denny | People and things... (Reply)

So it turns out my card didn't get cloned again. What actually happened was the card fraud team from Abbey finally got around to sending me that form they mentioned the first time around, three months late, and when I didn't send it back within ten days (because I didn't get it) they promptly put all the fraudulent transactions back through again. Fuckwits.

So now I have to wait for another copy of the form, sign it, send it back, then wait for them to give the money back again. And THEN, I will have a loud shouting match with them about the fees I've incurred with my loan and credit card companies due to payments bouncing due to Abbey being fuckwits.

Still, at least I didn't get ripped off by random strangers again. It was my own bank this time.

In other news, I just got home from

yiskah's book launch party. She was endearingly "over-excited" (to use her own description (just the quoted bit was hers, the 'endearing' is mine but I assure you that it's entirely accurate :) )).

I also got to meet

biascut, who I've encountered many times in the comments in

libellum's journal - at least once or twice on opposite sides of a debate. I like her, it was very good to meet her... probably the highlight of my evening in fact, endearingly over-excited author notwithstanding :)

My ability to cope with large gatherings of people bombed quite spectacularly the minute we turned up, so although I did get into some interesting conversations, I spent most of the evening feeling a bit uncomfortable and eventually left before most other people did. Hopefully nobody was offended.