Passports are great. They're useful id and they're reminders of where you've been. I have no firm travel plans, but I'm just happy knowing it's handy. So many possibilities!
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Sep 30, 2015 7:37:23 am PDT #6302 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maria - Sep 30, 2015 7:50:21 am PDT #6303 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Ah, I have to renew mine. It expired 15 Sep. My Italian one is still good through 2017, though that won't help me when I need to come home.
Kat, I'm sorry that it's a struggle. I hope viable solutions present themselves soon, and the right hand starts to know what the left hand is doing.
Juliebird, I'm sorry that people have no tact. I don't see why you should hold your tongue anymore.
Hil R. - Sep 30, 2015 7:59:56 am PDT #6304 of 30003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And, yes, she was especially shocked about Canada. "Even Canada? What if you took a Canadian cruise, you'd need a passport?" In a very that's-nuts tone of voice.
Well, to be fair, needing a passport for Canada is relatively new.
Connie Neil - Sep 30, 2015 8:00:32 am PDT #6305 of 30003
brillig
A project for my vacation at the end of October, along with early voting. And having someone poke around at the furnace under the house--though that may be earlier so I can get it out of the way.
-t - Sep 30, 2015 8:25:48 am PDT #6306 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, to be fair, needing a passport for Canada is relatively new.
That's true, but it has also been covered a whole lot in the news in the past decade or whatever it's been. I myself always have to think, oh right, that's changed, but it's not new information to be outraged about.
Kat - Sep 30, 2015 8:26:20 am PDT #6307 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I bought a powerball ticket this morning. But I couldn't remember if it were powerball or something else. Der.
I am not allowed to access the powerball website at work because it's been flagged as gambling. So true.
Feeling less tragic today but still overwhelmed.
Jesse - Sep 30, 2015 8:40:23 am PDT #6308 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's true, but it has also been covered a whole lot in the news in the past decade or whatever it's been. I myself always have to think, oh right, that's changed, but it's not new information to be outraged about.
I can never get over how outraged people get in the airport security line when their full-size shampoo bottles get taken away.
Sue - Sep 30, 2015 9:17:34 am PDT #6309 of 30003
hip deep in pie
I can never get over how outraged people get in the airport security line when their full-size shampoo bottles get taken away.
Yes, or their giant bottles of water.
We now have 10-year passports, instead of five. five more years to fill more pages. OTOH, I'm stuck with my passport picture for that long. Though this one's not the worst. That was two passports ago.
flea - Sep 30, 2015 10:33:14 am PDT #6310 of 30003
information libertarian
As a Certified Passport Acceptance Agent, I can tell you that people think ALL SORTS of crazy things about passports. My favorite is the people who think the person applying for the passport doesn't need to be present. No, you cannot just apply for a passport for your spouse because he's so busy, or for your teenager because she hates to get up early.
Connie Neil - Sep 30, 2015 10:46:44 am PDT #6311 of 30003
brillig
people think ALL SORTS of crazy things about passports.
I sympathize. I was the Social Security office, and one woman spent twenty minutes yelling at the clerk that she didn't need to have her daughter's birth certificate because it should be enough that she knew when her daughter was born.