One of the things that I liked about Dashing was that it gave me the opportunity to read. When the calls were coming slowly, I could crack open a book and read while waiting. Made the time pass much more pleasantly. And I got a lot of reading accomplished. Since I stopped Dashing, I haven’t made the time to read pleasure books as much.
I did not get started as early as I had sort of planned today. About an hour late (but not a dollar short). But I still got my few tasks taken care of. Even did some food shopping. Though I did it at Walmart (ick). They are the only store in the area where I can get Tang. While I was there I bought a few other things that were on my food shopping list. Woo hoo.
Next up, dinner with EC and JC. I have no idea why they want to take me to dinner, but I certainly won’t complain. This will be the third time that we have arranged a dinner. The first two times didn’t happen – once for snow and once for night time driving problems. This time, I hope that it will all work out. I played chauffeur.
It did work out! We went to Geneva on the Lake. I was not impressed. I did see a friend from when I worked at The Smith. That was nice. And our server was ok. I had a delicious bowl of cream of spinach soup. I ordered the pork chop only to be told that they didn’t have it. That irked me. I was trying to stay away from beef for one reason or another. Instead I ordered chicken wings and fries from the bar menu. The fries were undercooked, which was bad. The wings were crispy, which was good. But they were all flats, which was weird. I expect an equal number of flats and drumettes. I told the manager, who agreed with me and apparently had words with the kitchen. Sigh. At least EC and JC enjoyed their meals.
I am home now. I have done my Duolingo and am about to move into phase three of the evening. I hope to get some scanning of photos accomplished and maybe some other stuff.
Augustus for President: I set up an appointment to chat with a travel company about them possibly helping me with travel for my upcoming 50+1 Capital Trip. I didn’t think to check my campaign website for messages. Why? Because I just didn’t think of it. I need to be better about that. When I get my dedicated phone for the campaign, I will set up the email account on there so I will get the messages as they arrive. But, this meant that I didn’t see that I was supposed to call them, not them call me. Which is messed up, imho. When I didn’t hear from them at 2, I checked my email to find that there were a lot of messages from the company. One of them asking me questions that would help them figure out if their services were a good fit for my needs. I called the number as soon as I saw the message and had a pleasant chat with the sales person. They will set up an appointment for Monday or Tuesday next week.
Since I have the new Chrome created QR code, I think I will print out a sheet of the QR code stickers. How exciting is that?
Still Life 