Do you want to have show/hide links for your posts, where you can expand and collapse it? This is a trick for those using blogger or blogspot, that’s particularly useful on blogs with very long posts. What happens is that a reader will only see the titles and teaser of your posts at first, so they can skim through and see what they want to read. Then, when they want to read a post, they can click a link to see the full text through the link “read more”. The text can then be hidden again when they’re done reading by clicking “summary only”. Peekaboo view! This all happens on one page, so there is no extra navigating to or loading of other pages. You can give it a try here:

Expandable posts with Peekaboo view.
Follow Hackosphere’s directions there. He made it easy and clear.

When life is boring and gray, there is a place where we can focus and see the beauty and fun around it. This is how I see this picture. It is so divine for me. What can you say about this?

Frontier info the day:

CIA estimated the total population of India at mid-July 2008 to be 1,147.966 million. That is billions!

Since the time I started blogging, my blogs In a class by itself and Sweet and spicy life have evolved from one design to another, some of the screenshots I saved. Now I can say I know my way around basic html, but of course I had the guide from great blogging hackers who unselfishly share their knowledge and whose hacks I actually have been using in the past and this time. I am now into something new to me this time, learn some. I just think it is right for me to acknowledge them now.

Hackosphere
Hoctro’s Place
Beautiful Beta
Blogger-hacked

This time it is totally useless, as well as the $305 we paid for the Advance parole which would have let me enter into the USA if I leave without my Green Card yet. It was just that we don’t have any news about my green card for so many months that applying for travel document I-131 was comforting, knowing we have something to wait upon. But since my green card came, before being given travel document, it is now part of the experience dealing with my papers here as wife of a US Citizen.

Today I got a response from USCIS that they have received my application a month ago and still take them some 60-90 days to process it. I’m just thankful my green card came, mid-October we would have to use it, and for sure travel document would not be up yet, by estimating their time frame, before they can make a decision, it will be too late.

Which way in New Orleans? Most of the New Orleans land is below the sea level so you can see a lot of bodies of water there and they get flooded easily. They kept saying us that everything in New Orleans is unique even their way of calling directions. They described directions with respect to the waters, which weave around the city: lakeside means toward Lake Pontchartrain; riverside means toward the Mississippi River; upriver refers to Uptown; and downriver refers to Downtown.

Finally, Miami office of the Netherlands Consulate said my papers were okay. We had had several email exchanges with the New Orleans sub-office because of the health insurance thing. Hubby’s company is international with employees from all over the world, so I am also covered when I travel outside of the USA. Somehow they had hard time understanding out-of network plans of the company that the benefits department was involved already in making the New Orleans office understand. Miami said its OK, so now we are ready to receive my passport back which we Fedex’d early this week, with Netherlands visa already. Hubby was taking care of it, making sure everything would be dealt and settled with so we can have my visa to the mid-October trip. So excited!

It’s time everyone flies. We have tried to purchase my domestic e-tickets today for my incoming flight back to the Philippines from Manila to Davao next month. But how in the world, Cebu Pacific Air, which hubby chooses, does not allow visa payments from the United States! I just won’t dare imagine them if they handle payments online from other countries.

One thing from them though:

TRAVEL TIP: Travel on Tuesdays or Wednesdays for best availability of lowest fares.
More about my travels travelsintime.

This time we are purchasing my domestic e-tickets back and forth online from Cebu Pacific. Hubby used to buy it online from them but this time they wont allow visa card transactions from the USA. No other payment options. So hubby tried to call long trans-pacific but he could not reach them. Maybe some temporary problems they’re having; but if the USA is not served, how much more the other countries? We are not yet worried of it this time. We are just glad that I can used the free tickets we have for me that will be one year old this month. No postponement already. But now I’m kind of “can’t believe I’m finally going back”. But I know it’s normal.