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Learning Technical

Global Entry Checker Weekend Project

Was looking at the Global Entry flow for the Bay Area and decided to put together this script that will log into the site and schedule an earlier time if one is available.  It’s based on Selenium in Python.

I put it up on GitHub for folks to use and improve.  It currently only looks at the date and has no notion of hours.  You can set blacklist days to avoid though.  There’s also a small section where you can email yourself via Gmail when you get an earlier time.

There are a ton of other scripts people have written. I really wanted to do this all in Python, but Selenium made things much faster to put together. Also it didn’t take much to set up the driver.

It’s not pretty, but it works well enough =)

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#DadLife

Happy Birthday Preston: You have survived level 1

First off, congratulations on surviving to 1!  We hope for your continued thriving through our fumbles.  You are as resilient as I hoped!  =D

Even though you’re 1 today, I’m celebrating my 2nd Father’s Day…No, not because I have another kid.  Imagine what the first Father’s Day was like for me.  Uh…it’s like being the youngest in the classroom.  Just barely made class of 2016 Dads.

It’s unlikely you’ll remember either Father’s Day, but be assured that I am waaaay better at this job than one year ago and I hope to continue improving.  Like many new careers there’s a learning curve and I hope to hockey stick in my performance.  I understand that you plan to change drastically and make the nature of my job more about people skills and less about mechanics in the future.  Rest assured that I have read only the best books on the matter of negotiation.

Thanks to everyone that celebrated with us.  You made the day much more special than we anticipated and I hope he can look back and understand how lucky he is.  P, no matter what happens just remember that you’re loved.

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