Hey, that reminds me. Passport expires in a few months. Need to go get more pictures taken. Probably should submit a new picture for my credit card as well. It's a nice picture but....my hair isn't that long and I'm not 19.

JohnSweden - what's your lj name?

And the article states just a license will do. Don't know if that's de jure.

Legally, I'm pretty sure you have to have a DL and birth certificate, if you don't have a passport.

In practice, I used to travel to Canada with only a DL all the time. But since 9/11 I've been carrying my passport. (Driving, you still don't really need one to get into Canada, but getting back into the US has gotten to be much more of an ordeal.)

Yeah, I know a lot of people who've gone with just their license--they'll lecture you about it now, but generally let you cross. (Paul didn't have his birth certificate with him when we went up for Gram's wake.)

Realistically, I don't see how this is going to actually tighten security any more than actually enforcing the rules would.

They'd have to be not only steel, but stolen.

I figure stealing steel balls is easier than growing them, and not just for chicks.

Question for non morning people:

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

I mean, it's not just being sleepy, is it? Or is it? When I'm underslept (like now), coffee opens my eyes but makes me tense. And when the caffeine wears off, the tiredness comes back. Nothing makes it go away but sleep. So I will be in the afternoon the same disgruntled way I was in the AM.

Which is normally how it is -- I wake up just fine, and often early and before an alarm clock.

So I was wondering.

I'm counting the days until my passport expires. I desperately want a new picture taken. (The current one is so unspeakably awful that I'm insulted whenever border guards accept it as valid ID. I want them to look at it and say "No way! You're much better looking than that!")

Legally, I'm pretty sure you have to have a DL and birth certificate, if you don't have a passport.

Sorry -- I meant if the article was positing it as de jure.

JohnSweden - what's your lj name?

beathen, I'm hereward on lj.

What's up? No, I mean, what does non-morning mean? You wake up slowly? You wake up too soon? What, outside of stimulants, fixes the gronk? Not taxing yourself for a long time after waking up? Waking up later? Going to sleep earlier?

For me, it means my normal sleep cycle starts late in the evening (after midnight, usually, no matter how early I try to go to bed) and lasts until long after a morning alarm. It takes me about an hour or two to become human, with coffee or without.

So I was wondering.

For me, it's a question of what my internal clock prefers. If I didn't have to have a day job to make a living, I'd keep hours from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Even now, I often have trouble falling asleep around 10 p.m., which is when I need to go to sleep in order to get as many sleeping hours as I need.

Mmm, sleep.

eta: I can still make myself get up at 5:30 a.m. and go on a 5-mile run, but higher brain functions need to wait until 9 a.m., as a rule.