I’m Mentally Bendy! (Maybe)

Some people start with a title. Some people add the title at the end. Neither is wrong. And I do both. I’m flexible.

I appreciate flexibility. In mind and body. I was saddened today when a person I thought was interesting on Threads said that only assholes drive Teslas. I, of course, disagree. Especially since I drive a Tesla. My second. And definitely not my last. I can sort of understand that some people think that because Elon is an asshole that anyone who drives a Tesla is an asshole too. And that makes me sad. Tesla has more than 100k employees. And they make the best, most efficient, most technologically advanced and yes, the safest cars and trucks out there. Not to mention all of their solar and battery tech that is helping the world transition to less dependence on fossil fuels. Oh, and autonomy, which will eventually make roads a lot safer. And if Optimus comes about, who knows how the world will change. The jury is still out on that one. Optimus could be a great thing. Or it could be the final nail in the coffin of late stage capitalism. I mean, if capitalists don’t need human workers anymore, how will the people eat? Anyway, yes, Elon is a major dick. And he has helped to bring the nation to a state of chaos and maybe even helped bring about the end of democracy as we know it in this country. That doesn’t stop Tesla itself from being a good company. And doesn’t make anyone who drives a Tesla an asshole. In my humblest of opinions.

Today has been a pleasant day. I wish it had been a Friday, but it just wasn’t. Oh well. Anyway, I got up, did nothing much till about 10. Then I cranked through my to do list. Started packing, started collecting things that I wanted to take with me to my sister’s house. Started figuring out what I want to do when around the holidays. And all of that before noon. Lunch was devoted to eating up what I could get rid of from the fridge – things that might be worse off after another week sitting around in there. And I took a shower.

Since I was so ahead of schedule, I opted to take a book back to the library and then head to JC’s to see if I could help him with some phone questions and issues. He is actually managing quite well with it, despite it being new tech for him. I made a few icons larger – which I might do on my phone as well. I just realized that he somehow regressed systems. I don’t know how that happened. I am not going to worry about it. We are going to set up a date with the Apple Genius bar in Victor after I get back from Maine and see if we can get a few other issues fixed. Like why Siri keeps turning itself off, despite being turned on and set up numerous times. Irksome. And must be doubly irksome to JC.

We also had a good talk about the trip that EC and I took to KC to check out possible places for them to roost. I think he is secretly pleased that something is settled in that realm. I did point out that there are a few more steps to go before the place is theirs. Which gives them more time to get their act together and take it on the road.

Yummy but not a sundae! (IMHO)

Back at home, I continued packing and getting the car ready for the trip. It had another bath. And I already put some things in the car, like charging stuff, that I didn’t want to forget. Most everything else is piled near doorways. I also have early morning alerts on my phone so that I hopefully won’t forget anything too important on this trip. But as I remind others, I will still be in a civilized place and anything that I might forget can probably be found at my destination. Woo hoo.

Soon, it will be Duolingo and dinner time. So excited! I am peckish.

Augustus for President: I think I will hire a virtual assistant starting January 5 2026. Their focus will be on the preparations for the trip to the fifty state capitals (and DC). I still have some more work that I need to do on that. Like checking the dates and the routes. I need to make a list of all the things that I would like the VA to do for the trip. Like help create a press release and distribute them. Come up with a list of all the governors and their contact infomration. Maybe come up with mailing address for political organizations and send press releases and questionnaires to them. And then during the trip, make all the travel arrangements so I don’t have to think about them.

I did realize that I know more people in more places that I had originally thought I did. So maybe 10 people who live within striking distance of capitals. If all those people let me stay with them, that could save me at least $1,000 which would be great! I might know more, but those are the ones that have come to mind so far.

I can get J&G and J&P to fill out my forms maybe over the holidays maybe.

Yet another decent travel day!

Totally ready for an early night tonight. I am exhausted.

It was a pleasant travel day, generally. No rushing, no delayed or confusing flights. Yes, EC did get lost briefly, but that could happen to anyone in O’Hare I think. We had a pusher from the Phillipines and one from Algeria today. And we had two pushers, sort of in Rochester.

We were greeted with some poor road conditions here in Geneva upon our return. But we made it where we needed to go safely! Woo hoo!

I am home now and going to watch a couple episodes of the West Wing and then I will be sleeping happily, I hope, in my own bed! Night night!

