What A Fucking Week

[captlychee]

I have a lost control of my life.

So, who of us here, or you out there, Constant Reader, is in control of their life? We may not be at the merc of forces outside ourselves but they do affect us in some way. Rain wets us, cold chills us, the vicissitufes of the Australian dollar make us cringe in fear every time we go near Amazon or PayPal and sometimes we get infectd by cholera bacilli as life gets all Yemeni on our arses and connected tubing. Apparently two thirds of the people in th yemen can't get clean drinking water. Hve they seen what come sout of my tap in Ballarat? In this post, however, I am determined not to go off the track. The point is that I have lost control of my life.

For example, I was trying to bpay some bills the other day and I noticed that the ol' bank balance is a lot ower than it should be. Now, I've beenbopping along here, happily solvent, since the end of September last yar and nthere have been no unexpect4d purchaes except for th heater last month ($319) but all of a sudden there's bugger all in the account. I'm not desperate but there should be enough money in there to, say, buy a vacuum cleaner without going into a panic, but for som ereason there isn't. And remember, I'm not spending $70 a night on meals, either. Strictly McDonalds, KFC, Red Rooster, very occasionally La Porchetta now and coleslaw and Special K and Sultana Bran from the supermarket—though not at the same time.

Then I missed the bus to Geelong on the weekend by four minutes on Saturday and had to take four hours to get to Geelong for an evening's pissup with eggnacon (if that will work in Dreamwidth) and the Guru.

Every attempt I've made at booking a flight to Orlando to see my darling Kelvatari hs failed, usually due to indufficient credit but on Sunday due to some mysterious bloody error with the bloody Qantas website that had me booking a ticket ot Orlando and then receiving a flight reference for a flight to Ontario. Ontario? Where in Ongtario? But apparently there is an Ontario in California.

This last simple error has now takne ,i>three days to sort out with Wantas, the situation exacerbaed by the usual set of fcukwits on the other end of the phone who tell you what they think is true because they can't actually check out what is actually true. Or they jus want to delay you until it's too late to do anything about it and force youto pay. This woldn't have bothered me as much as it does if I had anenough credit to buy a correct ticket and just tell them to get fucked on the Ontario one, but I don't have that now. Besides which, when similar errors used tohappen at the ol' ATO it would take me twenty fucking minutes to sort it out. Not three days. And one of those days was because they ahd sent the appropriate fax indicating to the chimps at ME Bank that the bill was in error mentionoing all the correct details but including the name 'Darren Dent'.

Dent?

Dent???

As I explaiend today to the woman at Qantas, i havent' come across the isspelling 'dent' since 1982 when Telecom, as Telstra was called back before some spastic marketing spasm got everyone using 'Telstra', 'Westpac' and 'BUPA' into the list of corporate insutls to English, tried to make me pay a bill in that name. (In 1991, my electricity bill arrived in the name of 'Michelle Kerr' which was ridiculous in the extreme, and the idiots at the SEC then demanded that the bill be in the name of all the holders of the lease. Thank God amendments to the legislation, and then the destruction of the State Electricity Commission fixed up that line of bullshit. It also galls me that I took their word for it that they could do this.)

And last night I opened a bottle of wine to console myself after all this crap and then left itout onthebench all night because I couldn't find the top. Which was behind the bottle. So good luck drinking this over-decanted, for want of a better word, vino.

I just feel like dying but I'd probably fuck that up and live forever or sometning. I just have to get back on top of this. That is, if I can even post this update.