I’m not feeling too sharp this morning – still very fatigued from yesterday, I guess. Still, I have plenty of paperwork that I need to attend to, so that’s my plan today. I need to go through the paperwork that Yorkshire Bank have sent us in connection with a business account for my wife’s business and I really need to contact the bloke who deals with my pension – I came across some paperwork yesterday that I had mislaid, so I logged onto the pension company’s website to check on my pension fund to discover that my fund went up by almost 10% in the month following the EU referendum! Obviously somebody must be happy about Brexit!
I take the dog for her morning walk, and settle down on the sofa with a cup of tea, my iPhone, iPad and MacBook – totally connected, 100% Apple tart. All of our Apple gear is outdated, though, so I have to think about replacing everything. I’m keeping a close watch on eBay at the moment.
I switch my device over to Group ‘B’ settings. My current tremor will make things a struggle. Group ‘B’ feels a little better, but not a lot. I can immediately feel the onset of dyskinesia in my right arm, and know that I won’t be able to tolerate it for very long.
Paperwork! I start to go through the business account application forms, and my heart sinks. These forms that they have posted out to us should contain all of the (accurate) application data that I entered online – all I should have to do is check and sign them. The company name is wrong, the trading name is wrong, the trading address is wrong, the registered address is wrong… I call the company help line, and eventually get to speak to a very apologetic man who promises to make a note on their system, and that they will prioritise our application when I send the forms back, as an acknowledgement that they have screwed up. We shall see, but it’s not a very impressive start. This is meant to be their business. It’s what they do. If they can’t get a simple application for a business account right, it really does make you wonder!
I switch back to Group ‘A’ settings before taking the dog for her afternoon walk – she’s been very patient, but I know her eyes are watching my every move, waiting for me to move from my seat and head towards the front door.
Tremor returns, accompanied by some dystonia, and I know I’m gong to be self-medicating before too much of this evening has gone by.