IRS Lives!

Another night of less than optimal sleep. I hate setting an alarm. I get so anxious about not waking up on time. Sigh. When I am president, I think I will have my assistants call me or knock on my door when I need to get up. I think that might be less intrusive than an actual alarm. I also think that the alarms that have large lights on them that just get brighter and brighter until one wakes and turns them off are pretty cool.

I did get to her house on time this morning. A little early of course. She was late. Life is that way. She also sat in the back seat, which was a little surprising. Not that I really care. But if she had told me ahead of time, I would have cleaned out the back seat for her. I think my car is too old to have heated seats in the back. And I didn’t know where the cup holders were – turns out there are holders in the door pockets. Lastly, she needed to borrow my charging cable because my car didn’t have a USB-A port which is what her cord needed. It was a long way to Olean. But it went pretty quickly. Easy drive. Nice weather. Lots of beautiful views. We really do live in a great part of the country!

On the way home, I stopped and charged for a bit at a Tops. It was good to have a rest from driving. They didn’t sell Pepitas. So I didn’t open the package of them that I have in the car as a gift for EC (and JC if he wants some and EC is willing to share). Sigh. The route I took home, sent me through Naples past BVT. I still have bad memories of that place. I know it was my fault. I oughtn’t to have said yes. I was just so excited to be doing paid work in the theatre. Long frustrating story that, if you go back far enough in these posts, you can find out all about it. Not my best moments.

At home, I had some lunch. I finally, after months it seems, finished my bag of sweet potato chips. Woo hoo! A weight has been lifted.

Gosh, my hotdogs and baked beans last night were about the best version of that I have made and had. This time I added sauerkraut, sour cream and mustard (dill) and boy howdy was it tasty! I also counted how many pieces I cut each hot dog into so that I can more better keep a decent ratio between hot dog and not hot dog. I think I will have more of that tonight.

I am not sure how appetizing this looks to anyone else, but…

I did a second shift of dashing and it wasn’t too bad. I ended up declining one because I didn’t want to drive to Lyons yet again for way too little money. Soon after that, I got a well paying offer to Seneca Falls. It might have been about the same distance, but the $ was completely different. I took that one and made it my last for the evening.

While I was waiting at Char Burrito, I noticed a message from the woman I delivered to Olean this morning. She was asking about trips to Rochester. And then she called me and told me that she wasn’t able to get an uber back to Geneva. Honestly, I am not surprised. It is a terrible ride. And I doubt there are many Uber drivers in Olean on a Wednesday night. I opted not to drive another four hours, in the dark, to go get her. That was around 5:30 pm. If I had gone, I wouldn’t have been back until around 9:30 pm. I feel a teeny bit guilty. I hope she figures it out!

Now I am home and falling asleep as I type this. But I want to eat a bit before going to sleep. Not that I am particularly hungry. I think it will be the last of the leftover pasta tonight instead of the delicious baked beans. I want to add some sort of sauce, but I am not sure what at this point. I found the shells with chick peas to be a tad dry for my taste.

Augustus for President: I had a reminder set up for me to call the IRS again today. I had put it on daily repeat, figuring that the IRS wouldn’t get their act together for another week. I was surprised when the message said my wait time would be between half an hour and an hour. It was about half an hour I think. I had a very nice person to help me. She said that a letter was in the mail and I ought to get it. Eventually. It really should just take three days, but I am not going to be expecting it for at least a week. But then I can finally get my bank account for the campaign going and start collecting contributions. I like that word better than donation. The campaign isn’t a charity. It is a group on a mission to make the United States and hopefully the world a happier and better place. Not great again, by the way…

Other than that, I did have a lot of thoughts that I added to the database. And I have decided that I will start a separate presidential blog post from this, my personal one, beginning in January of 2026. Tortoise steps rule!

I may change the start date of my tour to all fifty state capitals to Wednesday, February 11 2026 as that will be exactly 1000 days until the election. Thoughts are welcome!

Brunhilde!

Our Childhood Dog!

We had Brunhilde from 1971 until 1982 or so I think. Partly my dog. Mostly my mom’s dog since I went away to high school in 1974. Great dog! So sweet. She spoiled me for all other dogs, though I have had partial ownership of a couple of short haired mini dachshunds that were pretty cool.

