Who Paid His Bills?

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That’s right, one of the exciting tasks I accomplished this morning was to pay most of my bills. I like to pay them in as close to one fell swoop so I don’t have to think about them constantly. And I have a decent number of bills. Lots of moving parts. Most of the bills are paid electronically by the bank. A few the bank mails. I don’t understand how that can be the case in 2026, but who am I to say? I almost forgot to pay the water bill. It comes quarterly and is always a bit of a surprise. I hope that it goes down a smidgen when my boarder leaves. Not that it is particularly exorbitant. Still, any lessened bill is better than no lessened bill. I hate having to count shekels.

The morning didn’t start with bill paying, though, it started with car stuff. I called the car place and left a message. No response. I later called and finally spoke with someone who said they couldn’t do anything to the car until they had a car key. Sigh. According to the web, they certainly can access and do things with the car without a key card. I think they are just ill informed. But that is neither here nor there. I will get up there tomorrow and deal with them in person. More on this in a second. And I still don’t understand why I am not in their system. That is so weird.

I also spent a good twenty minutes with Mosi for assistance with a collision report form that I have to file with NY DMV. He was, overall, helpful. And with his aid and with my own self-aid, I think I managed to fill in what I could of the report. It is now in an envelope and ready to mail. It does not go to my local DMV. One unclear thing is that the instructions say that I have to submit the report within 10 days of the accident or maybe my license will be suspended. Grrr. They didn’t say whether that was ten business days (which is the norm in business communications I think) or just ten calendar days. Doesn’t really matter at this point, but it would be good if they fixed that terrible form. I mean, really, it is horrible. And there is no way to submit it electronically, which would make a lot of sense. And save money and time for everyone involved. Whatever.

In there somewhere, I ate some lunch. I am working through the bag of apples. And I had olives and chips as the rest of my lunch.

More Alice captions were made and applied. I don’t see the end, yet, but I also don’t find the work particularly tedious.

Tonight, dinner with SM. She wants to go to Bella’s even though we have found the food there to be underwhelming. But if that’s where she has her mind set, then that is where we will go. While there, I am going to ask her if she can give me a drive to the car place on Thursday. If she can’t, I will rent a car and go up there. If she can drive, and Northside doesn’t give me a loaner vehicle, there is an Enterprise place not very far from the collision repair place that Susanne might be able to drop me at. If I have to get a rental car, I will ask them how much more it would be to drop the car at the Liverpool Enterprise location instead of returning it to Geneva. And what sort of penalty there is for dropping the car off early, if I rent it for a week and only need it for fewer days. See, there’s a plan. A man, a plan, a canal, panama.

Chicken French

Bella’s was closed when we got there. And was for sale! That was a surprise to both of us. We ended up going to the Deluxe Grill instead. SM had fried shrimp, I had chicken french. A lot thicker sauce than I was expecting. And they didn’t offer artichokes french as an appetizer. I think of frenching more like french toast than this saucy thing. It was decent though. I also got a side of angel hair pasta with vodka sauce. No veggies because I got pasta which makes no sense. It used to be if you ordered an entree at most Italian American restaurants, you got salad and veggies and choice of potatoes or pasta. No salad. And I wasn’t given veggies because I didn’t get a potato side. No big deal. We all survived. Well, the chicken and the shrimp didn’t…SM gave me her fries to take home and heat up using my deep fryer. She had asked for them to be double dipped, but they weren’t. Or if they were, they were basically raw after the first fry. Which could well be the case.

Home now. I’m going to do a little Duolingo and then start the third part of the day/evening.

Augustus for President: I paid my first bill on my campaign credit card. How thrilling is that? Now I just need to get some donations so that I can pay more campaign bills as they come in.

Look Mom, I Shoveled!

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Well, that’s, er, interesting. I wasn’t able to sleep, despite the late hour and the hard living, so I decided to put on some music. I don’t listen to music nearly as much as I did when I was younger. Back in the day, when I got to a new space, I had to set up my music first. At first, that meant a stereo with records. Then I added cassettes. And even reel-to-reel. Eventually it became CDs. And now, everything seems to be streaming. Anyway, I played one of my go to favorite albums, Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd. I have listened to it frequently. And this time, I realized that there were actually two copies of the album in my library somehow. That’s frustrating. There doesn’t seem to be an easy fix for this. Grrr.

One thing keeping me awake is of course the car accident. Reliving the accident of course is never pleasant. And then all the other stuff that is added on top of that this time. Two tickets aren’t making me happy. Not only the cost, but just the whole pain in the butt of either pleading guilty through the mail or going in person to the court house. Neither option seems optimal. And I have to report something to the DMV. And then there is the uncertainty of what I will be doing about a vehicle for the very near future. Yay, lots of thoughts to skitter around in my noggin.

In any case, when I get up tomorrow it will be another day. And it looks like the worst of the big bad winter storm is over for my part of the state. We got what looks like about 6-8 inches. Though my phone seems to think we got 19 inches. I wonder if my boarder will shovel. Hahahahaha. Anyway, since it will be a business day, I can start dealing with the next phase of the whole car accident crap.

And now I am up. I had a long call with the insurance company. We kept talking over each other. Maybe there was some sort of recording delay. I also gave a detailed description of the accident. At least such as I recall. They do not pay for rental cars, as that coverage was not part of my insurance package apparently. The person I spoke with said that he would take care of getting the car to Northside and to sending Northside the “ok to estimate” documentation. We shall see what happens. As I told the guy, I don’t really need to be anywhere until Friday at this point. And it is only Monday. I could use a nap.

I checked the status of the claim and…no new tow order has been put into the system. Grrr.

One of the nice things about the weather being so cold is that the snow has stayed fluffy. We got about 6-8″ from what I can tell. I went out to shovel and the shovel was missing. Could someone have stolen it? I went outside to look to see what I was dealing with in terms of snow, and there was the snow shovel, leaning up against the back of my boarder’s car. She is not so good at putting things away. I wonder why that is. Not that I am the best at it, but I am better than she is. I shoveled a path from the sidewalk to my front door steps. And I broke the ridge that might have stopped her from backing her car out this morning. I shouldn’t be shoveling though at my ripe old age…and my snowblower is broken…

A shovel’s width is all I am willing to do.

In adding legible captions to the Alice film, I have come upon a debatable issue. Do I edit out mistakes and egregious burns? Or do I leave it as is as a historical document as to what I actually turned in to my senior study advisor? I am leaning towards the former. The latter exists on numerous DVDs around the country as I gave them out as Christmas presents years ago.

And I did it. I edited out a few frames. So far…

More on the accident. Isn’t this exciting? So, the Tesla app tells me where my car is. And it is still in Seneca Falls. I downloaded the State Farm app and checked the status and I didn’t see a new tow request on there. I called Caleb and didn’t get him. I got someone else. She discovered that a tow had been dispatched at 12:13 and was supposed to get to the car place in Seneca Falls at 2:13. I called at 3:45 and the tow truck had still not picked up the car. This is frustrating. Life is that way sometimes. Gives me time to work on other stuff. I will check the apps (State Farm and Tesla) in the morning and see what is what. Oh, and the reason that the app didn’t show an update is because some system is down at State Farm so they requested the tow in some other way. Sigh. Yay technology?

Ok, time to dine. I am having one of my homemade frozen empanada like things. I’m debating whether or not I am going to make rice to go with it. Probably won’t…

Augustus for President: I am putting myself out there again by telling my high school class notes author that I am running for President. And I gave him my website. I wonder if that is going to make the notes page. Doubtful. But that’s ok. If you couldn’t tell, my political work is basically on hold until I figure out what is happening with the car. Sigh.