Happy birthday mac! Hey, mac goes all the way up to 11!

Hurry hurry, that joke won't last, only 364 more days to use it.

Happy birthday, Mac! May 11 be a calmer year for you, kiddo.

Cash, I want to borrow Owen the next time I have to explains the basics of clear writing to co-workers. Which may be sooner rather than later.

so, Beau and I both lost our birth certificates (and my passport and our car titles) in what must be a major fuck up. I don't know when we lost our documents, but gone they are.

I had to get a passport ASAP so I had to go online and order a birth certificate from LA county. I paid an expediting fee, filled out the details, and then I had to go to my credit union to get a document notarized. I scanned that doc in and faxed it to the service. My birth certificate arrived in about 1 week.

Beau was born in NYC. So he went through (roughly) the same service to apply, but in NYC, they ask for key details like when you get an online credit report (which of these streets have you never lived on; which of these cities have you never lived). After answering these questions successfully, he paid the fee and he'll get the document.

I think these cities have interesting variations in how they will provide birth certificates. One needs a notary and the other, just answer security questions!

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le n, that's interesting - definitely full of slightly gaggy fuzzy management jargon, but even so I could look at the non-extraordinary bosses parts and go, "Yep, old manager did this, said that, acted thus, yep, yep, yep, that's all her." *So* glad to be out of there.

eta: And, ugh, what a horrible PITA. I'm glad you were able to get it all back. And the security questions sound kind of interesting... now I sort of want to claim to have lost my own birth cert just so I can hear my own security questions.

Belated Happy Birthday, mac!

And the security questions sound kind of interesting... now I sort of want to claim to have lost my own birth cert just so I can hear my own security questions.

Mine always ask how much I pay each month for my car payment, give me a list of streets and ask which one I've lived on, and then usually ask one or two things that I can't answer, like how much I pay per month on some loan I never got (there's always an answer choice of "I don't have a loan of this sort," or something.) Since I only have two things that have a set payment every month (car payments and student loan), those two always get asked. I assume that people with mortgages and other stuff would get more of a variety of questions.

I'm more interested in the "passport ASAP" part.

I need to get a new copy of my birth certificate. Mine was lost of in the mists of time, and when I needed a copy some time ago, Illinois made the copy on a thermal fax machine, which had pretty much disappeared elsewhere by that time. It's now a piece of gray paper with an embossed Illinois seal.

ha!

I had a conference out of the country (it has already occurred) and I discovered my lost documents about 4 weeks prior to my travel.

So I ended up driving to parts unknown to show up in person to apply for a passport. The levels of security at the Secretary of State's office are a trip.

I got a replacement passport in less than a week, via mail, recently, and my daughter's new passport took about 2 weeks (had to apply in person, but at local city office). Both were expedited, but no overnight mail.

That reminds me, I need to pick up a copy of my birth certificate just to add it to the family collection. When I picked up birth certs for the kids I went in person, but all I needed was a CA driver's license that proved I was the kids' mother.