Me and the closest I am getting to a girlfriend it seems…

Augustus for President: I told a couple of kids about my candidacy. And I had a lot of thoughts that I put into the database this morning at 4 am local time. Yay.

Here, There and Back again

Today’s excitement revolved around visiting different living situations for EC and JC here in KC, Kansas City.

I didn’t sleep particularly well. Not sure what that was about. I woke up quite a few times. Actually staying up for an hour or so around 6 am local time. After doing my Duolingo, I did manage to get back to sleep until close to 8 or even 8:30.

We headed out around 9:30 am. First stop, visiting the apartment of a family friend to check out his building. Nice space for an apartment. It would be a good interim space if a space in a place with more facilities isn’t available when JC and EC are ready to move.

Fun door decoration!

From there we headed into the suburbs of Kansas City Kansas to visit a monster of a place. It was huge. 200+ residents. It seemed full of cheer. And very busy. Lots of light, nice living spaces. All in all a decent place to live. First as independents, and then as time progresses, moving to assisted living and then the next stages when those occurred. I could see living there!

Off to lunch at a great restaurant called Hema Hema. I am not sure what EC got, but it looked tasty and she seemed to enjoy it. CC got a good looking chicken sandwich with decent, but not exceptional fries. I had a chicken bacon pickle salad which I enjoyed thoroughly. Definitely a place I would eat at again.

After lunch, we headed to another apartment building. This one’s main attraction was that it was on top of a Whole Foods market. I haven’t been in many whole foods. Especially since Amazon bought them. Still, it is a decent grocery store and food place. The pizza looked great. Maybe I will have to try it someday. The apartments we viewed were spacious and light. Also a good space to live in while waiting for your number to come up for a place with more services for older people.

The last place we visited was a smaller complex located in downtown Kansas City MO. This one felt much more homey than the large suburban place. Many fewer units. Also with the feature of being able to move into progressively more service type areas. Again, a place that I wouldn’t mind living. Oh, both places were pretty pricey. Not sure I will be able to afford getting old at this point! I might have to live in a converted Motel 6. Luckily, it is not my decision to make for EC and JC.

Back at the apartment, it is nap time. And later we will be heading out to dinner.

Dinner was at the Kemper Museum. Cool museum. Interesting menu. Very locally sourced and themed. We all ordered different things and mostly tasted everyone else’s dishes. Except no one wanted to taste my venison. Their loss. Everything was very tasty. I ate too much, but I’m ok with that.

Augustus for President: Didn’t do much or think too much about the campaign. I wore my badge and a few people noticed it. But today was all about getting EC to visit a variety of places to see if any of them resonated with her. The last place we went was the one I liked best. And, as it turned out, EC agreed.

Travel Day!

Today was a travel day, hence the late post.

Got up at 6 (!) and didn’t go back to sleep. Why? Because I had to be out of the house around 8:15 in order to get to EC’s to pick her up for our trip. But that gave me lots of time to chill out and do some Duolingo before hitting the road. I am in another weekly quest with another person who is not doing Duolingo currently. Maybe they did in the past. Maybe they will in the future. But right now, I get to do the whole quest on my own. Luckily it isn’t anything too crazy and I will finish it. Still, it is irksome to be matched with these people. I am stopping following them so hopefully I won’t get stuck with them in the future.

I got out when I wanted to and got EC and we headed to the ROC airport. Dropped her off and parked in the garage. I have no idea how expensive that is going to be, but I really couldn’t care much less. This trip is about convenience, not about parsimony.

We went to the check in counter and were basically waived away and told that a wheel chair plus attendant would come get us. Paul arrived and whisked us through the TSA check point. EC got inspected a bit and I got patted down. No idea why. But since we hadn’t had to to wait in line, that little delay wasn’t bothersome. On the way to the gate, I sprung for some water and a brownie. Any guesses how much that cost? $13!! Insane.

We were, obviously, very early. But I always prefer to be early than on time. And late. Since I was traveling with someone who needed extra time to get down the jetway, we boarded the plane first. So our bags made it into the overhead easily. Quick flight with nothing too exciting to report. At O’Hare, we were greeted by a young women from a country I had never really registered before (Kyrgyzstan). Her English was great. She also spoke her native language and some Russian and seemed a little surprised that I spoke some Russian. I really need to get back to that. There were three other passengers on the little electric cart she maneuvered through the crazy airport that is O’Hare. I am very glad that we had her. It was a long, long way from our gate to the next gate. Even I would have been exhausted by the time we had reached it. Sadly, we were at the end of a section and there was no food easily available. EC had bought some food and I had the brownie and some snacks I had brought. And the outrageous water. so we survived.

