. Here's an update on my bank saga. I received my new bank card but can't use it because my tan generator has to be replaced with a modern one, unfortunately to order one you need a tan generator and the company that produces them for my bank doesn't deliver outside of Europe. I have a friend and ex-colleague in Germany who ordered and paid for one for me and sent it by DHL, DHL is now on strike.
My bank, who previously said it can't be done without a tan generator, have sent me money, bank to bank to my account in Thailand, takes about two weeks, well better than nothing but after a week of waiting my bank informs me that there is something wrong with the account number they have given Bangkok bank who have requested clarification so would I send them more info (they fricked it up).
I should be able to use an ATM with my new card but the post with the new PIN number hasn't arrived (it's two weeks overdue), maybe Covid backlog is to blame or, like my first card I was sent, it got lost in the post.
So after two months without income at the moment we are surviving on spaghetti sauce with rice and wondering how to pay the land tax and the electricity bill.
The cosmos does not wish me well. An example of our complete lack of control over our lives, causality is king.