Today was Tuesday and I did not have a long dash day. Yippee! In fact, the first dash session was terrible in terms of money. Luckily, the distance traversed was not great. Because…Someone who shall remain nameless forgot to plug their car in last night – despite the 10:30 pm alert. I think s/he looked at it and said, aha, yes, the car is not plugged in and then didn’t move…which meant that when they went to start their morning drive, the car was at 40% charge. Plenty as it turned out. Woo hoo! Anyway, the dash was not great and I was unamused. But I did get a lot of reading accomplished!

At lunch time I charged the car and ate some lunch. Two good things. I haven’t been charging the car much at lunch time since I got the new to me Tesla. I also added some things to the presidential database. And had some deep thoughts. I tried the IRS again and was basically still hung up on. I have now set that reminder to occur everyday. Though I am thinking I might look for an IRS office near me and drive there on Friday. (There’s one in Rochester and one in Syracuse!)

My second dash was the complete opposite of my first. It was good money for not a lot of driving. Woo hoo! I had a chat with one of the McDonald’s managers and maybe a regional manager too. Mainly I told them that when the store prints out the ticket, it shows up as ready for dashers which is bad because then we often have to wait for orders to be completed. Which is bad for everyone…we shall see if anything comes of it.

I’m home now. Duolingo is complete and the blog is nearly done.

I need to check with my sister and see what day, if any, would be optimal for me to arrive for my week’s Christmas visit.

I am leaning towards going to try the trivia at Red Brick Pub on Thursday. It starts at 6:30. I’ll ask PvK and MF if they want to try it with me. I stopped in and spoke with Char and Samantha and they filled me in on the deets. It does start at 6:30. It is a paper based quiz, not a phone based quiz. And it hasn’t started getting crowded again, yet. So seems like a perfect time to try it out.

I have another potentially bad night of sleep to look forward to tonight. The person who wanted to go to Olean on Monday wants to go there on Wednesday now. Sigh.

Augustus for President: I looked up the Democratic Socialist party and was disheartened to see that they only had 80,000 registered members so far.

I understand the idea of discontinuing production the U.S. penny but it also seems like a bad idea. Though Canada did away with theirs all the way back in 2013.

Heard a very interesting person speaking on Connections this afternoon. I am not sure when I want to reach out to all of the people that I think are interesting and might have good ideas about campaigning and about governing. Maybe after I have accomplished my first 50 state tour in April. We shall see.

Oh Deer, and Phew!

While dashing down the back road towards Waterloo and Seneca Falls, I saw the car in front of me get into an accident with a deer. From my vantage point I saw the deer jump onto the road, almost in front of the other car. I don’t know if I or the Tesla would have been able to avoid it. The deer was a buck and had a head full of horns, so it should have known better. I am guessing it was going to die, but I didn’t go to check on it. I did check on the driver. All of his airbags had deployed and he was ok. The car was not in good shape. I tried to open the driver’s side door and it wouldn’t open. He crawled out a back door and had a phone and seemed ok. I told him that if he was asked, he should say he wanted the deer…He told me I didn’t need to wait with him. Which is good since I had a delivery order in the car. Scary, though.

Cute sign!

It was a two dash day. Though it wasn’t supposed to me. I was supposed to take someone to Olean this morning. I didn’t sleep well because the drive was to be early and I didn’t want to miss it. Around 6:15 am she texted me and said she wasn’t going after all as she was feeling unwell. We shall see if the ride she had tentatively scheduled for Wednesday happens or not. No worries either way. I did get a bit more sleep. Still, it was a little frustrating.

Instead of that, I did two not great dashes. Well, I guess they were pretty good because I didn’t hit a deer! Altogether, I almost made my lowest goal for two shifts. Whatever. I can’t really be bothered. Any funds are better than no funds. I got to do some reading. Both in a tangible book and in an audio book.

The audio book is book four, The Shadow Rising, in the Wheel of Time series. I think it is one of my favorite books of the series. Lord of Chaos is pretty great too. 6-12 are a bit of a slog. I have listened to them at least once before on CD but that was a long, long, long time ago. Maybe even 1999. Or at the latest 2002. The hard cover book is Rusted Robots, which I started long ago (months?) and am about a third of the way through. Yay reading. Though at some point I will need to start seriously reading some serious books that are seriously good for me and the campaign instead of all this fun reading. Sigh.

