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The US Embassy in BA has an SSA office in the consular section here, that issues benefits letters, which are already in Spanish and signed in BA, so no legalized translation is needed. It takes about a week to get the appointment with the SSA office here - they print the letter while you wait...

Good luck with the recovery. You'll need to be as vigilant as ever to make sure that they do everything that's needed for the follow-ups. Getting everthing lined up for any surgery and then for the follow-ups is difficult at even the best hospitals. Doing it while very ill and as an...

My regular doc here told me last week that Hospital Italiano insurance has the advantage (over Medicus and others) that they are better organized at providing Rx's for long-term conditions. The example we were talking about was that they provide generic lipitor for 3 months instead of the...

I read through the assessment process and criteria they use. The process is transparent and robust. Looks very well thought out. It measures primarily such things as the number of instances of killings, attacks, and censorship of active journalists and self censorship by media themselves...

I have a bi-lingual 23-year old. We got there through lots of vacations and family visits, stays with cousins and so on. Beyond learning the mechanics of a language and the cultural ideas and common sense ideas that languages carry, we learn how adults speak to each other and understand each...

I think I would use the filetransfer util dropbox to get the 3T here. I brought a 3T drive in my carry-on the last time, and it was DOA, so although using dropbox will take a bit of time, it will work.

I will see you there. Thanks for organizing. Happy travelating, whatever that may bring!

I suggest that the best thing to do is to have the company put you in a temporary rental for a month, while you look at places for yourself. There is such a wide range of different options and compromises within each area. The traffic makes it a noisy city, so tell them you want the...

I'd be interested in fly fishing trips. All my gear is still in N California, but I can bring some down here as I get organized. Maybe we can have an initial meeting to scope out what we need and when are good months to go.

Citi's ATM fees are usurous. Legalized extortion is normal bank behavior. Sh*t is the healthy byproduct of normal organic life however, so let's not give sh*t a bad name by associating it with banks and their regulators. Citi seems more like a flesh-eating bacteria, causing toxic...

Re the FBI report request, vs the request to Apostille the FBI report. When you send the request to the FBI, I learned the hard way that, you have to make sure that the request explicitly asks that the FBI sign and apply the department seal to the report, for the purpose of it being later...

They have a big selection of exercise equipment including exercise tubing, therabands, free weights, and so on, in the exercise equipment shop at Santa Fe 4901, which is at the intersection of Santa Fe and Av Luis Campo. It's about 2 blocks from Palermo subte station.

Any requests for particular kinds of music? I have time to throw something onto my ipod before heading over there later.

I'll be there with my ipod music player, water and 20 small plastic cups. Maybe I'll throw in a blues dance lesson.

In extreme situations I've used the roll-up ear plugs, and then added noise-cancelling headphones one top. This works for example to sleep at burning-man next to the loudest sound camps that play all night and day. This combination gets normal noise spikes down to a low enough level so they...

It is all a matter of perspective. The biggest issue I experience here is the porteno's inexhaustible supply of self-pity that appears out of the blue to demand air time just when things seem to be working for them. Their continual indignation at almost anything is both tedious and tiring...

I've sent you a PM with the SF immigration attorney's contact info. Le me know if you don't get it.

Jim Hightower's take on the Teaparty's as fodder to the money interests http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2763

Hi Sara, Re language. Portenos are more than tolerant of us non-Spanish speakers. They really try to understand and are so helpful with practical things almost all the time. I was for example getting a police report this morning, and the receptionist, and office worker doing fingerprints...

Having been through US immigration processes several times and used US immigration attorneys, my advice is to use the services of an attorney to file the application if you possibly can. They seem incredibly expensive, yet the alternative of relying on the random good will of a case officer...