I have turned off geo-tagging for guests to this journal. My understanding is that older posts will still show geographic information about visitors. If and when there is a way to turn that off as well I will do so. You guys live in my heart, no need for anyone to know what street you're on.

 Sometime between 8pm last night when I walked the dogs and 1 or so this afternoon when I got back over to feed them (we had dear friend's Bat Mitzvah this morning, OMG she did SO WELL!) someone STOLE OUR MAILBOX!!!

Now, it's true that said mailbox was no longer mounted on our wall (mostly cause the wall is not really there at the moment) and for ( Read more... )

aka I've got a really busy day ahead and some time-sensitive tasks so it made perfect sense to spend the last hour adding commentary and embedding videos in the Lyrics Meme post from yesterday. Umm, right. Now, you should VALIDATE all the time I just, uh, wasted, by clicking over to see what you knew without knowing you knew and check out the ( Read more... )

Via Making Light* and papersky (and because the two 8th graders in my back seat last night spent five minutes making "Eats, shoots and leaves" jokes. I get a nice warm feeling in my gut when 13 year olds make grammar jokes.)

A very interesting photo caption: "'Merle Haggard The documentary' was filmed over three years. Among those interviewed were his ( Read more... )

One not so great thing that occurred during vacation was that my debit card was cancelled. Just after I made some small charges (Aero bars OMG) in Montreal. Despite the fact that I gave the credit union advance notice that I would be out of the country.

It wasn't terrible, I had cash and an actual credit card that I hate to use and I really wasn't ( Read more... )

Oh, MAN...First I missed getting tickets for the Rolling Roadshow of JAWS this weekend before it sold out so not only do I not get to watch Jaws on a giant inflatable screen while lounging in an inner tube with my feet dangling in the dark waters of Lake Travis but I'm going to be in Montreal (assuming the interview w/ immigration at the Port of ( Read more... )

AHAHA! I broke down and tried the writing meme thing and got:


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True to their word I now have the documents that I need to fill out in order to renounce any claim to the Permanent Resident status I never applied for, never qualified for, and have already relinquished either once or twice depending on how you count the Landed Immigrant status ( Read more... )

Cut and pasted directly from today's missive from the Immigration section:

Your question relates to decisions made by CBSA Officers at a Port of Entry. The Canadian Consulate cannot intercede ( Read more... )

I have been remiss in not chronicling my hilarious ongoing communications with various Canadian Immigration officials over the exact nature of my status. Which is sort of odd since I have not lived in Canada since 1980!( Onward to head*desk bureaucratic goodness )