I was attacked! 🤓

I was attacked this afternoon. I was minding my own business, taking a load of laundry down into the basement. I noticed that the bendy/configurable ladder was looking like it was in a good place. So I was very surprised when it attacked me the moment my back was turned. Luckily, I, nor the ladder, were damaged. But now I need to mitigate that by putting up a couple of eye bolts and a bungie cord. I’ll see if I can get the bolts tomorrow.

I am still looking for photos to scan. I found a photo album labeled “Alaska 1995 Boat – Augustus – Summer.” I looked through all the pictures cursorily and I found one picture of me. Taken from the side. Mom did not take a lot of pictures with people in them it appeared. I need to be better about that. Nature is great, nature is cool, but human life is about human interaction, isn’t it? Innit? I wonder where the pictures that I took from that trip are. I am sure they will turn up eventually.

Slow start to the day. I am just now, at 1 pm, having some lunch. And dinner will come rapidly since I am dining with two early diners. So only one piece of pizza today. Drat.

It is later now. My laundry is on my bed waiting to be folded and put away. I have done my Duolingo. And I have had dinner.

Dinner was at Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ place down route 14. We got there and it wasn’t crowded at all! Woo hoo! That was pleasant. There was a bit of noise from the football game that was on all the screens. So I guess the place doubles as a sports bar? Anyway, we got there and we all ordered the same main course – pulled pork and two spare ribs. We did, though, all order different sides. I had coleslaw and baked beans. Their BBQ sauce is self serve. I got two flavors: their OG flavor and honey mustard. Of course, I didn’t finish my meal so I have leftovers for Tuesday. Tomorrow night I will finish up my T-Day food. And I still have four pieces of pizza left for lunches.

No exciting plans for the evening. More books. Maybe a scan if I get the books and laundry off the bed. I have my baby book to scan (thank you Emma for giving that back) and the one picture of me from the Alaska trip. I want to scan that one because my hair was probably the longest it has ever been. Or will ever be. I might also watch more Bake Off. I think I am at the semi finals for Season 5. Oh, I am also watching Shogun, which is pretty good.

Tomorrow will be the first of December! Wow that year went by quickly.

Two Renees, both kids, probably both female…very confusing

That’s my mom in the picture, btw.

Augustus for President: I know I am going to get a lot of people naysaying about my run for the Presidency. Life is that way. I am, generally, a duck in regards to other people’s opinions – they slide right off my back and into the water and float away – not bothering me a bit.

I realized that there are lots of different kinds of people. There are leaders and followers. I am a leader. Though I have at times followed. There are also people who think they are neither a leader or a follower, someone marching to their own drum, unlike anyone else. Islands, even. Rock on! The world needs all types.

I just looked and Bernie announced his candidacy 530 days before the election in the 2016 race. So I am going to have a lot of ground to cover in 470 days to try and get to a similar level of national awareness that Bernie had when he started his run since I will be announcing on February 11, 2026.

My serious face

Do I look Serious?

I think I was actually trying to smile. I am not fond of smiling on command. Which is one reason that I didn’t really pursue acting and chose to direct instead. Anyway, I do look serious. Or at least I think I look serious.

It was a pleasant day. I ran some errands in the morning. Got another book from the library that someone recommended. I wanted to see if I had checked it out before and I couldn’t figure out how to access my list of books I had taken out. The librarian helped me find it. Only to discover that it wasn’t all that useful since there was no way to sort or search that list. Oh well. Better than nothing I guess.

I then went to Staples and Harbor Freight. At Staples I bought myself an inexpensive pair of bluetooth headphones. I mean, really inexpensive. Maybe I will splurge at some point and get a much better pair, but these are ok for the time being. I was getting tired of the Airpods. They bothered my ears, mentally at least. At Harbor Freight I got more rubber non-skid mats for the stairs. The front stairs needed two little pieces to hopefully help keep the squirrel off the front porch. And a couple more for the side porch stairs. I still have a whole lot to go on those, but this is a start.

Back home, it was my normal lunch – olives, veggies, chips and dip and hummus. Yum!

After lunch, I knocked a few things off of my todo list. Does anyone else add things to their to do list just so they can cross them off? Not that I have ever done that (recently). I took care of two GLO items. And started looking into how to get a variance. They application is really long and costs $150. I think I will go talk to someone and see what my chances are of getting a variance. I don’t think I actually need one since my property is in the college’s Multi-purpose use zone. We shall, I guess, see.

