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It arrived on Wednesday!!! I'm legal! I carried to church mid-week services Wednesday night and on some errands last night, but I can't carry at work, because I work on a prison facility, but tonight will be the Wally World trip and out for a bite to eat!

Finally got an e-mail from Ms. Leach today. She said the license was mailed out last Friday (6/9) and it should be here in time for my Father's Day trip!

I have heard that the DPS only mails licenses out on Thursday, so, if that is usually the case, then Ms. Leach must have gotten it into the mail personally. That deserves a hearty thank you to Ms. Leach! And I asked her for her supervisor's contact information to send him/her a commendation for Ms. Leach's help.

KD5NRH wrote:Oh well...still "Processing," so I guess I'll have to take a night off soon to sit out there with a camera and wait.

They might be hard to find with deer season still being a ways off, but Walmart usually carries a camera/motion detector setup that will automatically take a picture when there is enough movement to trip the motion detector. I think it was about $50, but I'm not sure. The trick would be ensuring that the vandals don't destroy the camera after they see it flash.

Never got a reply from Ms. Leach, but she must have worked some magic, because this morning I checked my status, and it says, "Application Completed - license issued or certificate active!" Now we'll see if it can get here in time for me to use it for my little trip on Father's Day.

Now my wife will think I've actually taken an interest in lawn work, as I mow the lawn daily to unobtrusively watch for the mail arriving!

BTW, Charles, I've never actually seen a thumb-twiddling emoticon, but the idea described what I was doing at the time. The foot-tapper was close enough. Oh, and no dancer, yet: I don't have the license in hand.

No response from Waldene Leach, yet. Part of me is hoping she'll hold off replying for a day or two so that she can say it is going into the mail that day. Part of me wants to know something right now. I'm trying to be patient, but I'm afraid I'll end up being a pain in the rear, because I don't understand why this is taking so long.

Longtooth, thanks for the foot-tapper. I guess I overlooked that one!

Well, I hope I don't hack Ms. Leach off at the DPS, but I sent her another e-mail today. Basically just asking how much longer I'll have to wait. And pleading for my license to arrive before my little trip over the Father's Day weekend. We'll see how much good it does me...

I'm trying to be patient. Really, I am. It's been 87 days since the DPS got my packet originally, and 37 days since they got the signed TR-100 back. [Where is that thumb-twiddling emoticon?]

Just saw Bones3's post that he received his license today. I noticed in his timeline that his packet arrived in Austin 23 days after my packet originally made it into their hands. I'm still kicking myself for overlooking the signature required on the TR-100. If I had signed that simple slip of paper, I probably would have had my license for a coupke of weeks or more by now, and wouldn't have had to disarm every time I got out of my vehicle when we went to visit my in-laws in Houston last weekend.

So, thanks to my own carelessness/stupidity, I am on day 84 from original receipt and day 34 since they got the signed TR-100 back, and the online tracking system still shows "Processing application." I finally got my PIN letter dated May 19, so, using Bones3's timeline as a guide, I should have just over two more weeks of waiting. Yippie! Just in time to miss being a Father's Day gift!

Sorry to be such a kill-joy, but I want everyone to remember to double-check every sheet of paper in their application packet to make sure it is signed, if need be.