I have a new stack of photos to digitize. I found an envelope full of pictures and was wondering whether or not I had digitized them as they looked familiar. Luckily, someone, me, scrawled on the envelope that I had in fact digitized them back in April. Huzzuh!

During lunch I headed to visit JC and EC to give them back their blind that I fixed. Not the easiest thing to re-hang. We had a nice talk about the two books I recently gave him. He read them both! He had good insights. After that, he offered me lunch and the three of us ate and chatted, which was lovely.

I zipped back home and only had about 15 minutes to do things around here. Not enough time to do much of anything. Oh well.

While out and about I saw that someone had a storage container – like the containers that people ship things in – in their driveway. Maybe I will get one of those and stick all the stuff I was going to put in the storage shed I was planning on buying as an interim measure. Where I’d put it I don’t really know, though. Just thinking out loud…

And here I am home again. I have done my Duolingo and am finishing the blog post. Dinner will be leftover pasta, a side salad and a piece of garlic cheese toast. So excited!

Augustus for President: I thought of a lot of things to add to the database – and thence to the campaign or to governing thoughts. And I remembered a few things through chatting with JC and EC. Like fix it rooms in schools. Such a great idea. I don’t know where I read about it, but I think it is a no-brainer!

Blasts from the Way Back Past

Lots of old pictures

The pictures I scanned yesterday were all of people related to my mom. And some of mom herself. I scanned at least 40 images. I think some of them might have been duplicates. A few had some writing on them, either front or back or in some cases both. They really liked their goats! I opened up the box that I found the album on top of and discovered many more photo albums from that era and before! Sadly, it doesn’t seem like any of the pictures are labeled at all. I am not going to digitize those right now because I don’t know who would look at them and have any clue who those people were. But I may digitize them someday and put them up online and see if anyone can identify any of the people in the them. Instead, I am going to look for more modern pictures and digitize some of those. I hope to find pictures of the current and previous generation. And maybe the next generation. In other words, pictures of my mom and dad, their kids and their kid’s kids. Here’s hoping!

So far this morning, I have again accomplished some good things. Most of which have been campaign related.

It is afternoon now. I ate leftovers for lunch. And will have left over pasta for dinner tonight I think. Though, on second thought, I think I will have breakfast for dinner instead and save the pasta for later in the week. Much better plan.

At some point tonight, I will digitize the more modern pictures I have found. I think they are from around 1998 if I had to guess. Some family Christmas pictures, some pictures of some road trip. And some pictures of one of my exes and our dog. And some pictures that don’t have people in them that probably won’t be digitized at this point. Certainly not all of them. There are around 90 pictures in this album. I think I will digitize about half – which is about how many I digitized yesterday.

I’ve gone flannel. I decided to start putting flannel sheets on the bed again for the winter season. Starting with a penguin set that I believe my lovely sister gave me one Christmas. Yay sheets!

Speaking of Christmas, it looks like I will be heading to Maine this year for that holiday! Huzzuh!! Back in time for New Years as SM is tentatively planning a New Year’s Eve party of some sort.

Augustus for President: I have gone through the database of thoughts once. I created a second layout so I can hopefully do some cleanup and re-categorizing and condensing and deleting where it makes sense. I love Filemaker so much!!

I did a draft of my letter to the governors for the trip in February. I will try to get that in the mail in early January. I wonder if I should email it and snail mail it. That will be determined later, I guess. I also drafted a form, like the form I used for “And the Pursuit of Happiness” trip I did back in 2002. This one has four questions instead of just the one. Basically the same questions I will be asking the governors with a tweak for people who aren’t politicians.

My first draft poster for possible meet-ups is in my folder now. I will let it rest for a bit before revisiting it.

Lastly, I updated the survey page. Though I have discovered something distressing and haven’t figured out what is happening. People have said that they have answered the surveys but for some reason their answers aren’t showing up. No idea why that is happening. I guess before I start my tour in February I will have to pay for a survey site subscription. Poo.

Starting Scanning!

Does anyone recognize this photo album?

I have decided that I need to start scanning pictures. This is an older album, maybe from the early 1900s So the people who know the people in them might not even be alive anymore. Some of the pictures have writing on the back that might help. We shall see. More later.

