Since my last whinge-fest, Bank of America sent my debit card to my father's house back in Australia. When I rang up to ask for one to be sent to me, they had no record of ever sending one out, and promised to send me one to my work address.
Today, I receive an email from my father (in Australia) telling me that he's received another one.
GARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHH
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My guest post on the Google Blog about what I have been working on (and have now delivered).
Thank you friends, for putting up with my email and IM silence over the past few weeks. I've been having the time of my life.
I've been working fulltime in the web industry since I was 19, and since then, I've always been the youngest person at whatever place I was working. Now, six years on, I come to Google and find large herds of people younger than me. This, combined with turning a quarter-century old today, is going to give me another midlife crisis.
I took down iswonderful because spammers were using the mail form to harass people (Dear Internet, I'm really very sorry), and I don't have the time or energy to add a captcha solution.
The bank (Bank of America) have had a great time with me too - first they got my username incorrect in my signup form, leaving me with no way of signing into their online banking service, this would be ok because I could recover it using my debit card. But then I never got my debit card, and then finally today I get a letter from them saying "we can't send you your debit card because your photo doesn't fit our requirements" .... this letter made me quite cross, because they were the ones who took the photo.
I also still don't have my Social Security Number (I have a letter saying it will take 60 days), because the person I spoke to thought my visa category was weird .. despite everyone else I know with the same visa getting their SSNs after a few days. Let's not forget how long it took to get that visa in the first place.
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But, it's all good - it's my birthday, afterall. Kung pow.
Also, Bank of America phone support was actually pretty nice.
P.S. Did I mention my temporary housing runs out tonight and there are only two places on the rental tour tomorrow? Whoopie.
