So, the various document requests I have made to build a Canadian citizenship by descent application came through surprisingly quickly, and my project today was to print and organize everything so I can ship it out tomorrow.
The exception to today’s print job is the 11×17 pages with census records (bolstering presence in Canada and family relationships since timely birth registrations are a relatively modern thing), which I had sent over to the store formerly known as Kinko’s for printing.
I didn’t take a close enough look at those printouts. Two of them partially printed and then turned into big black boxes.
Also, the binder clips that Amazon was supposed to deliver yesterday weren’t in the box.
And for the final annoyance – I don’t trust USPS locally, so I’m using FedEx to ship the documents off to Nova Scotia. I had to reconfirm my distrust of USPS when I discovered the shipment will cost over triple the application fee.
(Admittedly, the application fee is surprisingly low. But since legally it’s just “an application for a citizenship certificate” rather than “an application for citizenship”, I guess it makes sense.)
Frack. Just had to deliver 2 “oops updates” to a Very Important Exhibit to the executives, because they were asking me to make multiple super-fast changes on the fly in a complex workbook late at night and I f***ed it up. One I caught and updated, but one they did this morning.
Doesn’t help that I don’t have any peer reviewer except the executives.
can’t tell if seasonal allergies, a guest dog at the house who sheds a ton, or both - but the eyes feel like they are filled w gravel today.
i did allergy shots for the seasonal things and have not really had symptoms in years. but when I have them, other people are really suffering and I have not noticed that. so I am likely blaming the guest dog who leaves in 2 days.
I’ve spent the better part of today, so far, dealing with fallout from numbers in a quarterly report I produce causing an internal risk metric to fail.
This quarter is the first time this report has relied on some changes we’ve been working on for the better part of a year.
I have had to send to several people copies of exhibits circulated months ago which discussed the changes and described the effects. The failure seems to be that nobody thought to consider the downstream effects.
The stylist who cuts my hair is fully booked this week and off on vacation next week, but I need a cut nowish. Gonna see if my gf’s stylist is free this week.
Coordinating students. They can’t just get with the program.
Four day fishing trip. pickup three Waterloo students at 5am and head north on a 9 hour drive. SL is in a yank to get there.
except now two of the three students want pickup in Toronto because they’re not in Waterloo this term. did they not think this through?
well they’re only 15 minutes off the highway. ok, 15 in, 15 back. times two. plus pickup. we just added an hour and a half in the way up.
On the way home,it’s the Monday of a holiday and you can’t go near Toronto so we take the back way home. if I have to drop off in Toronto I’ll add hours to the trip home….after a 9 hour drive.
Yeah, that was never the arrangement when I was that age -
“We can do a group trip from A to B and back. If you live somewhere between A and B we can pick you up on the way (with very little detour), otherwise meet us at A.”
