🧊🌬 and the bleak .....

 🧊🌬 ..... got a bit  bleaker
we dropped 10 degrees overnight
So ....

when we cheer ' WE the North ' well, sooner or later 
if you talk you gotta walk

as in ' if you talk the talk then you gotta walk the walk '
suffer baby
this is Buudhism right in your face
' Life is Dukha ' or bundle up your overcoat, it cold out there

the story. We are booked for a flight to the UK
lately, it was announced that Canadians need an eTA [ electronic ' visa ' ]

simple, order online takes minutes and receive by email in three days,

Yeah. Mistakes.
Started w/ the laptop. Well. It is faster using your phone. Download the App

Done. Photo your details page from your passport. Oops ! you have glare.
Redo. Success.

slide you phone over your passport to access your ' microchip '. Error. Do over. Did you remove the phone case. NO
Do over.

Done. Now take a photo using the App. twenty three minutes later. Success.

Pay. I tried using M .. s credit card [ we were doing hers next ]. Nope

Typed in my credit card. CIBC, is verifying your transaction. I must have hit the wrong icon
YES, you got it. Nada

OMG. 

Another day another dollar. TG , we are doing this early.

BTW. Figured out how to take the photo, much easier. 
we'll get her done.

Stay tuned

follow up. today. A few miscues. nothing major. two applications 15 min total
the application process can take 3 days more or less
occasionally, up to three weeks

at 2:21 P your application is in cue
at 2:35 P you are approved for travel in the UK

you do not need to take a copy. provide your passport at border control

Egad. our digital world. everything is easy

til it gets impossible