New Year's Resolutions

Well, 2013 has now begun and it looks like I'm faced with having to make at least one New Year's Resolution:  to blog on a more continuous basis!  I'll admit that part of the issue is that I have a personal aversion to telling the world what I'm doing because, to some extent, I feel like it's none of their business.  However, the world has changed since I was in school and Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms are some of the fastest-growing marketing systems in the world!  If we want to have an effective online presence that means communicating with the public using their preferred methods; and that means I have to start telling the world how my day is going!

So what am I doing today?  Well, President and CEO Don Emde is headed back to his vacation home in Phoenix, AZ. within the next week or so (I think I heard him mumble something about -30C being too cold).  However, he and I both carry L1 visas so we can perform our duties in the USA as well as in Canada; since his will expire shortly I am tasked with filing his renewal paperwork.  It will probably take a good chunk of my day, if not the whole thing, but it has to be done.  At least US Customs & Border Protection has requested that I cut-down on the amount of paperwork I send:  that should make it easier this year than last year :)

EDIT:  I actually managed to get the whole application done in 1 day!  That's definitely a personal speed record!  As a hint for anyone else who has a work visa, you can definitely speed up the process by using a smartphone travel app.  We use BlackBerry Travel, so I just had to get a print-out of Don's "past trips" and I had all of his entry & exit dates.  Normally those can take hours (if not days) to work out.