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Frustrations
Oct. 18th, 2009 04:05 pmWell, things have gone from okay to oh-shit in a hurry...
Fang is looking for a new home again, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control. So I have contacted Paws and Claws and hopefully they'll either have a home or space available for him at the shelter soon. In the meantime, he's continuing to use Petey as his Big Toy, the tail being the favorite plaything, but simply walking by Fang's little "playhouse" is enough reason for a blitzkrieg attack. (Petey has developed a nervous little tick... lol)
Not sure if I'll be going to the convention in Winnipeg now, either. Every website I visited (including the official one) kept saying it only took 3 weeks to get a passport card versus the 4-6 weeks to get a passport book. So, due to the financial timing, I opted for the card. Now, of course, they'd suddenly changed their tune. Both take 4-6 weeks to get. So, I called and asked if I could change from the "normal" processing to expedited. Well, if I had applied for the passport book, I could have. Because I applied for the passport card - you know, because of the shorter processing time? - I can't. So if the damn thing gets here in time, I'll be going to the convention. If not... I absolutely hate bureaucracies. I don't understand how it takes that long for a passport anyway. My God, in this day and age they can't check on things sooner than that?
Oh DOH - it's the government...
Then there was a used transit bus on eBay that would've been just perfect for converting, but it got bid up past my current affordability, so that was a little added icing to the cake...
So... add in over a month of rarely seeing the sun, temperatures 10-20 degrees below normal, and either rain or drizzle nearly every day, and I'm feeling like I should really just say fuck it all and take my truck and a tent and go flop on the beach for the next twenty years. I can live off the fish, right?
Yeah. It's been one of those times...
Fang is looking for a new home again, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control. So I have contacted Paws and Claws and hopefully they'll either have a home or space available for him at the shelter soon. In the meantime, he's continuing to use Petey as his Big Toy, the tail being the favorite plaything, but simply walking by Fang's little "playhouse" is enough reason for a blitzkrieg attack. (Petey has developed a nervous little tick... lol)
Not sure if I'll be going to the convention in Winnipeg now, either. Every website I visited (including the official one) kept saying it only took 3 weeks to get a passport card versus the 4-6 weeks to get a passport book. So, due to the financial timing, I opted for the card. Now, of course, they'd suddenly changed their tune. Both take 4-6 weeks to get. So, I called and asked if I could change from the "normal" processing to expedited. Well, if I had applied for the passport book, I could have. Because I applied for the passport card - you know, because of the shorter processing time? - I can't. So if the damn thing gets here in time, I'll be going to the convention. If not... I absolutely hate bureaucracies. I don't understand how it takes that long for a passport anyway. My God, in this day and age they can't check on things sooner than that?
Oh DOH - it's the government...
Then there was a used transit bus on eBay that would've been just perfect for converting, but it got bid up past my current affordability, so that was a little added icing to the cake...
So... add in over a month of rarely seeing the sun, temperatures 10-20 degrees below normal, and either rain or drizzle nearly every day, and I'm feeling like I should really just say fuck it all and take my truck and a tent and go flop on the beach for the next twenty years. I can live off the fish, right?
Yeah. It's been one of those times...