Last night, I had dinner at JC and EC’s home. It was a lovely evening. They had cheese and crackers out when I arrived. I was offered and accepted a glass of tasty red wine. We chatted all chatted while they both worked on making the dinner. And a great dinner it was! We started with steamed artichokes. Instead of butter, EC made a concoction of oil and herbs that worked really well. I was surprised that neither of them were adept at removing the choke before eating the heart of the artichoke! We had white wine with the artichokes, btw.

Dinner was orrecchette with a pasta sauce that was partly EC’s and partly SM’s. No salad or bread. But that’s ok. It was quite tasty. I even got a container full to bring home for a future dinner. So excited. After dinner we had our choice of ice creams with fresh raspberries. And I got to take some of the raspberries home as well.

Oh, I took them a bouquet of flowers and copies of both Bar Dreams and Diary of a Plate Addict. And I signed and personalized both books. Will they be read? Anything is possible. I aslo took a few minutes to see what was happening with JC’s phone. Very few solicitations, which was great. For some reason, though, his weather widget was defaulting to Cupertino. Perhaps adding Romulus would fix that problem. I will try that next time I am there.

Today, three of my four helpers from the last two weeks begged off. Though one did suggest alternate times that they could come. The fourth said they were coming for sure. But they said that last week and didn’t show up. It doesn’t really matter though. If they come, great. If they don’t, great. I have stuff I can do all day if I want. Like digitize pictures…

One showed up and we got some good sorting accomplished! Woo hoo! And I found a partially drunk bottle of wine. The wine had not aged well…

Tonight, dinner with SM at a new to us both place over in Seneca Falls, The Red Brick Tavern. So excited!

Meh. The dinner was not the culinary experience I was anticipating. I guess they lost their chef and just have a cook back in the kitchen. Poo. I ordered some deep friend Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls only to be told that they were out of them. (Our server was not exemplary.) I then ordered a Cowboy burger that was decent, not anywhere near excellent. SM had a shrimp po boy and enjoyed the shrimp from what she said. The place was loud and cold and the food was only ok. I do not recommend it. That being said, I might be crazy and go back there next Saturday night. Probably not to eat though…

Augustus for President: JC hasn’t finished his endorsement. EC asked if she could share my two documents that I gave to JC to “edit” (he didn’t find anything he thought needed changing) to her sister. I said sure. Why not? One of the reasons I enjoy hanging out with them (JC and EC) is because we can talk about politics and I can tell them all of my wacky ideas. As long as we don’t dwell on Drumpf too much…

My helper and I chatted about politics a bit. That always makes me think. Which is good. Stretching the brain.

48 hours?

That’s good to know! I guess overnight parking is ok…

Yay for productive mornings! Well, mostly sort of productive. Like, I didn’t create a great oeuvre, but I did complete a few tasks from my reminders. And read a good bit.

What did I do, the curious amongst you might be wondering? Well, first off, I called the ATT class action phone line and got my claim in. The more people who claim, the smaller the payout will be for each of us, but I don’t really care about the money. It is more of the principle of the thing. (For those that don’t know, ATT had two major data breaches in the last couple of years and are paying up for those.) I had to wait an hour for someone to pick up. My guess is that they have a timer on the calls and wait an hour to make sure that people are serious. Hmm, maybe any money they don’t have to pay out they get to keep. Anyway, that was a good thing done.

Next up, I had the “find copies of Diary of a Plate Addict” as an action item. I had looked in a lot of places. I looked in two more. I looked more in depth in the front hall closet and found way more boxes full of media than I had recalled. I guess I need to start digitizing pictures. I am going to start with digitizing pictures of people and see if anyone knows who any of these people are. Anyway, no boxes of books to be found. I looked in the attic – surface level – no books to be seen. I reluctantly looked in the basement because I believed I would be unlikely to put the books in the basement where it is known to get damp – not good for books. And what do you know, I found the boxes of books! Huzzuh! I now have a good amount of books to take with me on my trip. I don’t expect to sell many copies of either book on this trip, as I won’t be having events so to speak. But I might sell the odd copy here and there. Every sou helps.

