[Jeff Higgins]

I let my last one expire because I was not planning on travelling overseas in the next few years, and didn't want to hassle getting a new one. Lo and behold, I got sucked back into travelling for work because we are short handed and airlines are flying everything they have, and damaging them at a rate commensurate with that. (I provide engineering support on repair operations.) Anyway, we have a crew going out in two weeks, and I was told to go. "Heh heh heh", I thought, "there is no way in hell to even get a passport that fast...", so they can't make me go. Neener neener neener...

Wrong. One day turn-around at the Federal Office Building in Seattle, with an itinerary and note from our director of operations. Curses, foiled again... I'm off to Cardiff to babysit a strut mod... yuk...