Technical Difficulties
In Review: So, if you didn't see the post I made yesterday, I need to get some documents together to file for my fiancee's visa and am in a hurry to get it done before they make the visa harder to get which could be any day. Yesterday I needed to get some "stat decs" (notarized statements) from friends attesting to the genuineness of the relationship, as well as some papers filed with a "registered celebrant" (authorized officiator of weddings, which apparently requires like an associates degree in officiating or something, seriously).
Yesterday's updates: I added some updates to yesterday's post after initially making it so you may have missed them. First a neighbor was willing to make a stat dec but couldn't print it for lack of ink, so I volunteered to print it for them but then discovered I couldn't print it because my wifi was down and my computer talks to my printer via wifi. Attempting to use my phone as a hotspot didn't seem to work with my printer. So that was frustrating.
Fortunately that evening the wifi was back, and I was able to print the form and bring it to the neighbor. Then I got working on the NOIM form (the one needing to be filed with the celebrant), lined one up to meet with one in the morning, filled out the form, went to print it and.... despite wifi at this time working the printer wouldn't work. Tried everything in my limited IT knowledge to troubleshoot it, ie resetting both the computer and printer, running the printer troubleshooter function on the computer (which confirmed there was an error but aside from ruling out a lot of things couldn't identify what the error was). I ended up spending two hours trying to make the printer print and couldn't do so, staying up unusually late until 12:30. This was very very frustrating.
New news since last updates:
I was meeting the celebrant at 8am, so I got up at six and went to the general store, even though printing is not a service they provide I was desperate and hoped maybe they'd take pity on me. They didn't. The post office here which makes copies doesn't open till 9 and I was standing outside the general store pondering whether I had any chance of finding a place open that early in the larger town (pop 11,000) of colac 15 min away when another neighbor of my aquantaince happened along. In our "how's it going"s I mentioned my frustrating problem and he said he had a home office and he'd gladly print it for me after he got his coffee. We walked to his place and printed it out, problem solved!
As of tonight (the penultimate day of the month, "by the end of November" being the timeframe I was told the laws would become stricter in), I have the necessary two stat decs, and the celebrant has promised to send me the filed documents in the morning. Really down to the wire!