Long Weekend

The weekends seem so much longer when you spend most of your time away from home. On Saturday we went to San Antonio for me to renew my Green Card. I had earlier filled and printed out the .PDF application but I still needed the three-quarter profile pictures. Kinko's refused to take them since "they all get rejected" and recommended Fox Photo or some such place. So we went by one of those and they said the knew what they were doing and even had the INS list of instructions. They took my pictures and we went off to San Antonio.

It took us a while to find the INS office (it's in a strip mall) but there weren't too many people waiting and we had brought our books with us. Eventually they called my name and the agent looked at my pictures and said they were not right. I could either take my chance and they'd most likely be rejected or I could get them retaken. Since I'd like to avoid another trip to San Antonio I got another set of pictures at the "IMMIGRATION" place right next to the INS office. It's a little business that helps people fill out their applications for, I'm sure, a hefty fee. Their pictures were perfect, however, and not too expensive. So now I should be getting a renewed Green Card within the next six months. BTW, the INS center had none of the security precautions that you now see at most other federal offices - kind of refreshing, really.

On the way back from San Antonio we stopped at the outlet malls in San Marcos. We spent too much time there, but actually bought useful stuff - and thanks to the Lenox store our flatware is now complete. We ended up at Meredith and Michael's to pick up Homer where we enjoyed a pizza and I napped through Frailty before we headed home.

Sunday was way lazy, but we had a blast at our neighborhood post-wedding party and then got to see Greg and Emily's new house. Way, way cool!