Posts from ‘January, 2003’

I really don't want Jess to have to sit on a bus alone from Buffalo to Dallas. And I really don't want her to have to wait on the Canadian side of the border in the event that she gets denied again. I'm considering calling my Uncle that lives near Buffalo and seeing if he'll [...]

Je ne peux pas écrire en français.

Je suis un peu impatient ce matin. Peut-être c'est parce que Jess sera ici bientôt. Ou peut-être c'est parce que de le projet je suis faire au travail. Ou peut-être c'est de tous les deux. Sans se soucier, je suis impatient. J'essaye enlever toute la confusion et inquiétude dans ma vie. Il n'y a rien [...]

Against my better judgement, I am using gpg to decrypt a symmectric encrypted message with the IDEA algorithm. I need gpg to be as quiet as possible, and therefore have specified the –no-verbose, the –quiet and the –no-tty options. However, gpg insists on informing me that it is "assuming IDEA encrypted data". I attempted [...]

Je vais écrire en Français de temps en temps pour m'aider à apprendre. Ceci prend beaucoup de temps si l'écriture sera courte. Si vous parlez Français, corrigez mes erreurs, s'il vous plait. Actuellement, J'ai un vocabulaire très simple. Je dois rechercher la plupart des mots que J'emploie. Pour m'aider à apprendre à parler meilleur, Je [...]

The company I work for receives documents and order from other competing companies that provide the same services we do. This cooperation is mandated by our government. Currently, these documents are recieved via a buggy process involving 1200 baud modems. Yes, that's right, 1200 baud. At any rate, I decided that it was high time [...]

Our situation is looking up, slightly. My mom in New York has a friend that works Customs at the border. I spoke with him for a while regarding policies and procedures. He didn't know everything, as he doesn't work for INS, but he did assure me that, as long as she doesn't have a criminal [...]

On September 5th, 2002, my girlfriend (a Canadian citizen) flew to see me (a United States citizen) in Dallas, TX on a one way ticket. She was admitted without any problems as a visitor. She returned to Canada in December and I went to visit her for Christmas. On December 31st we attempted to travel [...]

As a constituent of the 30th Congressional District, I contacted my Congresswoman's, Eddie Bernice Johnson, office this morning to see if they can help me in getting some ansers from INS. Her office informed me that they wiil be putting some paperwork in the mail today for me to fill out and send back. I [...]

Jess' Passport is in.