After my last entry, I had some raisin toast for lunch and then headed to Wegman’s for some shopping. I bought some stuff I didn’t need and that wasn’t on my list. And of course what was on my list. No alcohol. No meat. Guess how much one bag of stuff cost me. Go ahead. That’s right, $70+. Sigh. I guess I am going to have to start selling stuff out of the house at some point to help make ends meet. Not tonight though, Satan!

I came home, did a little cleaning, mostly in the kitchen – ok, all in the kitchen. And then I called the IRS to see if they had gotten my change of name letter and if the name had been changed. The menu took me to the appropriate place only to be told to hang up and try again and that maybe someday they would be able to take my call. I wish they would have just put me on hold. But that wasn’t an option.

And that’s all I really did all afternoon: call the IRS to no avail; and read. Soon, I will be heading to dinner with JC and EC!

Augustus for President: I did a bunch more items in the thoughts database. First go through is almost done. I think I have 25 more records to look at and categorize. That and calling the IRS were my two big efforts on the campaign front. Oh, and someone online suggested that we lift the cap on house membership. I think that’s a great idea. Let’s get it down to one congressperson for 400k people. Or 350k. So about 1/1000th of the population. I like decimals. I wonder what other representative democracies have in terms of representation.

Last Night of Leftovers (for now)

I don’t ever remember my mom yelling at me and using my full name. I wonder if that happened to my brother. Most people who have nicknames or even better middle names, apparently, when they were in trouble, their parents would use their full names to yell at them. And to make them know that they (the parents) were serious.

Tried to pay my GD ticket, again. At least there was someone at the Court this time. But there was also a sign saying that their credit card machine was not working. I asked the person what that was about and they gave me a long boring answer along the lines of “IT hasn’t fixed the issue.” They then said I could pay with cash if I wanted. Sigh. I do not want to pay with cash. If I can put it on my mileage credit card, which I pay off every month, then I get miles for this stupid crappy tickets. $93 just in court fees! That is ludicrous!!

I think my Thanksgiving menu, since I will probably be making dinner for myself alone that day (which I am not in the least upset about) will be: Turkey, Turkey Stove Top Stuffing, Turkey Gravy, Cranberry sauce (which I will make from frozen cranberries), Brussels sprouts, acorn squash and romanoff potatoes (new to me recipe). So excited!!

Maybe the musical “instrument” I will try next is the Theremin…Why are they so expensive! The least expensive I found was around $300. Poo. Maybe I will just practice my one song on the piano to get this desire for leraning an instrument out of my blood.

Well, that was a surprise. I ended up just doing one not so great dash today. I was going to do a second one, it was my plan. But…it was raining. And I didn’t really need to do one. I mean, another $50 or so would always be welcome… yet it was so nice to not do another one. I basically stayed home and did stuff. Read a good bit of my Rivers of London book. I did quite a few of the “thoughts” in the thought database. I think I still have around 300 to go. I played a bit on my phone. And yes, I turned the heat up. Some like it warm. All in all, much more pleasant than going out and dashing in the cold and possibly rainy day/night.

It is going to be a full weekend. Which means I probably won’t go to the Cracker Factory on Sunday night. Tomorrow night I get to have dinner with JC and EC. EC is cooking some sort of pasta. I need to take her flowers. I am also hoping to find copies of my two books to take to JC. I obviously have copies of Bar Dreams now. I just need to find the three or four boxes of Diary of a Plate Addict and get one of those for him as well. Saturday, I have dinner with SM. I am going to suggest Avicolli’s and The Red Brick Tavern – both in Seneca Falls. (She agreed to the Red Brick Tavern)

Next week, I guess I will be doing some uber like work. A couple of longish drives with someone I haven’t met yet. If they happen. And dashing, of course. Oh, and possibly another ride or two for SM. I am not sure of the dates for her rides at this point.

I haven’t carved a pumpkin in a long time!

Last night of the leftovers from Phoenix Flavors. I thought I would finish last night, but that didn’t happen. I think I will add some Sriracha to tonight’s dinner. And a little side salad. So not excited. But it will be a step up from fodder.

Augustus for President: I am enjoying going through my thoughts document/database. The database makes it so much easier to categorize things. After I finish the first go round, I will look at what I have characterized things as and maybe make some more categories, so i don’t have 100-300 “random” thoughts. Some things could be two thoughts though – so maybe I will add a secondary category list. It is good that I have actually already accomplished a few of the things in the database. Woo hoo! Now, if only I could start bringing more people on board.

