The perils of non-existence
I think I may have mentioned a couple of years ago the difficulties I was having getting a passport on account of how hard it is to prove that you exist when you don't have a driver's licence. Well, this problem has arisen again in the course of trying to sell our old house. As of Monday (this coming Monday) the laws about signing transfer papers for land are changing to require fairly stringent identification (it must be more than the 100 points of ID criteria because one of the options is providing both a driver's licence and a passport). The only currently valid passport I have is a government passport used for travelling for work, and this passport is held by my work (in a safe in Canberra). It's not very clear that they would be willing to release it solely for identification purposes. Since I have neither a driver's licence nor a passport then it looks like it might be necessary to haul a third person along to the paper signing who could testify that I am who I say I am. Fortunately the conveyancer has decided they will be happy with my work security pass (which has my photo on) plus a bunch of other standard things.
It's been a pretty quiet week. Mostly I have been lazing around at home sleeping late, doing jigsaw puzzles, playing Skyrim, refereeing child fights and various other things. I finally got around to planting those seedlings. It would be nice if we could actually have some of that rain the BoM keeps talking about to help them get settled in. I cut out the fabric for my late 15th century gown, then realised that I didn't actually have any thread of the right sort and/or colour to start sewing it together. I wrote up the recipes from the feast. So, a quiet week, but I think I needed it after the mad, mad last few months. There's a small amount of madness remaining, but most of the big things for this half of the year have been ticked off.
In other news, I just got a two month subscription to the Elder Scrolls Online. I don't think I'm going to start it until our internet allowance rolls over, because we're not far off dial up speed oblivion for this month.
It's been a pretty quiet week. Mostly I have been lazing around at home sleeping late, doing jigsaw puzzles, playing Skyrim, refereeing child fights and various other things. I finally got around to planting those seedlings. It would be nice if we could actually have some of that rain the BoM keeps talking about to help them get settled in. I cut out the fabric for my late 15th century gown, then realised that I didn't actually have any thread of the right sort and/or colour to start sewing it together. I wrote up the recipes from the feast. So, a quiet week, but I think I needed it after the mad, mad last few months. There's a small amount of madness remaining, but most of the big things for this half of the year have been ticked off.
In other news, I just got a two month subscription to the Elder Scrolls Online. I don't think I'm going to start it until our internet allowance rolls over, because we're not far off dial up speed oblivion for this month.