Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Permanent Residency- is it that difficult? Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <067a0f3a-6a89-4b7a-be73-c581a92e9208@g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> References: <4bb4642a$0$27746$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <11a69d65-1a7b-48c6-927c-fef0c49c1800@r27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.138.0.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1270568521 22353 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2010 15:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.138.0.11; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169038 On Apr 6, 9:05=A0am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > Well, you were just being unreasonable. > > (Try telling him you didn't answer your phone while on vacation because y= ou > don't have a cell pohne :-)) > > We also had a 'discussion' about that. I said that if I'm using my phone for work purposes then the company should pay for the phone, especially since I had to travel for work quite a bit and often had to make/take calls during that time. I'm thinking of running away from it all and buying an inn somewhere, becoming a 21st century Dick Loudon in my own little Stratford Inn. My wife is not in support of this idea since she has seen Newhart and it doesn't look so rosy from her perspective. John W.