Passport's back...
Mar. 25th, 2006 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpSome time ago, I sent my passport off (a) to get some additional pages attached to the thing, as the normal set was accumulating endorsements of various kinds at an alarming rate, and (b) to renew my visa for Russia. I got the thing back late the past week, and only happened to notice it among the rest of the paperwork at the store.
I was debating whether the Passport Office was actually going to add pages or simply issue me a new passport, with all the biometric goodies and the RFID chip. The smart money said no, as I still have about 7 years left to go before my book expires; on the other hand, considering how much was being paid to add pages, and how enthusiastic folks sound about fielding the new, high-tech passports, they might as well have issued a new one.
I got my old book back, with a 24-page supplement incorporated between the last page and the back cover, so now I'm good to go for quite a number of additional trips.
My visa for Russia, for some reason, was not issued for a full year, but some fraction of that period. I suspect it has to do with the fact that I got my free-of-AIDS test last October, and that after a certain grace period, the end date of any visa application made with said free-of-AIDS certificate is fixed at one year plus the grace period. But that's only my guess.
I got the go-ahead to purchase airline tickets for the April job, which I've done and about which I've ininformed my client. There's a pile of documents to review for that job and a pile of terminology to come up to speed in. It should go well.
Galina's back from the store and napping in the next room. I packed up four boxes of books and went through a bunch of papers. I also found the install disks for Arabesque's Ecco PIM, and tried installing them just to see if they still work. I seem to recall Ecco was a very popular program back about 10-12 years ago, but like a lot of programs with an enthusiastic following, it was bought by someone (NetManage?) and quietly taken out back of the bit barn and put down.
(Actually, there's a tale there: you can actually still download a functional version of Ecco, but it's unsupported.)
Back to rummaging.
Cheers...
I was debating whether the Passport Office was actually going to add pages or simply issue me a new passport, with all the biometric goodies and the RFID chip. The smart money said no, as I still have about 7 years left to go before my book expires; on the other hand, considering how much was being paid to add pages, and how enthusiastic folks sound about fielding the new, high-tech passports, they might as well have issued a new one.
I got my old book back, with a 24-page supplement incorporated between the last page and the back cover, so now I'm good to go for quite a number of additional trips.
My visa for Russia, for some reason, was not issued for a full year, but some fraction of that period. I suspect it has to do with the fact that I got my free-of-AIDS test last October, and that after a certain grace period, the end date of any visa application made with said free-of-AIDS certificate is fixed at one year plus the grace period. But that's only my guess.
I got the go-ahead to purchase airline tickets for the April job, which I've done and about which I've ininformed my client. There's a pile of documents to review for that job and a pile of terminology to come up to speed in. It should go well.
Galina's back from the store and napping in the next room. I packed up four boxes of books and went through a bunch of papers. I also found the install disks for Arabesque's Ecco PIM, and tried installing them just to see if they still work. I seem to recall Ecco was a very popular program back about 10-12 years ago, but like a lot of programs with an enthusiastic following, it was bought by someone (NetManage?) and quietly taken out back of the bit barn and put down.
(Actually, there's a tale there: you can actually still download a functional version of Ecco, but it's unsupported.)
Back to rummaging.
Cheers...
