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…

Step by Step Progress

Three helpers came yesterday and worked on the back stairs for a few hours. It is looking really great, imho. I don’t know that the steps actually need a second coat at this point. I will see how I feel later in the week. I guess I should start cataloguing books. I hope I can get back into the swing of it. I wonder where my book imprinter is…

Looking great imho

Today has been a surprisingly good day for accomplishments. Here it is just noon and I feel like I have gotten a few things checked off of my to do list. Woo hoo!

Some of the morning was spent finishing the latest Rivers of London book: Whispers Underground. Fun stuff. I have put the next two books in the series on hold and they ought to be popping into my local library sometime next week. In the meantime, I guess I will get back to all the books that have piled up in my TBR (to be read) pile. And there was one book that I started that I believe is still in the car’s trunk.

More parts of the morning were spent working on my Filemaker database. I want to use it instead of a word processing document or spreadsheet to collect my campaign and presidential governing thoughts. I think it is in good shape. It took me a while to figure out how to get data to import correctly, but I got that worked out. And with some help from YouTube, I managed to get a drop down menu created pretty easily. So, now I am just waiting for my niece to do her magic and organize my Augustus for President Thoughts document. I’ll write her on Monday and ask her the status. Maybe she will be done. That would be cool. If not, I might just say screw it and take it back because I could just import it all into my database. All that her work will accomplish (which would be great) would be to add the type of thought to more of the items. Less work for me which is always a good thing.

Hopefully my copies of Bar Dreams will be arriving soon. It will be nice to have those back in stock.

It is later. I didn’t do a lot more, though I did a little bit towards the campaign.

Tonight’s dinner will be breakfast! I will cook a one egg cheese omelet, a hash brown, a waffle and some maple sausages. So excited! I hope my cream cheese is still good…

Augustus for President: Well, the database work was a good thing to have accomplished today. I will enter any new thoughts there. I also saw that there is a way to check one’s business account on the IRS website, so I will try that this afternoon. That should tell me if they got my letter and changed the name of the company in their files. If they haven’t, I can try calling them on Monday. I don’t want to start having get togethers with people until I can collect donations. Hahaha.

Well, that’s frustrating. I tried to get into the IRS with my EIN and I did not succeed. So I guess I will try calling them on Monday. I don’t think anyone will answer because of the shut down. But hope springs eternal. And I am now concerned about why I had to spend money to get an EIN when the IRS website says that getting an EIN is free. I am so confused about that. Oh well, it is money over the dam or something like that.

Christmas in November?

I seem to have lost another file. Maybe even more than one. It was my list of who I knew in which states. I can’t remember what it was called and I can’t find anything that even looks like it. Which sucks.

Ok, turns out it was part of another file and not a standalone file. At least I found it!

Wasn’t Halloween like yesterday?

This was dismaying to see. Though I do like the smell of pine that was wafting off of it. Halloween is barely passed, Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened and Wegman’s is already starting with the Christmas stuff. Sigh.

Today was a two dash dash. The first was pretty standard. The second had two really long drives to Canandaigua! That hasn’t happened to me before. Two long drives, sure. But not two to Canandaigua. I actually prefer the drive to Canandaigua more than the drive to Lyons or Clyde. Those two are both out in the middle of nowhere. Canandaigua just feels more urban. One ride was well compensated, the other not as well. Overall, a decent day. Woo hoo!

At lunch time I didn’t do all that much. I spent a little time looking at how to create a drop down menu for the database. And started to look to see if there was an easy way to have a “created” date added to a record. I would have thought that was an easy peasy thing to do, but so far, the answer is eluding me. Oh well.

I got home about an hour later than I had really wanted to. Not that I had any big plans. I just like more relaxing time than busy time. And the algorithm did it to me again – gave me a long drive as I was wanting to stop for the evening. Grr and sigh.

If I had gone further into Canandaigua I would have gone to the Wegman’s there. But it was out of my way since I was just on the outskirts of the city. So I stopped at the Geneva Wegman’s. There, I had a long talk with a grade school classmate who I don’t see all that often. Somehow he had gotten the impression that my American Dream book had gotten written. It hadn’t. But he said he is still willing to buy a copy of Bar Dreams. Yay! He ran for and won a city council position for four years. So I hope to pick his brain a little bit at some point. He also said that he and his wife bought a house in Maine. Turns out that he is almost neighbors with my sister! Small planet!

Augustus for President: Besides the work on the database, which I hope will allow me to import my latest thoughts eventually, I also gave out more stickers today. Quite a few I think. And I had that nice talk with TB. We shall see what comes of any of that. If anything.

I brought up the idea that the President shouldn’t be of either party. TB seemed to buy that. I wonder if that idea will resonate with other people. Here’s hoping!