Grail's Journal: Passport Hunting

I lost my driver's licence. It wasn't taken away from me for breaking laws - I simply lost it. Lost in the real, physical sense of the term.

My girlfriend decided she wants to take me to New Zealand (her homeland) for a holiday. So I have to apply for a passport.

Guess what? To get a passport, you need a driver's licence (or some other form of photo ID).

To get a driver's licence, you need some form of photo ID, such as a passport.

Ick.

I managed to get my driver's licence by lugging in my birth certificate and all my credit cards, membership cards, anything with my name and signature on it. I am now carrying around enough paper documentation of my identity that anyone could apply for a driver's licence in my name.

At least I'm the only person in the world who knows the passphrase for my SSH and GPG keys. You can't fake what you don't know. Well... not without a couple of Petaflops of AES cracking power.

So now I'm off to the Post Office (oh, fair bastion of the boring and safe) to get my passport.