US Border Status Update

So I wanted to post a short update on my situation. So as it stands right now, I am waiting on 3 fronts. First to see if I can get an appointment with a supervisor at CBP at the Toronto Pearson Airport. Second to see if my minister of parliament can point me in the right direction for getting my US file cleaned up. And third for an appointment with the US consulate to apply for a B1 visa from them. I may also try crossing again with my oodles of paperwork for a shorter stay early next week, in hopes that the shorter duration would help my situation. But as of right now I am very much in limbo. I have however resolved that this is life, shit happens and I gotta get back to work despite the situation. Startups are defined by their trials - this is our first big one - and were gonna kick its ass. Steve is doing a great job of keeping me in the loop with the happenings in Mountain View and we were doing fine before this fiasco - so back to work. We do have lots of deadlines we still need to meet anyways! And on that note - I wrote up a little blog post for the upverter blog today on how to get your hands dirty hacking on OSHW stuff - and you should read it! and you should probably go and get a soldering iron and start hacking too (but I would settle for you just reading it)! I'm still looking for good solutions - if anyone has any - for cleaning up my file and crossing the border. But lacking any magic sauce, I'm just up here in the frozen north hacking away.