Present Perfect

Life

Yesterday I spent half of my day trying to get my NIE: the little number I need identifying me as a foreigner living in Spain. I need it to get an actual contract.

Anyway, I spent close to 90 minutes in a 30 people queue at the police office to receive the number I had applied to get more than a month ago. When I got to see a human being dealing cards, I noticed a guy next to me who didn't seem to get his number. It quickly dawned on me that he had applied for his NIE on the same day in the same police station as me, and I smelled trouble.

A woman behind us had the same problem. The three of us didn't seem to exist in the computer, and the office where we got our number from had a broken telephone line. We spent a good half hour awaiting our fate. Then we were told we had to go back to the first office, somehow they didn't send on the forms.

One taxi ride later, after three hours, we finally had our magic number.

On the way out, I saw some nice graffiti text:

Reminds me of how I used to feel way back when.

gnome-blog

Joined the crowd in testing this thing. Why it is important enough to be an applet is beyond me. It's just an app to me. Anyway, I packaged it for fedora.us.

Here's the Fedora 1 fedora.us package, RH80 and RH9 packages live close by as well. Follow its path through fedora.us.

Seth's original spec had a copy of the Rhythmbox changelog in it, hehe :) As well as some other unnecessary things. So if you are able to read this, Seth: thanks for the little program.

Life Yesterday I spent half of my day trying to get my NIE: the little number I need identifying me as a foreigner living in Spain. I need it to...