u/Crazy-Dragonfruit-44

Chicago - GGF - GM - M - Me. Pre-DL, Not 1948, no minor issue.

I'm wrapping up my package for my November appointment and I am missing a fairly important document (parent's divorce certificate), and I have unresolved name discrepancies on my great grandparent's marriage certificate. The name discrepancies vary from anglicized first names to badly misspelled last names. The marriage certificate lists both mother's names as "Catherine" when one is the anglicized first name of one mother and the other appears to be a misunderstood version of the other mother's last name of Cattarello. The misspellings appear to be due to their heavy Italian accents, and attempts to make their Italian last name sound more "American" by mispronouncing it. Almost my entire family still mispronounces their last name but they spell it correctly. :(

I did not pursue an OATS because Chicago won't accept one. The church my great grandparents were married in burned and lost all of the original records, so I do not have the church record of the wedding. Only the one filed with the state/county. I do have the original marriage certificate, and an apostilled certified copy.

I'm still waiting for the county to send my parent's apostilled divorce certificate. I do have a copy of the judgement, just not the certificate.

Time is running out. If I don't manage to get the missing documents would it hurt me to send what I have and hope I can send the rest later?

Any suggestions for what else I can do about the name discrepancies?

Thanks!

Some questions that aren't clear on the OPM website regarding the differences in healthcare options, if I apply for and take a job (not mail carrier) with USPS and move from FEHB to PSHB:

1. If I transfer from FEHB to PSHB mid-year, will my deductible reset?
2. What exactly is the impact of the Medicare Part B requirement in retirement? OPM's website is very confusing, but in one place it states "PSHB is your primary coverage." is that true?
3. What else should I consider?

ETA: I'd like to retire as close to MRA as possible. Which will be in ~8 years.

I have all photos on my phone backing up to the synology photos app - there are around 6000 photos from 2018 through current on my phone and in the Photos app (both on the phone and web interface) I want to be able to access those photos by mapping a drive to my NAS instead of through the web. However, none of the 6000 backed up photos exist in /home/<user>/Photos. All that's in there are the photos from a much older backup that I restored to that location (I can see all of these in the Photos app/web app as well).

Sooo, where can I find my "Recently Added" photos, and everything that was backed up from my phone? And how can I access them from the filesystem rather than the app/web app?

I recently changed my address, and my state DMV says to put a sticker with the new address on the back of my driver's license. This hasn't been a problem for air travel before, but when I went through security yesterday the TSA agent told me I had to remove the sticker because it looks like I'm hiding something?

The sticker wasn't covering the barcode, or any text, and the reader works just fine with it on. Is this a new rule or this particular agent's preference?