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September 13, 2005
Packing round up
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OK, a few notes about the planning and packing to finish this topic off:
- UBS is almost history! On Monday I closed four of six accounts with them (savings, two pensions, and USD) and did so with pure joy in my heart. The oppertunity to publicly riducule the teller who created this mess came up because closing most accounts is done at the teller windows. When I was head of the queue the same woman who caused all this stress called me to her window because she was free. I, oh so childishly, said loudly to the guy behind me "No...she is too stupid...you go." Everyone in the lobby stopped and stared first at me, then at her. Two minutes later I was closing my accounts with a young, somewhat frightened teller who I treated with friendly respect. To those who thing I'm being overly childish about this please note that it has been 27 days since the deposite was made...and I still don't have my money!
- Last moment purchase of a pair of treking shoes to subsitute for my full blown hiking boots: It's warm here and everyone on the forums seems to recommend against boots unless my trip would involve some hard core hiking.
- Child's Dream (the Swiss NGO I'm helping out, see About) asked me to ferry two laptops donated by the Swiss Stock Exchange with me to Chiang Mai. Thinking nothing of it I said 'sure!' Now my pack is about 8kg heavier, or about an additional 30-40% more than without them. "It is all for a good cause" I keep telling myself but my back begs to differ ;)
- So, I take the 19:58 S8 S-Bahn train to the airport, dump my heavey (22kg) Explorer 65 rucksack onto the ground, and proceed to wrap it up in my newly purchased PacSafe 55. It doesn't fit. In the back of my mind I had always wondered about the 55 vs 65 discrepancy between the model numbers...and now it's come back to smack me in the face at zero hour. Fuck. Thirty or so quid down the tube. How could I have been so stupid as to not have tested this out beforhand???
Posted by stu at September 13, 2005 09:46 PM