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A heavy workload was officially the reason for the delay. I would like to know how much the applications for CHL's jumped after the election.

I sent my renewal to Austin sometime in October '08. Finally got the dern thing on June 5th of 2009. Holdup seemed to be that one of the pages of my renewal request had errors on it. (I put check marks, rather than initialing). That was the second holdup. First was for a bad picture. Seems that my glasses reflected light and my eyes weren't clear enough. Each of these infractions comsumed better than 90 days to correct. I called on average of 3 times a month for the last four months. The permit actually expired on Jan4,2009.

I have no real complaint on the errors. But 9 months sure seems like someone was trying to wait for me to die. I am 81 years old and still going strong. Well, sorta strong.

At first, I thought maybe the permit was to be refused because of age. The person on the other end of the phone wasted no time in denying that. All the people I talked to in Austin, were o-so polite. Sorta like a state trooper when he knows he has ya dead to rights. Thankfully, phone lines won't transmit honey or I would still be cleaning it.

But I got the permit. Sure feels good to have Colt Officer .45 on my left hip. Of course, I never carried illegally. Of course not.

Y'all take care.
Dutchman