Eloïse’s Dutch passport finally arrived yesterday in a FedEx envelope. It was waiting on our doorstep when we returned from the annual Google company picnic.
This signals the end of the baby bureaucracy on this side of the Atlantic. What a lucky girl she is, with her dual-nationality and double passports. Those are things that neither her mother nor father can boast.
I had no idea your first name is Francis. It’s like I don’t even know you! 🙂
The album is messed up for some reason, it doesnt have an index.html file I guess.
Also, I want to point out that will all the railing you did against the American social security office, I see Eloise’s first name does not have a dieresis in it. 🙂
-geoff
Hey Will,
Yeah, Francis is legally my first name. It wasn’t supposed to be, but there was a mix-up somewhere and no-one thought it was worth fixing. No-one could accuse the Macdonald clan of being nit-pickers.
Hi Geoff,
Yes, it’s true that Eloïse is missing her diaeresis; the poor girl. However, I blame the County of Santa Clara, because they couldn’t register her birth with the ‘ï’, and this was the document that we used to prove her identity to the Dutch authorities.
All of which goes to show that it’s important to get this stuff right from the beginning. Otherwise, you set a precedent that will burden you for the rest of your life.
Thanks for alerting me to the issue with the link. It’s fixed now.
I think with 3 or so therapy sessions a week she should be over this before she’s 40.