I called my first travel agent today. She hasn’t called back. I will give her until tomorrow to call back. Then I will look further afield. Should I look for a travel professional, or for a personal or executive assistant?

Pool Night!

Any guesses what is in these packages? (Answer Below)

I have added pool night at the Cracker Factory to my calendar. Not that it happens every week, but it happens frequently enough to add it. Last week the owner of the CF was sick, so we didn’t have pool night. We shall see if it is cancelled again tonight. So far, no message. Yippee!

Today was a two dash day. How exciting is that? The first dash was barely ok in terms of money. The second dash was much better – so good in fact that I quit half an hour early. Which is good because that gives me more time to do my blog post, do some Duolingo and eat some food. Yippee!

I really don’t like plantains. I mean, ick. They are woody and have no taste so far as I can tell. They certainly don’t remind me of bananas!

When I tried to digitize my set of Beethoven’s symphonies, it didn’t work out. I think I have pieces of two different symphonies. Maybe I will try to digitize them again. If I can find them. Or if I could find the Bernstein versions online somewhere I would buy those electronically.

I wonder when Teslas will get Starlink as an option. It would make sense to me. Especially when the cars go fully autonomous. It would be good to have connectivity everywhere.

It’s weird, but I am feeling like I would like to learn the basics of another instrument. The first one that came to mind was the oboe – or better yet, the bassoon. But bassoons are so expensive and I know myself well enough that I will get myself to a certain level of proficiency and then abandon the project. Sigh. Saxophone also appeals. As do flute and piccolo. I probably won’t do anything about this, though I have been having this urge off and on for a couple of years now.

My magnetic book mark is growing on me. I am learning to use it effectively. My worry now is that I will lose it. I think the thing came from far away as it took a long time to arrive in the mail. And it wasn’t cheap.

Oh, I went to pay my ticket, finally, today and guess what. The court of the Town of Geneva is open (mostly) from 9-12 Monday through Thursday. Of course, I went there at 3 and they were closed. Maybe I will get there tomorrow. I also mailed off a payment to the New York State Work Zone Speed Enforcement program which, for some reason, is based in Pennsylvania! What the heck is that about?

So, the boxes contain 50 copies of Bar Dreams. I wonder how long it will take me to sell them. I am guessing I will have these till I die. But at least I have them if anyone makes noises about wanting a copy. I wonder where I put all the copies of Diary of a Plate Addict that I have lying around the house. That whole thing still irks me. Grrr.

Augustus for President: I had a few thoughts today – I don’t think I mentioned the campaign to anyone though. I did notice that a few people did double and triple takes at my name badge.

One thought I had was that I would invite the CEOs and other rich people to talk to them at the White House. Not in the Oval Office as I wouldn’t want them to think I thought they were that important. But I really would like to ask them – What the Actual Fuck?!? Seriously, are they stupid? Are they trying to create the circumstances that will lead to violent and bloody revolution? Do they not read history?

I think that veterans ought to fall under the purview of the military. It is good that there is a cabinet level position, but the military ought to be paying for and caring for veterans. In my humble opinion. Without any additional funds since the Military get so much money from the government already.

I probably had other thoughts, but I am hungry…

Cameron’s Bakery

My pizza from Saturday

Today I did two dash shifts. Both were ok. The second was a typical Tuesday in my dashing experience. Too much distance (90 miles) for too little money. Oh well. I survived. And, when I was in Auburn, I was tasked to go to Cameron’s Bakery. Down the road a bit from Kostas. It looked like a cool place! Someday I will go back there. Maybe.

At lunch time, the meat fairy stopped by with venison sticks. I have never had a venison stick. And so, when they were offered, I accepted. The meat fairy brought a lot of venison sticks! I guess I will have to thaw some sometime and see what they are all about. I mean, why not?

I didn’t get much of anything accomplished at lunch time. I had thought to pay my tickets and make some calls, but I remembered (or recalled) that it was a bank holiday today for Veteran’s day. I will just do the stuff tomorrow instead.

