So, we went to the bank today to finally try to bank the $1500 Canadian security deposit for the Banff flat. Previous attempts with Matt, Andy and I in different states have met with failure, but with all of us in Perth, we thought we had a good shot. So we drove over to the Commonwealth Bank, without the cheque.

Twenty minutes later, we went to the bank with the cheque, a distinct improvement. Previously, the Cockers had been told that we’d all need to open a joint account in which to cash the cheque. Today we were told that yes, we’d need one of those, but we’d also need a whole bunch of assets with the bank in case the cheque was dodgy. So, no, you can’t have your money. Try next door.

And so we did, afraid that the curse of the cheque would follow us. But they said yeah, sure, we can send that to our friends in Canada who’ll bank it and send the money back to us and put it in Andy’s account. Just sign the back of the cheque.

The moral of the story being that Commonwealth Bank really suck. Or possibly that you shouldn’t count your chickens until the money’s in Andy’s account.

But these new funds will help greatly in buying all the shiny new Apple stuff released today. Well, actually I’m still after my iMac, which is slightly cheaper now, but there was a lot of surprisingly cheap stuff out. An even cheaper flash-drive iPod — the iPod Shuffle — and the Mac mini, a teeny little reasonable-spec Mac. Apple released their own Word Processor/PageMaker kind of program too, but I really don’t use word processors enough to bother with that. Sad, as it’s the most affordable thing Apple have released for a while.

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