stuff) and this is more expensive, but compared to having to creep back into a basement and not flush after the children upstairs go to bed… I think this is pretty good.

We agreed that I pay 5 months in advance, I don’t think that is extreme when I’m renting it for 5 years.  But yeah, it is going to leave me broke for a few months.  Broke in the sense of no new computers or peripherals, no expensive gifts, no travels if it can decently be avoided.  Not broke in the sense of terminating my City of Heroes accounts and going on a bread & water diet.

So what should I call the place when I write about it?  I was thinking of just going for the Moth-house.  But it does not really stack up to the Chaos Node, Chaosnodeland or the House of Chaos. Then again I am not as chaotic as I were.  The Moth-cave sounds like fun (like the Bat-cave) but in truth the place does not even have a basement (at least that I know of).  More’s the pity when summer comes.   Hopefully the river will help cool things down, it passes only a few yards from the house, and is brackish enough that I don’t think mosquitoes will be a big problem. Or I could try to get a reversible heat pump.  Note to self: Mention for landlord, since he already considered a heat pump for winter use.

So, dear friends and relatives and lurking agents of the New World Order: What should the name be?  I am probably going with some variant of the House of Moth unless you convince me otherwise.  The name of the website won’t change though, it is too established for that.

On a related note, I expect to transform the small spare bedroom into a full-time wardrobe. Even here, I still have clothes I have not unpacked, ever.  That is going to change.  I will probably not buy clothes other than trousers (they tend to be either too small or far too wide) and socks for the next five years either. Well, unless the moths get into my wardrobe…