Today I was going to either get to work late, or maybe just work from home. My mom had a call from SSA and I had to be around to translate. Unfortunately, that led to some questions about her green card and we had to go see la migra. It’s always a nice way to spend a day, panicked about having to go see INS. Even better, we also had to go through a metal detector and have our bags put through an x-ray machine. Twice, since we also had to go to the Social Security office.

The federales also have a new way of scheduling appointments. Instead of just having the numbered pull tabs and a sign that says, “Now serving number 78,” they have weird computerized gizmos I couldn’t understand. My degree is in Computer Science, not the oddities of bureaucracies.

Oh, and Bank of America gets thumbs up for letting us do our banking the way we wanted to do it. Wells Fargo, not so much. When the primary account holder of a Wells Fargo bank account dies, he can’t be taken off the account. You just have to close the account and start a new one. It wouldn’t sound so bad if the other bank had the same policy, but Bank of America was much easier to deal with (even though they took so long to fix the account).