On the next flight, we boarded on time. If I had brought my new suitcase, it probably would have had to have been checked on the jetway because the overhead bins were teeny! My backpack barely fit. EC’s bag was also small enough. Phew! We had to sit at the gate for a longish while while maintenance did its thing. Eventually, into the air we went. The flight was uneventful. Enough turbulence that we didn’t get a drink service, but that’s ok. I napped for most of the flight.

Cool Sculpture in the new Kansas City Airport

Our next wheelchair pusher was from Ethiopia. What an international day! And our Uber driver, who was laquacious and knowledgable was from Pakistan, though he had been away from there almost fifty years, whisked us from the airport to our destination. Taking a detour through Kansas City Kansas as a bridge was backed up and would have added 20 minutes to the ride.

At the C’s building, we had a lovely pasta dinner and great chat. But now I am a bit tired. Though I think a walk would be a good thing after all that sitting around. Tomorrow, off to visit 5 (!) places that CC has organized for us to check out. It will be a long and interesting day I think.

Augustus for President: CC (not the same CC but his wife) asked me about my campaign. I think I gave good responses. It is hard to tell. The more I talk about it the better I feel about what I am saying. Oh, and I gave the cart driver a couple of stickers, even though she isn’t a citizen yet.

Yay Sort of Vacation!

I cannot express how happy I am that I will not be dashing for about two weeks. Dashing as in Door Dash that is. I will be dashing about. Sort of like the reindeer. Hither and yon. Delivering presents? Doubtful. But zipping to places far and wide.

But I am, once again, ahead of myself. Before I can get to the non-dashing, I need to just say a quick word about my dashing today. It was a good dash. Curtailed a tad early. Mainly because I didn’t want to dash anymore. I had lots of short dashes and made decent money. Woo hoo! Not enough to pay for the hot water heater, but still. Every shekel in is a shekel that can go out later. I like leaving door dash on a high note.

After dashing, I came home for lunch and a shower. I was really dirty. My poor hair. And the poor people who had to see me with my hair looking quite so icky. That is one of the issues with long hair – it can look really bad at times. Bald people don’t have that problem, do they? Do they have bad head days?

Post shower, I headed to SM’s to string some evil Christmas lights for her. Somehow she ended up with snowflake LEDs that were solar powered. And they were not fun to try to untangle. I don’t know that I did that great a job stringing them up. But they are up. Huzzuh!

Back at home, I went through most of my reminders and took care of a lot of little things. I skipped some of the tougher things and will see about doing them tomorrow while waiting for the flights. Oh, one of the things I did was to check-in to the flights. We will still have to stop at the Agent Desk to get EC her wheelchair in any case. I do hope that will allow us to skip through TSA easily and board early instead of in the late group that we are assigned. I printed out two copies of the boarding passes. It would be nice if I printed out two copies on purpose, but I did not. In any case, better to have too many copies than too few. And since I am traveling with someone I didn’t want to try to add the boarding passes to my phone’s wallet. I have done it before and it is handy, but…

I will pack after dinner tonight. I don’t have to pack a lot because we will only be traveling for three days, two nights. I will take the kids. And because of the terribleness of travel nowadays, I will pack some snacks for the trip. I hope EC likes peanut M&Ms. I hope that my new suitcase fits in the overhead measuring bins. I think we are on small planes both legs. Ick. I did not book these tickets.

When I get back from the trip, I will take at least one day between returning and heading off to Maine. Hopefully the trips will go smoothly and we won’t get stuck anywhere for an extended period of time. Of course, the driving trip Northeast will be dependent on clement weather.

Oh, it turns out that my right boot is indeed compromised and shipping water. Maybe I will get new boots while I am in Maine.

Augustus for President: I had a nice, though brief, discussion with someone about the campaign. I hope that we can speak again. They seem thoughtful, informed and interested. Good things indeed!

Another possible campaign photo?

Not A Great Pair of Days

I’m not sure how to express how I feel about Rob Reiner being killed. I am not happy. And I think that has colored my emotions. This too shall pass.

