S’no Dash (Snow Dash)

It’s No Dash Day. S’no Dash. Woo hoo! We are having the first decent snow today and I have barely looked outside. When I heard plows I decided that I would spend the day actively not dashing. Or is that passively. Well, I hope to be active at some point. (I looked later – and even did some shoveling – and I told the car to “heat thyself” so I didn’t have to clean the snow off the car.)

Lately, I have been doing both scanning and cataloguing. I feel like I am accomplishing things around the house, though really, it is just teeny nibbles at the elephant at this point. But every nibble swallowed is one fewer someone else will have to nibble. Perhaps. At least it’s one fewer than I will have to nibble if I live so long.

Is “less” and “fewer” a pet peeve for anyone else?

The Town of Geneva Court says that their credit card machine may be working. I will check tomorrow. Hopefully it is.

My nest thermometer confuses me. I told it to heat up the house. It said ok! I checked an hour later and it had stopped heating the house again, almost immediately after I had asked it to heat. Maybe it was just bad timing on my part. Who knows. So I just turned the heat up again. I toyed with the idea of just heating my bedroom, where I am currently spending most of my non-dashing time, but in the end decided not to do that. Mainly because there is no space heater currently in my room. Maybe I will rectify that situation at some point. Maybe not.

Our China group!

Ok, it has been an interesting day. I finished another shelf of books on the back stairs. 6 down, 11 to go. I might get another one done tonight. I don’t know that I will do any more scanning this evening, but the night is young.

I also did some reading. And a little bit of work. See below.

Coming up on dinner time. More leftovers, from the BBQ place tonight. Tomorrow, did I mention this already, I think I might go and try the place called Fully Loaded. A fellow dasher said that it was her daughter’s place.

It looks like it is going to be a very light dashing week. I didn’t dash today. And I might not dash much on Thursday. I was asked by CC to take EC to the airport and act as her companion to get her onto the plane. That will be a long morning. So I might not feel like doing much dashing in the afternoon. I guess we will see.

Oh, the courthouse said that their credit card machine might be working. I will go up there tomorrow with money in hand just in case. I still think the amount they charge for court fees is ludicrous. I wonder if that is how the judge gets paid, though. Hmm.

Augustus for President: I am, as people following along know, looking for an executive assistant. I don’t think I can afford a full time one, so I am thinking of using a “rent a sec” type service. I had a long chat with a sales rep of one of the companies today. I might look at others, but he was a pretty good salesperson. I put him off until mid December or early January. The key take away for me was that they wouldn’t do the campaign manager search because it was basically cold calling. Since they couldn’t guarantee the results and cold calling tends to be a huge waste of time it was not something that they offered as part of their services. He did, though, mention that there were companies that did that. I have looked on the internet and yes, there are many. I will need to do some research and see if I can figure out if any of them can do what I would like done.

I also need to go through my database of thoughts (up to almost 700) and decide what might be delegated. I can put a TBD in that field and then a quick search will bring up the list. If there are more than 10 things on that list, the $390 for ten hours (for a month?) might be money well spent. I will have to think on it.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the number one mission of my government will be taxation. We need to get more money coming into the government so we can stop asking “how are we going to pay for it” and actually do things that help the majority of the people in the country. I just hope the country survives until the next election. But that is looking more and more doubtful.

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.

Thanksgiving Eve

That’s a holiday, right? Thanksgiving eve? I don’t care if it is or not, I am going to celebrate it. For tomorrow we dine!

Yes, it looks like I am sharing T-Day with JC and EC and TC. I will start cooking the turkey tomorrow before I head down there. I think the other stuff I can make while there. The stuffing takes no time. Nor does the gravy. The Brussels Sprouts take a bit of time – so maybe I will at least cut those up tomorrow before heading South. Oh, and cranberry sauce – I think that takes almost no time as well. So excited! I do enjoy cooking.

Speaking of which, I came to a realization last night. I could re-watch the Baking Show episodes! I mean, why not. People do watch reruns. Heck, I’ve watched Ted Lasso three times. Maybe four. And the same with Gilmore Girls. So, why not the British Bake-Off. I wonder if Netflix will secure the rights to the first five seasons someday. I wouldn’t mind watching those. Anyway, I have started watching Bake Off again, starting with season 5! Woo hoo!

I did my first shelf of books in a long time. And I have completely forgotten how I did it before. I had thought I had used my laptop, but it is possible that I was using my phone. I would also like to get it working on my tablet in case I decide that I will let other people catalog some books. Not likely, but it is possible.

Scanning is temporarily paused. I am trying to decide how many random pictures of mom I want to scan. I have found some photo albums from her time in China. I am still in awe of her doing that. How amazingly brave and inspiring. Anyway, I can’t think of anyone in my immediate circle who is dying to or would be dying to see pictures of trips and experiences that mom had that didn’t include them. Like a trip to Hawaii that I didn’t even realize she had taken. I might scan one picture from each album or something. What I really want to find is all the pictures from 1957 to 1984 before things started going digital. I’ll keep looking. And scanning, where appropriate.

High School – but who?

The Town of Geneva supervisor lied to me. He told me that the credit card machine was going to be fixed this week. It wasn’t. Poo on him. I will call him again on Monday I guess. Or send another email.

Today was a one dash day. A long dash. It started at around 8:15 am and ended around 1:45 pm. 5 hours and ten minutes on the clock. 4 hours and 14 minutes of actual work time. I did ok money wise. I also chatted with a bunch of different dashers. I had two long waits – one at McDonalds and one at KFC. The one at KFC was crazy long. Apparently the store manager thought it wasn’t going to be busy so didn’t schedule many people. And it was a huge order from the National Guard people. (That wasn’t tipped enough imho) Oops. I think I will try this schedule again next week.

A potential cleaner came by and wasn’t freaked out about the areas I wanted her to tackle. Woo hoo! I think she will be scheduling a work visit for sometime during the second week of December. That would be cool!

Augustus for President: I keep telling people I am running, but not in an “in your face” sort of way. I am sure I will get there eventually. But until I can accept donations, I don’t really feel like the campaign is real. Real enough, for sure, since I am doing lots of little things towards getting my act together.

I think the next step is try and find some help, even if I have to pay for it. I can’t afford someone full time, but I can afford to pay someone to do some tasks. Top of that list, calling a lot of campaign people and seeing if any of them are interested in taking me on as a client. I wish I knew someone who wanted to be my campaign manager. That would be nice. I am sure JC would try, if he were mentally and physically up to the job. Sigh.

I had two very different interactions on Threads today. One person said I was spreading misinformation when I said that Newsom and Pete were both DNC party loyalists. They sure seem like they are to me. I suggested that he was MAGA and he wrote back and said that I was MAAG. Hahahaha. Probably a Russian bad actor. I blocked the account in any case.

The other interaction was with a guy who had good ideas about healthcare in this country. He pointed me at two articles that I will, one day, read. For now, just knowing that there are feasible alternatives is really good information.