My Own Journey To The West!

[puddingcat]

I've told O I'll do the Great Race and passed on munchkinott's link to the Corvette dealer.

The track day is in Vegas! How cool is that! O's something of a poker player too; I'll just have to take along a corset & distract everyone else ;)

Good grief. I'm excited enough about this that I'm not worried any more about spending a week with someone who'll be an ex-work friend and what he might think of me by the end.


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Addendum: Things not to say in the office, Part n=n+1.

H: My brother's getting married. Everybody's getting married except me.
Me: I'm not getitng married. I'm not even getting laid.

H laughed so much she cried. G (H's red haired sidekick) went scarlet.

Note to Self. Engage brain, *then* open mouth.

Comments

Huh?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If you have a non-biometric passport you need to apply for a visa before you go to the US.

Who says this? Link, please.
You don't (just checked with a colleague who was there last month). It needs to be machine readable, though.

Re: Huh?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I meant chipped, not biometric. D'oh. The kind I haven't got - but there are two kinds I haven't got!

Re: Huh?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Same thing, the biometric info is stored on the chip.
OK, I haven't checked any British sources but as long as a German passport was issued before October 2005 (which mine is), you don't need a biometric/chipped one. I would assume this is the case for British ones (and other visa waiver countries), too.

Re: Huh?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ah - machine readable and chip are also not the same thing. (How much more complicated can they make this? Is there some kind of ritual where you have to hop around the airport singing a song patting your head and rubbing your belly as well?) link
You can get in visa-free if you have a machine readable piece of text at the bottom with chevrons on it, and I do.

Now I am trying to remember what I read that convinced me only chipped ones were machine-readable so I can ask them to disambiguate.

Re: Huh?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The machine readable ones are those that have a laminated page with all the important info on it.
Watch next time, they open it and run the bottom of the laminated bit through a slot like you would with a card with magnetic strip.

You're right, chips are machine readable as well, which is indeed ambiguous.