I have no idea what is going on here, but it probably made sense at the time

So, the past two days have not been the greatest. Yesterday, I found that my basement was flooded and that my hot water heater had given up the ghost after only 9 years. That seems like bad design to me. Or maybe planned obsolescence. Whatever. It is all better now. My handy guy came and installed a new water heater for me. He even replaced some copper pipes with the new bendy pipes. (I wonder where the copper pipes went…) Yay hot water. I may actually take a shower tomorrow at some point. And do some dishes. Though somehow, mysteriously, the kitchen faucet hot water tap seems to be broken now. If it isn’t one thing, it’s something else.

Also yesterday was the on again off again travel plans of SM. Poor person. Her flights kept getting cancelled. Which meant that I prepared to pick her up. Then didn’t have to. Then did. Then didn’t. Then did again. Etc. Finally around 8 at night I was told that she would try again tomorrow (today). In the morning. Which of course would mean that I wouldn’t be able to get in any where near a full dash. Which isn’t upsetting but it is a teeny bit fiscally damaging.

Turned out that that flight was also cancelled. And the flight SM eventually got on brought them to Rochester instead of Syracuse around 5 pm. Yay driving in the dark in Rochester traffic. At least it wasn’t snowing. But I got a head of myself. After doing some bad dashing – too much driving for too little money – I stopped and came home for lunch. Still eating the food from the halal place. One more lunch from that tomorrow. Then, suddenly, it was time to head to JC’s to help him with a couple issues.

We spent a good amount of time putting contacts into his phone. We did a good job, I think. I am sure more will need to get in there, and either he will do it himself, or I will help him. Probably after EC and I come back from Kansas City. After SM’s delightful travel experience, I am really not looking forward to this trip. At all. But again, I get ahead of myself. The other thing we did was some banking. Which was frustrating. But in the end, I think we got it sorted. We will know in 5 business days.

But I almost ran out of time because I had to go to the Rochester airport! On the way, I stopped and charged at a new charger that has been installed in Farmington. It is a modern one. But of course, my car can’t avail itself of the fast charging. SIgh. Maybe my next car will be able to. Now there are two chargers that are about equidistant from my home (26 and 20 miles), neither of which is close enough to be really handy.

SM was very understanding when I dumped all of my less than happy thoughts on her. I didn’t even get into the whole problem I had with charging my phone today. That is another big fat poo. The cable I was using in the car stopped working. Grrr. And the damn update that Apple pushed out on everyone likes to do this “slow charging” thing – which irks me no end when I am dashing. I am sure it will be ok on longer straight travels. Hahahahaha.

Now I am home. I am going to eat some dinner. Though I am little afraid because this dinner made me ill (I think it was the dinner) last night. And I am having it again tonight. If I get ill again, the rest goes in the trash. Again, irksome.

Augustus for President: I need to have a discussion with someone about something. I am not looking forward to that. Wish me luck.

Here and Not There after all

Except for having to go to Syracuse again, today is another relaxing day. I have been up since around 8:30 am and have been quietly doing stuff. Mostly presidential campaign stuff so far. But I do think I will get some books done this afternoon and maybe tonight after the Syracuse run.

On another note entirely. I decided I was going to have pizza and wings on Friday. From the new pizza chain that opened a store here in Geneva. I knew that Friday would be a busy day for them, but decided to go ahead and do it anyway. I drove up there and placed my order for a specific pick up time. I got my crap done before 6:30pm so I headed up there about half an hour early in hopes that the food wasn’t ready. It was, though they tried to make it seem like it wasn’t. The wings were basically cold. And the pizza was not sliced at all. Not sure what that was about. I liked the taste of both the wings and the pizza though. So I will give them another chance. But next time I will order and then just wait so that everything is hot.

I went down into the basement to put some laundry in and found the floor covered in water and the sound of running water. I thought it could be the furnace. But it wasn’t. It was the hot water heater. Woo hoo. I called my guy and he told me to turn off the water – which I had thought of. I didn’t see the valve on top of the hot water heater, so I turned off all the water to the house.

He came over and showed me me how to turn off the water to only the water heater. He said that I should call the people who installed it and ask how long the warranty was. Which I did. They said they installed the heater in 2017. I think they are wrong. But I guess it could be. 2017 was a bad year (mom died). And they thought that the warranty was over. So I hung up and called my guy back. He is going to squeeze me in tomorrow and get me a new water heater. It’s only money.

