I’ve finally cleaned up the CSS mess that is IE5.2 for this blog, while I was waiting for my flight to Phoenix in Newark. Now, this blog should look more or less the same in IE5.2, Gecko-based browsers (Netscape 7, Mozilla, Camino, etc.), or WebCore-based browsers (Safari and OmniWeb 4.5). I’ve also tidied up some old entries which have funky fonts.

JIT=Just In Time. First originate (for me at least) in Java, as in the JIT compiler.

Kind of have a new meaning for me today. I flew cross country from New York to Portland, OR today and it seems that I got out of town JIT! I avoided the power outage back in New York area which also affect my apartment. Of course Leah is not happy as she has no light, no phone (our phone is cordless so need power to work), no TV, no internet, and most important of all no A/C!

Hopefully, power will be back by tomorrow and Leah won’t need to endure another dark and hot night.

I’ve been having some trouble with this poll thing so I moved it to the side bar and make it into a monthly poll.

Let me know if this poll thing works for you. I can’t seem to vote and see the result. It keeps going back to the voting page rather than take me to the result page.

Just a few days after we received our Employment Authorization Card from INS, the Advance Parole Notices also arrived on our door step! Woo hoo! So now we have the same rights as Green Card holders, just waiting for the final approval from INS.

Leah has applied for her SSN today and hopefully (fingers crossed) she will be looking for jobs as well.

Our Employment Authorization Cards arrived from INS this Monday. This means we are one more step closer to obtaining our Green Card! Hurray! The interesting thing is that Leah can now, in theory, get any job she wants, while I am still stuck with my current job until the Green Card is issued to me. This should happen around next summer. Even then I may have to fulfill the contractual obligation I have with my company, i.e. stay on for another two years so they can recoup the legal fee. To be honest, I can’t wait till the day I can start looking for a new job. Not that my current employer doesn’t look after me well but my philosophy is not to stay at one job for too long. One can’t get too comfortable, otherwise I will never move up.