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I hate my printer. I'm trying to print out the passport renewal forms, but I don't print stuff all that often, and the nozzles seem to be clogged every time, so everything comes out illegible. Nine pages of garbage.
Mind you, it was given to me for free, so I can't complain (well, obviously I can, and have :) ). And when I do unclog the nozzles, it tends to work fine (if painfully slowly).
Now I have to find somewhere to get photos taken. I know there's a place downtown near where I used to work, but that's no help. I think there's a camera store a few minutes' walk north of where I work - I'll have to pop in there at lunch tomorrow and see if they do passport photos (I think most camera places do, no?).
It's my own stupid fault - I kept thinking to myself, "I must renew my passport before going to Dragon*Con," but I would never remember to actually print the forms until after I'd shut off my computer and gone to bed, or when I was out somewhere. Fortunately the government website says that if I take them to the office in person, I can get my passport back within two weeks. (I may have to get to the office at oh-dark-thirty in the morning to be reasonably certain of not having to wait in line, admittedly.)
And yes, all this passport renewal talk means that my birthday is coming up soon. Painfully soon. I don't normally talk about it (in fact, I was considering not talking about it at all) because I don't like acknowledging my birthday - the last one I went out of my way to do something about turned out to be a huge disappointment. Not that I'm bitter, if you know what I mean. ;) But it occurs to me that this one is kind of big. So I'm thinking that maybe I should do something a little special a week from this Saturday, which would be August 11. Problem is, I have a TCON Board of Directors meeting the next day (my actual birthday, but going out on a Sunday night is probably a bad idea), so it would probably be a good idea to have sobered up by then. ;)
So here's where I ask you, my friendslist, for input. Those of you who are in or near Toronto (unless you're willing to travel the requisite number of hours and/or cross the requisite number of oceans or borders to help me mourn turning 40) let me know if you'd be interested in a night on the town with me. I don't know what I want to do yet, though dinner would certainly be a part of it. Alcohol would be another part of it, I'm sure. (Getting sufficiently liquored up to enter the Best Legs Contest at Woody's might be amusing, if this were to happen on the Saturday night... hell, getting sufficiently liquored up to enter the Best Ass Contest on the Friday night would be even more amusing. Or possibly nauseating.) Maybe karaoke? Cosmic bowling? (Hm, I should probably get a session in before the new season starts in a month, though cosmic bowling probably isn't the best way to do that.)
Any suggestions?
Mind you, it was given to me for free, so I can't complain (well, obviously I can, and have :) ). And when I do unclog the nozzles, it tends to work fine (if painfully slowly).
Now I have to find somewhere to get photos taken. I know there's a place downtown near where I used to work, but that's no help. I think there's a camera store a few minutes' walk north of where I work - I'll have to pop in there at lunch tomorrow and see if they do passport photos (I think most camera places do, no?).
It's my own stupid fault - I kept thinking to myself, "I must renew my passport before going to Dragon*Con," but I would never remember to actually print the forms until after I'd shut off my computer and gone to bed, or when I was out somewhere. Fortunately the government website says that if I take them to the office in person, I can get my passport back within two weeks. (I may have to get to the office at oh-dark-thirty in the morning to be reasonably certain of not having to wait in line, admittedly.)
And yes, all this passport renewal talk means that my birthday is coming up soon. Painfully soon. I don't normally talk about it (in fact, I was considering not talking about it at all) because I don't like acknowledging my birthday - the last one I went out of my way to do something about turned out to be a huge disappointment. Not that I'm bitter, if you know what I mean. ;) But it occurs to me that this one is kind of big. So I'm thinking that maybe I should do something a little special a week from this Saturday, which would be August 11. Problem is, I have a TCON Board of Directors meeting the next day (my actual birthday, but going out on a Sunday night is probably a bad idea), so it would probably be a good idea to have sobered up by then. ;)
So here's where I ask you, my friendslist, for input. Those of you who are in or near Toronto (unless you're willing to travel the requisite number of hours and/or cross the requisite number of oceans or borders to help me mourn turning 40) let me know if you'd be interested in a night on the town with me. I don't know what I want to do yet, though dinner would certainly be a part of it. Alcohol would be another part of it, I'm sure. (Getting sufficiently liquored up to enter the Best Legs Contest at Woody's might be amusing, if this were to happen on the Saturday night... hell, getting sufficiently liquored up to enter the Best Ass Contest on the Friday night would be even more amusing. Or possibly nauseating.) Maybe karaoke? Cosmic bowling? (Hm, I should probably get a session in before the new season starts in a month, though cosmic bowling probably isn't the best way to do that.)
Any suggestions?
