Passport renewal line-ups

A few days ago I was playing in photoshop. The background is the brown of oak paneling of my desk. This little creature sits atop my flat LCD monitor. I filled the back ground using the paint bucket and did a bit of clone pattern stamping under the board to make it look like a skate board.

Today's chore of the day: We filled out our passport renewal forms and went down to the office where we thought we could go in and make an appointment, so we would know when to come back. Well, it works a bit different than that. If you are there early in the morning they give out numbers to as many people as they think will fill their day.. and give the numbers a time to return to the line up. Well the last numbers given out were in a line ahead of us. There were about a dozen of us waiting. We were told that we might get in by 4:30. We had been waiting about an hour and a quater and yeaaaaahhhh got in. We got finished in about 2 hours time. This is not bad considering some people were there first thing in the day and just got finished before we did. The line ups were longer at one time too. People were hiring street folks to stand in line for them while they went off and did other things. Its mad! The only problem aside from the wait in a line outside in the cold, was hisself's photo. BCAAA people took our passport photos. His had a big glare spot on his forehead from the flash. Now , he has to go have it redone and take it back down to Kelly and she will then send our renewals off to be processed. We should have them back in 3 weeks by express post, I understand. Then we have to see about getting our visa for Russia.