As you already know, I've been in the process of getting my paperwork ready to be filed, so that I can have a second passport. Given what's been going on in this country lately, I will eventually finish the application process and get this task completed. However, I don't want to deal with complications imposed by our electronic security state when I travel overseas and use this passport. With this being said, I want to make sure that I know how and when to use (and refer to) the second passport when traveling to the destination country from the USA.
Things are starting to get bad in the USA, as this administration is notoriously sloppy in the way it does things. It has deported legal aliens without notice, sending some to Salvadoran prisons on the claim that they are part of a criminal gang. In one case, a judge banned the deportation, but the person was deported anyway - an attempt by this administration to take power away from both the legislative and judicial branches of the government. As a result, I feel that I must soon make the effort to get this second passport while I can, and keep it in reserve for when I may need to use it. (As I've said before, it's time to get those "Letters of Transit" ready.)
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I drove to Cold Spring and met Maria there. Buying her lunch today was my way of saying thanks for all the times we got together, so that she could notarize something for me. We talked about current events, even though she is a Republican (aargh!) who hasn't written the Orange Snowflake off yet. Yet, she didn't push back when I described the fellow in Maryland who was deported in error, and is being illegally kept in an El Salvadoran prison. (I think more of her attitude has been influenced by the media she has consumed, combined with the problems caused by the left with them not living in the real world. But I digress. We then talked about trans issues, her not realizing what the snowflake's attacks on Trans medical treatment (puberty blockers and psychiatric therapy) for minors could cause, as well as issues regarding legal identification documents such as birth certificate, drivers license, and passport not reflecting the trans person's identified gender. Finally, we got to talk about family issues, and she told me about what's going on with her daughter and grandchildren. (I'm glad I'm not living her life.) I didn't know that her father passed away, and her siblings didn't even have the courtesy of telling her. (Shades of a story which happened to one trans person I know.)
Once done with lunch, I drove up to Poughkeepsie to browse the wares at Lane Bryant. Sadly, I couldn't find what I wanted in stock, and will need to order it online sometime in the near future. On the way home, RQS called to tell me about problems with the tax lady. It seems like the tax lady didn't e-file the return like she was supposed to do. Hopefully, after a couple of blistering phone calls that this problem has been resolved. If RQS owes any fines, I said that the tax lady should pay them for her lack of attention to her work. I'm glad that my taxes are over and done with for the year....