In other news, I was supposed to pick SM up from the SYR airport today as I mentioned above. Then I wasn’t. Then she was flying into Rochester. No, she was flying into SYR after all. But later. And then later. And then later. And then, well, she might fly in tomorrow. Traveling in the winter in the North East of America is such fun.

Meanwhile, at home, at least we have heat again, even if we don’t have hot water. I am going to have more pizza and some wings for dinner. And maybe a side salad.

I now try to juggle with my mouth closed – but I don’t always manage

Augustus for President: If I’ve done this math thing correctly, which is in doubt, I think I have sort of figured out what my priorities for spending time and energy in a place needs to be when I actually start campaigning actively. Er…I just took a look and sure enough, errors had creeped into the spreadsheet. I would love to blame MAGA people for it, but it was simply silly user error. And I am the user. Onwards. Ok, am I hallucinating? It takes 270 electoral votes to win. And if I am doing the math correctly, that is doable with only the 13 most populous states. I can do that. Can’t I?

I think the campaign will need logo-ized pens at some point before the trip in February.

Only 450+ thoughts to assign in the ASS for president thought database. Woo hoo.

Just The Way I Like

Today was a day just how I like them. Well, one sort of day at least. A quiet day. So this will be a pretty short post I’m thinking.

I got up, did some books, ate some lunch (two slices of pizza) and then I did more books. All while watching episodes of The West Wing. I opened Netflix and found that all of The West Wing‘s seven seasons are available. So excited! I had forgotten most of the show – with a few high points here and there that I do remember.

And that’s it. How is that for excitement?

I guess we wanted to be firemen at some point

Augustus for President: Yup, I did almost nothing today. Though I did think about working more on the database of thoughts. That’s something, right? Wait, does watching The West Wing count as working on my campaign? I think it does…

Fun Filled Friday

My mind is a mysterious thing. Most people’s are, I think. Anyway, I was driving back from the Syracuse airport and plugged my phone into the charging cable and nothing happened. I tried every trick I knew and nothing. I was despairing because I had a long drive ahead of me and wanted to listen to my book, through my iPhone. But I was reluctant to do this because I didn’t want to run out of charge for my phone. Then a little electric light bulb went off in my brain. I could just take the phone out of its case (there is a large magnet on the back that interferes) and then use the magsafe charging that exists in the car. Woo hoo! And since I wasn’t dashing, I didn’t need to constantly look at my phone, so the phone was comfortable down there. Problem resolved happily!

Yes, I had a drive to Syracuse to start my morning. Then I headed to the outlet malls to see if the Samsonite Luggage outlet still existed. It didn’t. Sigh. Onwards, to Rochester for my car appointment. I got there an hour early and the tech staff were all at lunch. Off to find food. My first thought was to find a McDonald’s up in Rochester to see if they were better stocked on Grinch socks than Geneva. They weren’t. My fall back lunch option was a kebob place down the road from the Tesla service center. I had eaten there once before and enjoyed it, so why not? Way too much food for one meal, but that’s ok by me as you well know.

The service was done really quickly. And painlessly. So far, so good. The horn seems to work. And I hope it will keep working when its been sitting in the cold for a long while. Hope springs eternal.

After the Tesla experience, where I gave out more campaign stickers, I headed to the Eastview Mall to charge and to see if they had a suitcase that I liked. On the drive, I checked and it turned out that I didn’t need to charge after all. I could stop at Eastview and get home with a decent amount of charge left. So no supercharging for me! Woo hoo.

The store I was heading to was Macy’s. I had done a search for best carry ons and one was mentioned and happened to be sold at Macy’s. In the store, a nice man helped me look at bags. I ended up getting one that was different from the one I had gone to the store to purchase. Same price. Just a little more interesting looking than the one I was going to get. I keep looking at it and thinking that it is way too large to be allowed to be a carry on. So I am going to go to the airport early on Sunday when I am to pick SM up and make sure that it fits in the carry on sizing thingy. Am I crazy? Yes, yes I am.

Doesn’t it look huge?

Back home, I found I had gotten my clipboard pen leashes. (yay) They came in separate pieces that I have to put together. Also the loops are way too big for normal sized pens. Even the pens that came with the leashes are too small in diameter and I had to stick the pen holding loop up under the clip – they are retractable pens. Sigh. Not thrilled. Life is that way.

