Citizenship interview
News ·Thursday October 25, 2007 @ 01:07 EDT (link)
20071022: Bad driver: ~1030, Red Toyota Tacoma, WA B07534A, passing on Novelty, passed me and another car, just a low-down queue-jumping varmint.
20071015: USCIS citizenship interview: fairly painless; got there at my appointed time, took a seat upstairs in a (clean and fairly quiet) waiting area, was called in good time (Honey couldn't go back); the immigration officer was an Asian woman, mid-30s perhaps. She asked to see only a few pieces of documentation that I'd brought: a copy of a mortgage payment with both our names on it, income taxes perhaps, our marriage certificate, my passport, asked a few questions from the list, had me write a sentence (admitting it was a bit foolish to ask a Canadian to write English, but that it was part of the procedure). After that she checked a box, told me I'd passed, and gave me a receipt and set up a date for my oath ceremony (which I made sure was after Honey returned from her trip).
20071016: To my wife (with thanks to Don Williams):
Sometimes you may think I take you for granted
And granted, sometimes maybe I do
Cause I've grown so used to you lying next to me
That I wouldn't want to live if you didn't love me
No I wouldn't want to get up in the morning if you weren't there
To kiss me and start my day off right
And to be waiting when I get home with loving just for me
No I wouldn't want to live if you didn't love me
It's love that makes the world go round
And my love for you just grows with leaps and bounds
Cause you know just what to do when the world has turned all blue
And I wouldn't want to live if you didn't love me
20071017: DVD player (Onkyo DV-CP720) died. Opened it up, found the disk wasn't spinning; removed the laser guard ("do not look into laser with remaining eye"...), determined the laser/motor unit was a KHM-280AAA, made by Sony. King Audio/Video in Redmond was able to replace the motor (when I brought it in, I told the guy I thought it was the motor; he asked why I thought so, told him I'd opened it, laser seemed fine; he remained skeptical); charged a little over $100, which is better than replacing it. Dropped off Wednesday, picked up Thursday (bit of a windstorm, but not very bad; nothing compared to last December).
20071019: Took Honey to the airport to go to WV for 3 weeks to visit her parents; we're visiting my parents over Christmas.
20071019: Rainy.... Down to 28 (non-M2) bugs, from ~45. Also fixed a few M2s.
20071020: Fixed D100 date: it was a year (-), a day (+), and about 2 minutes (-) off, which isn't too bad, since I can still figure out when photos were taken: anything older than this date has to be adjusted a year forward, a day back, and 2 minutes forward.
20071021: (Early morning:) Played around with MythTV sources ("ebuild fetch/unpack/compile") but found that sorting episodes by original air date does what I want without modifying any code.
20071022: Finished Ender's Game, started Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card).
20071023: Finally checked in "streams" (IStream etc.) code to "coauth" branch on DROBINS4 (took a while to get a working build); synced and built on DROBINS3, which made my setup warnings go away; qtests passed, except for same error BB saw with the zoom dialog (and IGX thumbnail generation, but it always has issues).
20071024: Still running my daily mile.
