Got my picture taken, got 3 colleagues to be guarantor and friends, lined up at the Passport Office on Wednesday. “Did you know your current passport doesn’t expire until 2008?”

Even though I had mentioned getting a passport several times and I looked for it and couldn’t find it — assuming it was expired and shredded. Turns out my wife had “hidden” it for safekeeping. Sure enough, there’s another year and half to go.

Sigh…