Including such excitements as car insurance letters, openid and ficathon writing.

On Wednesday the post arrived before I left for work. Which makes a gap of five hours during which the post might arrive. Anyway, my only post was a letter from the RAC who I have my car insurance with telling me that they hadn't put my latest claim on when I last renewed. I didn't have time to do more than just read it, so I took it to work. In a spare few minutes when I needed a break from staring at data in excel I thought I'd ring them up.

Except I couldn't find a number to ring on the letter anywhere. So I went on the website, eventually found one, and rang it. The woman told me it was the wrong number and refused to give me the right one. So I rang a different number (there are plenty on the site to choose from) and got put in a queue. So I gave up and decided I'd ring them when I got home.

Once at home I went through my box and found my envelope of car insurance stuff, picked a number from that and spent ages in a queue. It turns out that someone cocked up and accidentally sent that letter out to all their UK customers and not just the handful of people it should have gone to. So that was a relief. Once I put the phone down I discovered the letter had a phone number in the last paragraph...

I replied to a comment on Blogger the other day and it had all sorts of openid options, including LJ, WP and AIM. Now why doesn't WP have that yet? Mind you, I commented on Scribbld the other week, which is an LJ clone and I was the only person to have used openid with my LJ identity. Everyone else just made an anonymous comment and signed their name. I was amused to see that the last option on Scribbld to say who you are asked for your Livejournal username. By which it meant your Scribbld username...

I thought I'd ring my voicemail today, just to see if I had any. I have a symbol that tells me I do, but that doesn't mean anything. The trouble is it costs me money to ring my voicemail, so I don't. If people don't leave a message and my mobile is switched off I get a text message with their number, and if my phone is switched on then I get a message on screen to tell me I have a missed call. So I don't quite see the point of voicemail.

Anyway, now I definitely don't have voicemail: when I pressed the button to ring the number I just got a woman at the other end telling me the premium rate number I'd rung didn't exist. So, no one leave me a voicemail because I really can't listen to it.

I have finished my SJA ficathon fic! Well, it's in beta, but since the deadline's not till Monday that's earlier than I thought I was going to finish it earlier this week. I can no longer tell whether it's any good, though, I've read it so many times in the past couple of days.

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