Apr. 25th, 2023

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Last Sunday, I went to the Doctor Who exhibition at the National Museum. I realized that I have been to such in England, Wales, and now Scotland. This one was a modest, restrained affair, with a fairly linear path through it, and a focus on alien creatures and, somewhat, technology, with plenty of relevant scientific background from this planet, including on the strange creatures we have here. It was worth its correspondingly modest price.

This morning, I dreamt of being a young man in a large group of such who were in a large building occupied by cybermen (from Doctor Who, these seemed late classic era). The cybermen were forcing us to work at various things for them but not in an organized enough way to stop me accidentally falling through the cracks, I did okay as long as I looked busy. Though, if any did become suspicious, an issue was that it was then difficult to avoid those because they all look the same.

A later dream involved the appearance in the sky of a large fleet of alien spacecraft. Even more peculiarly, there was a subsequent phase where the sky mostly showed some kind of cartoon based on science fiction and spacecraft material. I had the sense that this had happened a few times before but had faded without trace, this time I was able to capture much of it on my cellphone. I was with R.'s youngest who was also witnessing the display but I was careful not to say what I was seeing because it was so incredible that I wanted to see if they said they had seen much the same.
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We hadn't tried FlixBus before but were able to book good, cheap seats for an intercity journey so they definitely seemed worth a try. They then changed the booking to give us worse seats on a different bus. In the meantime, our original seats are back for sale on their website, for more money. Their live-chat service agent cannot reverse this nor initiate a refund.

No doubt the above bait and switch is entirely in accordance with their terms and conditions. However, treating customers like that seems so outrageous to me that I shall make a point of not offering them any more custom until they stop treating people like suckers.

Update: After our subsequent complaint, they eventually issued a full refund.

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