Still cooling my jets

Well, it has been a nail-biter this month.  They are later than usual with referrals for July, by about 10 days and during those 10 days, things have been really silent, no rumors at all.  Things finally broke today and it has been posted by China that they have referrals on the way for LIDs through 9/19....my LID is 9/20.  Yep, missed me by a day.

The good news is that I WILL be in next month's referrals and this gives me a few more days to prepare.  I am in the process of extending my paperwork so I can get to China and back before it expires.  Since it now seems likely that we will travel to China in November, the extension is definitely necessary.  And I think I have some painting to do...