Switching Banks is actually quite easy
So I was caught up in the change from LlloydsTsb to Lloyds/TSB. I was with TSB originally, then got merged in to the big group, and now they are splitting up again, I am going back to my roots!
(And also taking the opportunity to move all my accounts to one place, rather than having them spread all over the gorram country).
The phone call was actually quite easy – a nice lady named Charlotte was VERY helpful and seemed very happy to be doing this change for me (seriously – I have talked to people who have been happier to do something, but usually they are getting married or having a baby or getting a new job).
So now my main account is being moved. And I would give you the details, but since I am not actually an utter moron, I am not going to.
(We have an award at work for the "idiot programmer of the day" – it is for when you do something so utterly idiotic in development that you really can not believe you missed it the first time through. I am not talking about simple thing like typos, but – well the most recent time I was given the award was because I changed the way I was reading data from a database, without remembering that previously I cleared down the data when I was done – it was a temporary read – so I spent three hours trying to work out why I couldn’t get the data to read before realising it read perfectly but was then deleted. That’s the level of idiocy required. And even though I have won it five times – in around a month – I am still not going to write down my bank details on a public diary site!).
Anyway – the rest of my day is going to be spent lazing around doing very little, because my last two weekends have been quite busy and everyone needs some down time,
Meanwhile my story for NaNo2013 is not underway (because that would clearly be cheating) but is getting way past the plot bunny stage and in to the "development phase" (for want of a better phrase).
It’s all about Emily Brown who is going for a job interview at DWP – a software house that is looking for a web programmer (which happens to be her speciality).
Which, on the face of it sounds dull, but trust me – it should be a lot of fun.
My only other surprise today was my first encounter with a site called The Daily Bale, and I am now trying to work out if it is parody stie or if the people who run it are just utter morons. Because no one in their right mind could believe the vast majority of the stories that are written there. I have a fairly good imagination, but most of the stories there are……
Well – imagine Draco Malfoy was running a newspaper, and he heard a rumour that Harry Potter had been seen kicking a puppy. Then imagine he wrote the story without checking any facts or bothering to find out whether the story was even true or not.
They all ready pretty much like that – in fact, they all read like The National Inquirer, or even The Onion (if The Onion was run by right-wing racist, anti-semitic sexists who think everyone who isn’t Nick Griffen is scum and everyone who opposes Nick Griffen is a child molesting Jew).
I am also pretty sure that some of the stories on that site are verging on libel if not incredibly guilty of it.
Anyway – that’s it for the moment. I am possibly going to write a TOTW about Doctor Who (because Doctor Who is the source of all goodness – well, a source of all goodness. Not the only one. There is also my girlfriend and Sharknado, and probably quite a few more I am forgetting).