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I have converted an old paper (originally delivered at Leeds University January 1994 and clearly heavily cut down for this - http://www.alphane.com/moon/PalmTree/tomorrow.htm, an article I agreed to but was never told had appeared) into a new PowerPoint complete with pictures and covering two more novels, ready for Saturday. I do appear to have lost all the specific Jameson stuff (I once did something on PKD and pomo, but that file is lost, and the print out would be ... filed).
Of course, I'll need to to turn it back to an article at some point, but that can wait. There is all the PKD (the PhD) to get back to (particularly with fair use and a more hands-on estate in mind) of course.
Oh. It's 3.30am. It's raining. I need to be up for 10. This is not catching up with sleep.
Of course, I'll need to to turn it back to an article at some point, but that can wait. There is all the PKD (the PhD) to get back to (particularly with fair use and a more hands-on estate in mind) of course.
Oh. It's 3.30am. It's raining. I need to be up for 10. This is not catching up with sleep.
... that torrential rain would silence the dawn chorus and the little beggars would be sheltering at 4am. Not going TWEET TWEET TWEET
You'd be wrong.
You'd be wrong.
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So you're probably fucked.
The first or second time I topped up, the money didn't go on the card. I only found this out at Russell Square when I'd run out of cash and had to top it up there. By queuing.
The next time I used the card it had snapped, and needed to be replaced. Cue queue. And a form longer than the original application, requiring everything about you but inside leg measurements. I've replaced credit cards with less information.
Today I tried to top it up asI my friend will be going to Nottingham tomorrow (I'll be in all day. Marking, obviously.) I need to email for username and password since it's been a while, and is one of the few usernames not to be an email address these days, and it needed a capital letter so wasn't one of my usual password.
Card stopped.
After a work crisis I got onto it: apparently I don't have an account set up.
If you get a new card, you need to set up a new account. They've got all my details, including my credit card number and my secret password - but no bleeding account. They'd even transferred the money across from the old card (though not the journey history grr). But you still have to set up a new account.
I found that out after going through the maze of press 1 if you want child Oyster Card press 2 if you know the way to San Jose press 3 if you have a dial telephone press 4 if you're not sure how this saves time. The first time I got the spiel about being recorded for use on Britain's Got Talons, it rang fifteen times and then hung up. The second time I couldn't find my way back through the maze (them pesky birds ate the breadcrumbes) and I found a voice who told me the right set of keys to press then I found someone who asked me if it would be useful to put me through to someone who could top me up and then put me through to the person I actually needed to talk to.
You know, it's probably quicker to buy tickets for journeys on the Underground.
The first or second time I topped up, the money didn't go on the card. I only found this out at Russell Square when I'd run out of cash and had to top it up there. By queuing.
The next time I used the card it had snapped, and needed to be replaced. Cue queue. And a form longer than the original application, requiring everything about you but inside leg measurements. I've replaced credit cards with less information.
Today I tried to top it up as
Card stopped.
After a work crisis I got onto it: apparently I don't have an account set up.
If you get a new card, you need to set up a new account. They've got all my details, including my credit card number and my secret password - but no bleeding account. They'd even transferred the money across from the old card (though not the journey history grr). But you still have to set up a new account.
I found that out after going through the maze of press 1 if you want child Oyster Card press 2 if you know the way to San Jose press 3 if you have a dial telephone press 4 if you're not sure how this saves time. The first time I got the spiel about being recorded for use on Britain's Got Talons, it rang fifteen times and then hung up. The second time I couldn't find my way back through the maze (them pesky birds ate the breadcrumbes) and I found a voice who told me the right set of keys to press then I found someone who asked me if it would be useful to put me through to someone who could top me up and then put me through to the person I actually needed to talk to.
You know, it's probably quicker to buy tickets for journeys on the Underground.
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