I am having pizza from the newest pizza place in town tonight. A woman I know who used to work at Char is working there now. Her name, unfortunately, escapes me. Though she kept calling me by name. I hate it when that happens. I gave her a campaign sticker. And I will be picking up my pizza and wings after I do my Duolingo. I paid enough for three meals at least, in my cheap-ass estimation of how much a meal should cost. I hope it is good pizza. (Good news, bad news – see tomorrow’s post, please)

Augustus for President: I can really talk to anyone anywhere. At anytime. At the Tesla place I talked to at least four people. Gave one of them a couple of campaign stickers. I hadn’t spoken with them in much depth, so I didn’t suggest the NFC card thing. And honestly, I often forget about it. Even though it is in my badge holder.

Being a spreadsheet, math sort of person, I am working on a quick sheet to give me a guesstimate about how much effort I ought to spend on each state. With only 1000 days between Feb 11 2026 and the election in 2028, time is really limited.

Wet Socks Suck!

Why was my pail so much smaller?

I do not understand how my socks are getting wet. I have good boots that I am pretty sure don’t have holes in them or leak. Yet…my right foot continually gets soaked. Maybe I step in wetness when I am not wearing the boot. And because the water might be warm, I don’t notice that my sock is wet. Then, later, when I take my boot off, and find my sock wet, I am confused. And unhappy. And I cry. Ok, I don’t really cry. But still. I don’t like wet socks. On my feet. Or in general. Just say no to wet socks!

Today did not go to Augustus’s plan. My plan was to do some dashing and then go look for a suitcase. Hahaha. I don’t think I will ever learn to not make plans. But, I do am able to adjust and to go with the flow, even if the flow is the opposite of my plan.

I did dash. And it wasn’t a great dash by any standards. Too many miles for too little money. Poo on Door Dash. And despite it saying it was busy or even very busy, I sat long enough to read once. And drove around for 20 minutes, two screen refreshes, without a ride, even though the app said that orders were flowing in rapidly. So I stopped. Fuck that.

At home, I had a little lunch. Yum.

Off to help JC with his phone problems. I thought it would be an easy fix. It wasn’t. The phone was well and truly bricked. Probably due to the new system software that Apple installed when he wasn’t looking. The screen wasn’t recognizing any touches at all. I even managed to restart the phone and still no joy. So we headed to the ATT store to get him a new phone.

Everything takes longer than one anticipates. Ok, not everything, but most things maybe? Anyway, I thought we would be in and out quickly. We weren’t. Somehow I had forgotten to write down the password to the gmail account that someone else had set up for JC. Go figure! I had to come back to the house and check my computer to see what the story was. I eventually found the email address, but not the password. As I was driving back to the ATT store, I recalled what I thought the password was. I was wrong. So, JC got a new phone. It works as a phone. But he doesn’t have his contacts on there because we couldn’t reset the password. He is supposed to get a message from Apple at some point telling him how to reset his password since it is an Apple issue. Which for some reason they couldn’t do at the time. Who knows.

Back at the house, I cleaned up the phone for him, hiding almost all of the apps and things on his screen. And went to plug it in, only to discover that Apple phones no longer supply a charging brick – the cord, yes, but the brick, no. And because JC has only had older phones, all of the bricks we could find were USB-A and we needed a USB-C. Sigh and grrr.

All of that took so long that I didn’t get a chance to go look for suitcases. Instead, I just had time to head to SM’s to help her check in for the flight I am driving her to tomorrow morning. To top things off, due to Augustus error, I sent myself the wrong boarding pass to print out. I need to clean up her desktop next time I am on her computer I guess. But I got home and rectified that problem without having to go back out to her house. Phew!

And now I am home. I am going to do some Duolingo and then head out to get some dinner. I am sure I could make a dinner at home, but I just don’t feel like it. Unless…maybe I will have soup and salad. I will check my soups. If I have anything worth eating, that’s what I will do. Save some money and save the effort of going to a restaurant, ordering and bringing it back (way cheaper than Door Dash btw).

Augustus for President: I ran into one of my fellow dashers who had said she was interested in volunteering for my campaign. She said she couldn’t figure out how to submit her information. I helped her to get to the Volunteer page. Hopefully she will really sign up. That would be the third or fourth person to sign up. Not that the other three have responded to emails from the campaign. Sigh.

SM also said that one of her son’s, who is a political consultant, was going to send me some discouraging information. She seemed happy about that.