ehm well, yes....

so, today's horoscope:
don't make any judgements today, tomorrow may look quite different.

i have a feeling my horoscope's are always a day late. yesterday's desperation has turned into something quite the opposite by midnight today.

Here's what happened.

W's next morning, he and i are online while i'm trying to explain in short to a couple of online friends about what happened. Luckily, they are friends of the crazy kind, coming up with all sorts of illusions on how to fix this. illusions i say, because it all sounded too much, not like anythign that happens anywhere but in fairyland. we all know that we don't live there ;)

but sure, let them talk, come up with numbers to call, let them do, while we keep moping about, life;s gloomy and whatnot
to humour them, had W call around anyways. and presto, if he comes up with the money to pay off whta he owes the state, they might get it done in 2 weeks.

ok, next number
might be able to do it in a week, but haven't ever seen it go faster.

fine, next number, call your congressman. ok, called, they might do something, but need the money payed. So. on an average friday afternoon, where do you go for that amount of money? It appears to be that the answer is to my brother. The guy might be an eijit in the household, but his heart seems to be in the right place.

He came home from work early, cuz his sister was crying and needed a good chunk of money. In the mean time, we had found out, Western Union would do it immediate, so we could have it there on time. Western Union is in the local postal office, which, fortunatekly was opened until 6.

he went by car, i by bicylce in order to get to work after. halfway there, i get a call. "do you think i'll need my pass?" "yes, where is it, i'll go back" "i'm not sure, i'll drive back, you get the paperwork started" "ok, see you there"

"OK ma'am, how much can i wire?" "enough" "ok" [brother walks in] "here's my pass, can i get the money out to wire it?" "sure, what's your pin code?" "i don't know, here's my pass and my passport, isn't that enough?" "no, we can only issue you with a low amount that's ot enough for what you want" "damn"

"ok, i'll go to work, we'll do it online later tonight when i get home" "no, i'll drive home real fast, see if i can find the code and get back on time" "sure, try, but i don't think you'll make it" "i'll try anyways"

"honey, we're working on it, you should have it today" "ok, i called, sent faxes, need to meet up or something, but we might be able to do it" "ok, i'll hurry to work now"

at work, phone rings a good 45 min later
"hey sis, it worked out, he's got the money" "what, the limit on your card was high enough?" "no, i got back to the post office in time" "omg, you did it" "yes, i sure did"

later on it became clear that they would be able to get the passport done, at the houston office on monday, so W's off to be there at 8am monday. they think, with the clearance, they should be able to hand out the passport in time.

all in all, like bro said "performing under pressure"
i think we passed that test too.

Much love and respect for those with cool and helpfull heads, Shiggity, Walaw, and, off course, mr money, Ron....... we owe you all