Augustus for President: I hate being ripped off. And I wish I could figure out who ripped me off and how and why. Apparently EIN numbers are free, yet I paid $300+ for mine. Grrr. Really, really irked by that. At least it wasn’t $1000. Right? After I call the IRS, if I get someone, if they say that my change of name hasn’t shown up and that it hasn’t been accomplished, I might just tell them to cancel that EIN number and get another one, as Elijah recommended months ago. Maybe K+ did as well. I was reluctant, at the time, because I still thought they an EIN would cost me another $300+. Sigh and grrr.

Way too many random thoughts. I have to come up with more categories somehow. Which is kind of what I was looking for from the various people to whom I farmed this project out.

One of my thoughts is that I would like to see if I can tackle some of the income inequality by staffing up the IRS big time, maybe pair them with DOJ prosecutors to go after the big ticket people who ought to be paying a lot of federal tax.

I really could use some help on the campaign. I need someone as crazy as I am to assist me in this endeavor. I am sure they will turn up eventually. But it would be great to have them around sooner rather than later…

One Egg Omelette

Or is it omelet? I don’t know why, but I am old school. Ok, I know why. I am old(ish). And the more letters the better, imho. Dinner last night was pretty tasty. I forgot to add the bacon bits to the inside of the omelet, so I added it to the outside instead. I might have to do this again next weekend.

Cream Cheese on my waffle!

I have no specific idea why I was so depressed today. Here are some possible reasons:

The democrats caved last night. And I can only think that it was leadership that allowed it to happen. There was no reason to cave. Drumpf was losing it, SNAP was going to be paid in full. He was yelling at Air Traffic Controllers. If the silly democrats had stuck it out another week, Drumpf would have thrown all his allies under the bus. But no, Chuckles had to give in. Despite a roaring democratic base who gave them permission to hold out – what else did such a blue wave in the recent elections mean? We have cowards leading the democrats. And that shit doesn’t fly. Grrr.

The weather – I was not expecting winter weather so soon! Yes, we have, when I was younger, gotten winter weather this early before. But for the past few years, we haven’t been getting much in the way of winter until January or February. It was so coldI had to wear long johns. And I couldn’t find my warm hat – beanie. Not really sure what those hats are called. I guess I will have to head to the Dollar Store and buy a few of them and scatter them around. I know I saw one in the house or in the car recently. And I chose to wear boots – just in case I had to troop through snow. Which I did here and there. Grrr.

This ought to be in the Augustus for President section, but I will put it here. My niece got covid so she didn’t do anything on the document I foisted on her. Not one thing. In more than 10 days. Sigh. Hope was springing eternal, not so much where she is concerned now. Oh well. I hope she feels better soon. Grrr.

Dashing in general made me depressed today for some reason. Not really sure why as I did ok on both of my shifts with no major problems. Oh, as I was stopping tonight, Door Dash was offering $2 extra per offer. Which I didn’t get. I got lots of crappy rides though. And the Airplane mode trick a fellow dasher mentioned, didn’t work for me. That sucks. I was all caught up in acceptances, too. Grrr.

I got some not so great mail pieces today. And still no books. The bad mail pieces were two tickets. One was the long awaited bill from my speeding ticket that I took the class for. The fine was an additional $180+ I think, making the whole thing close to $300. I didn’t really absorb the amount as it was so outlandish. And I got an automatic ticket for going too fast in a construction zone near Rochester. Yay. It is only money. I loathe money (except when it is flowing towards me – that can keep happening please). Grrr.

I’m sure there are more reasons. But I am home now. I have done my Duolingo. I am about to finish the my blog post. I have no exciting plans for the evening, though I did get the next book in the Rivers of London series. So that is pretty exciting.

I was going to cook tonight – heat up an empanada, make some rice, maybe a small salad. But I just didn’t feel like cooking. So I went to Phoenix Flavor and got some bbq. Debating the salad…

Augustus for President: The only big thing today was deciding I was tired of waiting for other people to help me out with my thoughts document. People are so disappointing. Maybe I was crazy to even ask the people I did ask. Two of them had no job so I thought they might have plenty of time. The other was a student and she didn’t seem thrilled about helping in any case. Whatever. All my thoughts are in the database now. I just have to continue going through it and assigning types of thoughts and cleaning it up. 600 some records. I have done about 100 of them. I hope there is some pithy stuff in there.