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... to the buffet at the Fiesta on Friday.

Other than that, our time was filled with errands, details and work.

On Friday, we almost forgot to close Suka's bank account before she went to work. In fact, she ended up several minutes late because we remembered at the last minute.

... and overabundant versions of the dialogs Tarantino is famous for. It has the everyone-dies shoot outs. It has the usual twists and turns and Tarantino storytelling, not done as well as in the past. In the end it's a fantastical romp through a very well documented period of history with results that have nothing to do with the history we know. In the end it felt like an overly long and pointless expression of revisionist Jewish rage.

... s child she was driving home from school that day. Emma was a really cute kid, adopted from China when she was two and now in the second grade. She was very well spoken and patient with the ensuing events.

At the BMV, we were told that we had to pay a fee at the courthouse and that the inspection needed to be re-done because it was older than 30 days, even though the inspector said it should be fine ...

... didn't used to charge for water, but a year or so ago, CUC started charging, but water is still not an additional utility in the apartment.

Anyway, after a frustrating afternoon of work due to my inability to be more closely collaborative and stunningly slow network speeds that I later found out were likely due to my computer downloading updates for me, I decided to go to the going away dinner for a friend from the Hash. Actually, I was going to ...

... envelopes to discourage theft. As I walked out of the post office door, I started to get excited.

In the car, Suka opened the envelope, and there it was, her Green Card. Not really very green and replete with holographic security measures on the back, she is now officially a legal Permanent Resident of the United States of America!

We were in shock. It took a long time for it to feel real. We immediately decided to revive our dinner plans at PIC in celebration. We ate ...

In the morning, I worked at Coffee Care while Suka went to church. I joined them for lunch afterward, bulgogi at Gwansanim's house.

We went to see "Night at the Museum 2" in the early afternoon. It really wasn't sufficiently original compared to the first one to be that interesting. Most of the funny parts were in the previews and the story wasn't much.

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... sign. Amid all of this, we're expecting the Advanced Parole to come through any day now. Their estimate is 60-90 days on the receipt and 3 months on the web site. A lawyer I'm consulting said 3-4.5 months. We're past the 60 day mark. Three months will be in mid-March. We'll see what happens. Which brings us to the present. She's arranged for her job at Global to be covered in the mornings while I'm here. She'll work afternoons at Global and ...

... pickled lobo (giant radish) and garlic. Other than that, the variety of kimchi on Saipan is limited. First of all, this is the first time for me to see a dedicated, built-for-purpose kimchi refrigerator. We're talking something the size of a small chest freezer with detailed controls for temperature and humidity. Suka says smaller versions are common in many Korean households and ...

... managed to really confuse people so that they missed the trail, ran the trail backwards, and other various mishaps. Her last trail was so bad that the criticism at Religion made her cry. From the details I've heard, it was a well-deserved tongue lashing. Needless to say, everyone was a little skeptical and apprehensive about this trail, especially when it started in the vicinity of one of the previous debacles. I am happy to say ...