It has been a cold day outside I guess. Too cold for Amazon to deliver a package that was promised to me by last Wednesday. Now it isn’t supposed to be delivered until December. Grrr.
It has been a pleasant day. I slept in. Read some. Did some work on Filemaker and entered my great grandfather’s books into the new database. Turns out it has a cool feature that will make adding authors etc. to the database. That’s cool. I have also done some fun reading. And got a good step on the next phase of planning for the State Capital tour that starts in February. See below.
I’ve been using versions of Filemaker since the 1980s. Recently I got a relatively new version of the app shared with me. Yay! I went to the Claris page to see what an updated version would cost. They have two models. A subscrition model or a purchase model. I don’t want to pay a subscription. I hate subscriptions. I already have way too many subscriptions in my life. So I looked at the one time fee. $625 for a single user license. That is fucking insane. And no upgrade path. No lower price for someone who already has a version of the software. What the actual fuck is that about? Just because I love filemaker, doesn’t mean that I love Claris, the company that makes it. Screw them. The frustrating thing is that now I am less eager to put things in Filemaker because my app could suddenly stop working when the OS is upgraded on my computer. Grrr.
That being said, I still think I will move my inventory to a database I create in Filemaker. Did I say “grrr” already? (Got a bit down this road today)
Another little grrr. I forgot to take pictures of the people I spent Thanksgiving with. How crazy and silly is that? I took a picture of my food and not the people. I am lame. Lame beyond compare!
It is a day off for much of the country. So they can all go out and spend money. Crank the economic wheels. There is a supposedly a Black Friday buying Boycott thingie going on though I haven’t really seen much about it. I rarely buy stuff on Black Friday anyway, as it seems to me that most “deals” are just inflated prices being reduced to regular prices with the words “Black Friday Deal” slapped on them.
Duolingo is done. The blog is done. Time to eat. I am having leftovers, but I am not exactly sure what. It’s ok. My leftovers whatever they are will be a step above fodder. Not a huge step but…
Augustus for President: I am starting to flesh out my thoughts and itinerary for my first cross country trip. It looks like it is going to be close to 14k miles driving. Eeek! I know that my charging bill is going to be huge unless I can find locations that have complimentary charging. Even if it is slow. Better than paying all that for Supercharger kilo-wattage. And asking AI to do the math for me, it looks like the cost to charge will be about the same as the charge for gas. Unless I can find some stopping places that have destination chargers. Next step is figuring out flights and timings.
This is such a fun process. I am so sad that I can’t find someone who wants to do it with me. But there’s still time for someone to decide that a trip to all 50 states might be a great experience. Then again, they would have to travel with me and I know I am not the easiest pserson to travel with.
Anyway, my thoughts are as follows. First, try not to drive more than 500 miles in a day. If the ride is going to be longer than that, find a place to overnight about half way. Second, try to be at the capital building each day around 4 pm. Stay there for an hour. Then go to someplace to eat, drink and be chatty until around 9. Then to the sleeping location by 10. On the road the next day around 8 am if possible – keeping in mind the second step. Rinse and Repeat. This will make my Press releases easier to produce if I have times set out. I don’t have places to eat and chat at figured out yet. I am leaning towards pubs because people are more chatty in places like that sometimes. Maybe I can even contact a place ahead of time and arrange something. Who knows. Just random thoughts…
Do I know anyone who is good at writing press releases?
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