I have dined already. SM and I went to the BBQ place down the lake a bit. It was really good! And very crowded. Because of SM’s forward thinking, we managed to avoid waiting in line. I had ribs and pulled pork. She had just the pulled pork. All the sides were good – though I think I would have liked to try the coleslaw. But I do always like beans. And SM got a pecan pie, so I got one too. I have a lot of leftover food for the next couple of days. Yay!

ASS for President is percolating along. I heard back from the person I spoke with before and she said that none of her campaign managers would be good at doing a national campaign. And she didn’t want to spend the time to look for their contact information as she had run 8 years ago and had no idea where their contact information was. That’s ok. I would have liked to have spoken with them, but I will seek others to speak to. I also decided that I would go to a powwow next weekend. There is one about two hours from me. I don’t work on the weekends anyway, so…I wonder how expensive the tickets are. I will have to remember to take my hat as I am guessing it will be hot…

I told SM that I was running for President and her response was typical of the responses I have gotten before – laughter. Which isn’t surprising. I think most people don’t expect someone they know to run for president. And other thoughts probably ran right along after that thinking – who the heck is he to think he could become President of the US. I just have to point out that three people (at least) who really were not “Presidential Material” have run and won – Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and Drumpf. The first and last had name recognition primarily. And GW had his father as a former VP and President. Meanwhile, other people who have run have been unknowns. But none of them have really been one of the hoi poloi. Not that I am exactly that, but I’m closer than most of the elites who run for top offices. Anyway, we didn’t talk of it further. Maybe we will again one day.

Happy Friday!

Lots of Driving

Today was a driving day. Poor car was driven all over hell and gone.

It started with a dash shift. Luckily, it wasn’t a dash shift filled with long distance dashes. My first five or so dashes were all from McDonalds! That was weird. But that kind of thing seems to happen often enough. I’ve had it happen with McDonalds, Water Street, Dunkin, CF Luffy, Man Yuan, Main Moon…A lot of Hand it to Me’s today, too. One person gave me a post delivery tip of $10 which helped my $$ total a lot! I always worry that perhaps they meant to only give me $1. Oh well. It’s mine now! Hahahahahaha

At home for my lunch break, which seemed to pass more quickly than some, I decided I would have the rest of the McDonald’s food for lunch. Another Quarter Pounder and a batch of fries. These fries I decided to bake rather than deep fry and I think they were actually better that way. They are way too thin to be refried.

Then, off to Auburn to pick TC up. I got to listen to my book on the way there. TC was ready and we were soon off to the ROC airport. He’s a funny guy. He says, let’s converse and then doesn’t say a word. So, I talk. And ask him questions when one occurs to me. He had the same response to me running for President (Augustus for President – 2028) as most everyone so far. He laughed. I pointed out that Drumpf had been elected and I was better suited to the job than he was in just about every way. Aren’t I? The drive was easy, despite a good sized thunderstorm that soaked the car as we left Auburn.

At the airport, I parked in hourly parking and we headed in. The flight had been delayed about an hour which was frustrating. But we got him checked in. And after “talking” for about half an hour, I sent him through security. I hope he makes it safely to his sister’s! I pick him up on the 14th!

Flers

On the way back home, I listened to more of the book. It is getting towards the end. I guess I will just have to buy the next one as well…

Now that I am home, it is too late to dash. I am a little surprised that the car made it through that whole trip without having to stop at a supercharger. Yes, I did arrive at home with only 8% of the charge left. But that was plenty for the nothing I have to do tonight!

No big plans for the evening. More Ted Lasso and more DCC probably. And dinner. More chicken and broccoli and salad. So exciting.

Tomorrow is another day. Since I am not doing any dashing, I can work on my To Do list. I might have found someone to help me out around the house. See, it doesn’t hurt to ask. And I have to go to the library and run a few other errands. I think I will go on a $2 hunt as well. Why not? I get to go to dinner with SM later in the day. She suggested the BBQ place down the lake. It was funny. She made out like she was telling me about it. And maybe in her head she was. I had suggested it to her months ago, and suggested that she take Randy there since he liked BBQ. Which she did. And she is willing to go again. Yippee! I am looking forward to trying it out!

Tomorrow I am also going to reach out to the two people I know who have done a campaign recently and see if they have any helpful things to tell me. And I think I am going to do some research so I can move forward on one of the many fronts I have to move forward on. Yes, I am being nebulous, but will explain more as time goes by. Happy My Friday!