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Nick Kirsch

high-tech

realizing i wasn’t that tired, i decided to get RSS/RDF working for the family journals. i found this sweet open-source command-line rss2email program and this nifty php rss example and now all the family journals are accessible via the RSS/RDF feed. except for Zack, who continues to use a manual journal. he hasn’t updated it in months anyway, so… the cool thing about this diary post is that the crontab will fire off the r2e software and i’ll get an email with this entry. ;P

that didn't last long...

a racoon has found Bailey’s entrance. so i cannot leave the window open all the time. she’s going to have to learn to wait until i’m around to let her in and out.

the steps

another good guide. it says i should begin as soon as possible. i’ll start tomorrow.

so confusing

I think this website is a good guide for me to follow to get the fiancee visa started. I just hope I haven’t worried Eriko too much.

immigration

it is quite confusing. there are a variety of different options we could do, but the one which seems the least risky and provides the most comfortable experiences is for Eriko and I to be legally married next August. i’ll have to apply for the fiance visa early next year and she’ll use it to enter the country after our honeymoon, which will follow our symbolic ceremony in Nagoya. if that is what we do, i hope it works out perfectly.