Thought I would update my immigration status, lest you be worried that I am soon to be carried off in the night by dark-suited goons. I recently received a letter from the USCIS to let me know my conditional permanent residence has been extended a year pending processing of my application to become a permanent permanent resident. The letter says it will be a minimum of 330 days before I hear anything from them and to, basically, leave them the hell alone for a year. The processing times page currently shows them working on cases filed in June so I might hear from them earlier, who knows.

In real immigration news, the White House this week published a Fact Sheet: Securing America Through Immigration Reform which surprisingly contains some very good ideas. I hope that many of the items contained therein come to fruition.

This really is turning into quite the year: yesterday, the group I am contracted to announced they were terminating everyone’s contract at the end of the year and would only be rehiring some of us. Given where I think this group is moving towards I am pretty confident that my name won’t be on that list so I’ve no idea what I will be doing come January 1 (well, other than singing Auld Lang Syne at midnight). The company I work for will probably keep me on doing something for them but, for now, I’ve really no idea. We are supposed to here by the end of the week as to who stays and who goes.

This weekend was quite special for variations of weather. We had a day where it was in the high 70s, then a day and night with 30 mph winds. Last night it was down to 36F at 3 in the morning (I know this because I was up trying to persuade our large dog to let the little dog into the kennel so it didn’t freeze it’s bottom off).

Look, I’m British, so of course I’m going to talk about the weather!

I love turkey. I love jelly - or rather, for my American readers, I love jell-o - so why not combine the two with your very own turkey shaped jelly! Who wants some?!

$5000 for an xbox 360?? wtf?!?!