Our USCIS Interviewer Recommended AOS for Yufang!

Yufang and I just got back from our mini-trip to Cleveland for Yufang’s AOS interview, and the USCIS interviewer recommended her change of status! The only problem was with the medical documents, which were filled out incorrectly by the doctor in Stow. The interviewer told us that another couple interviewing today went to the same …

Neil Gaiman in Cleveland, October 4

James just gave me a heads-up on Neil Gaiman’s visit to Cleveland on October 4, 2009 as part of the Cleveland Public Library’s Writer and Reader series. Here are the details from Gaiman’s website: Cleveland Public Library’s Writers & Readers series presents Neil Gaiman Sunday, 2:00pm FREE Where: Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library Building Louis …

The Utopian Violinist and Conductor, André Rieu

Tonight, Yufang and I drove to Cleveland to hear André Rieu and His Johann Strauss Orchestra.  We had third row seats in the Cav’s arena, so we really got to see all of the antics Rieu and his band put on while belting out waltzes and old standards.  There was a permeable energy throughout the …

ICFA 2009, To the Orlando Airport and Flight Back to Kent

This morning, I got an early start and hit the hotel Starbucks for coffee and their yummy banana nut bread.  While I was there, I spoke with Andy Duncan briefly before I returned to my room to pack and head off for the airport. I had to wrap some of my books in newsprint to …