Inching Closer To Cardom

When I got up this morning, I had no real plan. I did have one appointment that was sort of set in stone. But other than that, nothing on the docket.

The appointment was with the car rental place. Today marks a week that I have had the car. Last night, I asked Siri for a heads or tails answer and got heads – which was that I ought to make use of AD’s car. But I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I don’t really want to be involved with him more than is absolutely necessary. I will return the car key in the not too distant future. I was a little concerned that I might not be able to renew my rental, but with a click of the computer, it was accomplished. Woo hoo!

At home, I had a yummy lunch of chicken, olives and macaroni and cheese. Then I called State Farm and asked where the payment was. Not long after that, the rep I was working with called and sent an email – maybe even a text – saying that the check was in the email. And it was! I have set it to depositing and it ought to be in my account by Tuesday. Tomorrow I will head up to the place in Farmington and see what they have available. I am still interested in the car in Albany, except that it a) is pretty pricey still, b) is far away so I wouldn’t be able to easily see it in person before buying it, and c) has no stalk. I like the stalk. I am used to the stalk. So, I will look in Farmington and go from there.

One more car accident hurdle to jump over happens next week. Court for my two tickets. I am not looking forward to that at all. I hate being in court. And I am sure it is going to be a costly event for me. Boo.

Today is the day that my boarder is supposed to leave. She has done a pretty good job of getting her stuff out of the house. She didn’t, unfortunately, leave any of the food that she had in the fridge or freezer. Some of that looked tasty. But the bathroom is almost empty. As is the bedroom. My guess is that she will come here after work and get the rest of the stuff out of the house. Maybe she will spend one more night here. When she does leave, I will have the house to myself!! One more stressor gone. Not that she stressed me out that much, but it is always a little stressful living with someone else. No more renters or boarders or anything like that until 2027 at the earliest. Yes, my finances will take a hit, but I will struggle through somehow.

Updating some mac applications. How exciting is that?

Augustus for President: Still working on the steps speech. It feels lumpy. Not smooth. Or interesting. I am writing this draft for Washington DC specifically. Before, I was writing generically. Though I think that mostly the speech will remain the same state capital after state capital.

I requested this book from the library. I saw her on a talk show – maybe Colbert? She seemed interesting. Will I read the book? It’s possible. I’ll start it and see what happens. If it is well written and engaging, I might read it. If I were still dashing, I would definitely read it. I wonder if one of the other books I asked for came and I turned it down without reading it because I am not in a reading phase…Does anyone else go through phases of reading and not reading?

Anyone read this?

Rainy Day! Rain all day…

It continually amazes me that I can find answers to so many questions so easily. I was having a small issue with my keynote presentation, so I wrote a query in regular English in the search bar of Chrome and the AI came up with the exact answer I needed. So cool!

It is so frustrating to me when I have a thought and I can’t get it down for whatever reason. Often I use Siri to help me remember something. This has been a godsend. Admittedly sometimes what I say doesn’t make a lot of sense when I see it in print – but it made sense at the time. Often I can figure out what the heck I was talking about. Other times, I actually take the time to write something down somewhere. And since many of my more pithy thoughts are around the campaign, I have documents where I can jot those thoughts down. Yay. I know I thought of something just recently that I didn’t get down because I was listening to a video on driver safety. I do hope that it comes back because it seemed pretty cool at the time.

Speaking of the driver safety class, one of the good things about taking the day off was that I got that GD course accomplished. It cost me $85 – $80 for the class and $5 for a convenience (WTF) charge. Grrr. And I will probably have a $120 fine to pay on top of that. At least that is my guess. Anyway, this class was a lot shorter and a lot better than the one I took for Seneca Falls. And it is behind me now. I have sent the certificate to the county court guy and will hopefully hear from them soon with what the next steps are. This whole process is interesting though not particularly fun.

I remembered the thought! It was: I think I will wear my Grinch outfit tomorrow anyway. Just to honor Halloween. I have a couple of engagements – one with JC and EC. And one with SM for dinner. I think they all will be ok with me showing up as the Grinch. I am not going to do make-up as I just don’t have the mental energy (or the make-up) for it. So the mask will have to do.

My sort of plan for tomorrow is to go to JC and EC and maybe be there an hour or two. Definitely out by noon. Then head to the library and pick up the library books waiting for me. I may or may not head to the campaign bank. And I might go to my other banks – just because I am dressed up. When my errands are done, I will return home and futz around until dinner with SM. We are going to go to the new sandwich place that now inhabits the space that Parker’s inhabited. Sounds like a good day’s plan to me.

Whoa! I got a response already from the county DA. It had an attachment that I need to sign and return to the Town Court House, so I will add that to my list of things to do tomorrow. How exciting is that? It ain’t over yet…Not till the fat lady (me) pays the fine…

Augustus for President: Could I be getting traction already? There were two contacts in my list on the website. One signed up for emails. Not really sure what that means, but ok. And the other is someone who wants to volunteer for the campaign. How weird is that? The second one is local, so I plan on asking him to meet at some point soon. Not really sure what to do with a volunteer just now, though. I guess if he is someone I connect with, I will ask him to wear a badge and give him an NFC card and start him out in the world sharing my existence. Maybe he can also organize something at HWS where I can do a meet and greet. Neither of the contacts have filled out any of the surveys, so I guess I will start there.

I sent them both emails.

Also, my niece has graciously agreed to help me with my outrageously long thoughts document. That is awesome too! She is a dependable, capable, smart person. So excited!

Maybe if I end up taking the trip in February by myself (not ideal) I am going to look into possibly buying and towing a trailer to save on housing costs. What do you think? I just saw a cool one for around $5k. That might be cheaper than 55 nights of hotels…well, at $100 a night that would be $5500 so…

I love the monster on the second floor!