A certain irony

[da]

After my post yesterday, I was miffed to discover this morning that I can't apply for citizenship yet, after all.

Math error. Arrrrgh!

I got through being grumpy, though, and now I'm mostly a bit amused at my inability to add.


The rule is that you can apply for Canadian Citizenship if you've been a Permanent Resident in Canada for three of the previous four years. 1095 days in Canada.

Also, time from the last four years, before Permanent Residency was received, counts half-credit.

That's an easy problem, especially since there's a website to calculate the days between two dates. (I could code one of my own, but why bother? someone already did.)

Days = ((date today) - (date of PR)) + (((date of PR) - (4 years ago)) / 2)

You can pretty easily find the minimum number of days after you've gotten your PR card, that you can apply. Before you folks with OCD go and calculate it in your head: remember it's days in Canada.

Days that you were outside Canada are subtracted from the total. They mean it: every trip that includes a night away counts.

I have a nice tabulated list of where I was, when, and why, going back to April of 2002. It adds up to 136 days in the last four years. (Wanna see it? I didn't think so).

So, I figured it out in May. I was 110 days short, then. 110 days away was... mid September.

I forgot to count these days as half (because I was subtracting half a day from the other end; from 4 years ago before I got PR status). So right now I'm at 1074 days. My real date is early November. To be safe, I'll make it around the end of November.


'fraid I don't have any good closing to this post. But I figured I'd give y'all a nice big bowl of schadenfreude. Mmmmmm.... schadenfreude...

Comments

Re: Did someone cry Shadenfreude?

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Butter tarts are closer to a pecan pie than a shoo-fly pie. They don't use molasses. The recipe on boutell's website is my family's recipe.

I usually tell people that a butter tart is walnuts and raisins in a brown-sugar custard.

Re: Did someone cry Shadenfreude?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm not sure I've ever made a shoofly pie. I know I've made butter tarts, using somebody local's recipe.

The ones we have around here often don't have nuts at all, though that sounds scrumptious as well! :)

Welcome. :)

Re: Did someone cry Shadenfreude?

[opadit.livejournal.com]

No nuts? Blasphemy! Nuts should be left out only when you've run out or can't afford them.

It's currants, not raisins. They shouldn't be runny: they should be gooey, but not drippy-runny. They should never, ever be adulterated with butterscotch, marshmallows, or chocolate chips -- abomination! And that's all there is to it.

I love hearing about or reading other people's butter tart recipes and thinking, "That can't be right! Ew! That's not how we make them!"

:)

Re: Did someone cry Shadenfreude?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Meant to ask: is your family from Canada? Just curious, not to be nosy. ;)

Re: Did someone cry Shadenfreude?

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Yep. My dad is from Glencoe, Ontario (Middlesex County). He is a Waterloo engineering graduate, 1966, I think. I have family there and in Oakville and Barrie, as well as in Nova Scotia and B.C.