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.