A Good Day for Pete
Apr. 28th, 2005 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Three wild catches!
1. "It had a big Sticker on it that said 'Take me' so who was I not to take it!"
This is the book that won me the prize for "Best Themed Release" at the Christchurch Bookcrossing Convention, when I released "In the Pond" in the pond in the location where we held our Flashmob. A month later and it's picked up!
I've been Bookcrossing for over two years, but I still get a thrill when my books are found after a wild release!
2. One from Archer City.
3. And one from San Francisco.
Don't know what it is about SF that attracts Aussies....
Yes I do. It's a beautiful city, and Australians have a particular eye for beauty.
And at one stage I was talking to two different BXers on two different chat boards.
FuShMuSh with the latest two in the Grafton crime bookring - I haven't finished the last one yet. Mercy! I tried to talk her into coming to Brisbane, but she's fresh married and wants to buy a house, which in sydney is not cheap.
And Bookczuk helping me get through the day.
I booked my room for the Brisbane convention. which it looks like there will be several Bookcrossers at the old People's Palace.
And I sent off my green US departure card to an address in London, Kentucky. US immigration had neglected to remove the stub from my passport in Los Angeles - we'd all been waved through so long as we had a passport in our hands - and I was concerned that this would cause problems when i went back, as they might wonder how I'd got out of the country last time. So I asked Customs in Sydney and they said Dunno, ring the embassy, and the embassy had a useless telephone menu system and I wrote an email and had just about resigned myself to going over to the embassy when i got a response. Send the form to Kentucky, keep a record of what you sent. So I scanned the relevant pages and printed it on the back of the email printout, tucked in my passport in case I run into trouble next time around.
If they do this to whole jumboloads at a time, they must have holes in their computer records, unless they are getting the data from elsewhere. Not sure how they'd do that - my passport got swiped through the checkin desk in San Francisco, so American Airlines knew who i was, but would US immigration be able to correlate that with an international departure from LAX? At Los Angeles I arrived at the same lounge I was to depart from and nobody looked at my passport.
Oh well, I guess I'll find out next time! Probably when I do the Toronto trip next year.
Three wild catches!
1. "It had a big Sticker on it that said 'Take me' so who was I not to take it!"
This is the book that won me the prize for "Best Themed Release" at the Christchurch Bookcrossing Convention, when I released "In the Pond" in the pond in the location where we held our Flashmob. A month later and it's picked up!
I've been Bookcrossing for over two years, but I still get a thrill when my books are found after a wild release!
2. One from Archer City.
3. And one from San Francisco.
Don't know what it is about SF that attracts Aussies....
Yes I do. It's a beautiful city, and Australians have a particular eye for beauty.
And at one stage I was talking to two different BXers on two different chat boards.
FuShMuSh with the latest two in the Grafton crime bookring - I haven't finished the last one yet. Mercy! I tried to talk her into coming to Brisbane, but she's fresh married and wants to buy a house, which in sydney is not cheap.
And Bookczuk helping me get through the day.
I booked my room for the Brisbane convention. which it looks like there will be several Bookcrossers at the old People's Palace.
And I sent off my green US departure card to an address in London, Kentucky. US immigration had neglected to remove the stub from my passport in Los Angeles - we'd all been waved through so long as we had a passport in our hands - and I was concerned that this would cause problems when i went back, as they might wonder how I'd got out of the country last time. So I asked Customs in Sydney and they said Dunno, ring the embassy, and the embassy had a useless telephone menu system and I wrote an email and had just about resigned myself to going over to the embassy when i got a response. Send the form to Kentucky, keep a record of what you sent. So I scanned the relevant pages and printed it on the back of the email printout, tucked in my passport in case I run into trouble next time around.
If they do this to whole jumboloads at a time, they must have holes in their computer records, unless they are getting the data from elsewhere. Not sure how they'd do that - my passport got swiped through the checkin desk in San Francisco, so American Airlines knew who i was, but would US immigration be able to correlate that with an international departure from LAX? At Los Angeles I arrived at the same lounge I was to depart from and nobody looked at my passport.
Oh well, I guess I'll find out next time! Probably when I do the Toronto trip next year.
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RE: US Customs
Date: 2005-04-28 03:07 pm (UTC)(no offense to you of course, but to our slacking US "security")
I feel ever so much safer now that Homeland Security is in charge.....
Re: US Customs
Date: 2005-04-28 04:44 pm (UTC)Re: RE: US Customs
Date: 2005-04-28 06:51 pm (UTC)The big hurdle is getting in in the first place. Easy for people from the global North, difficult for others, who are suspected (with good reason) of wanting to move here permanently.
To my mind the answer lies not in erecting larger and more impenetrable fences to the extent that long checks are required when crossing borders, everyone needs an ID card and the government monitors everything, but in making sure that conditions in the rest of the world are comfortable enough that people don't feel an urge to leave their cultural homeland and never come back.