I had some strong and unpleasant dreams last night. Not a great way to wake up. And yes, that colored my whole day. I was just feeling gray. This too shall pass.
I decided that I would try a new dashing tactic today. I would start as close to 8 in the morning as possible and then dash until 2 or so. That way I would still dash 6 hours, but it would all be during the daylight. And I would work the whole lunch period. Good thought Augustus. Yes, it will make for a long shift, but if I have snacks and water and books to read in the downtimes, it ought to be ok, I reasoned. I used to do four hours at a time before. And even 8 back when I was doing Grubhub in Ithaca a couple of years ago. I was excited by the new plan. I even got some snacks together and put them in the car. Then, as I was driving around, I recalled that I had made a car appointment for the tires to be rotated and looked at for 1:00 pm today. Sigh.
It was not a great dash. Around noon I was going to quit, but decided to do one more ride. The ride offered: $6.50 for 10 miles. Nope, declined. I clicked on end now, but instead of ending my dash, door dash tried to give me another dash. If it had been a good one, I might have taken it, but it wasn’t. It was $6 for 8 miles, two pick ups and two deliveries. Come on, Door Dash. Screw you! So, I made two declines in one day. I am down to 97% acceptance rate at this point. Grrr.
A good thing that came out of the dash was Mike at Mark’s gifted me with a pizza! Why? Because someone had ordered it with a stolen credit card. Yes, it is puffy pizza, not my favorite. But any pizza is better than no pizza. And this one turned out to be either old school pepperoni or maybe even a meat lovers pizza. In any case, yum and yay! I guess it pays to be nice to the nice. Or something like that.
The car place was also nice to me! I took the car in for a tire rotation and a look see at a tire that might have had a puncture. And sure enough, it was screwed. But they fixed it. And rotated the tires. All for free. Ostensibly because it took longer than they had told me it would take. I am not about to argue. And they said that the tires looked good for another 30k miles! So, through the length of the trip if I decide to use my personal car for that excursion. Still working on that. See below.
I came home just as it started to rain. Honestly, it wasn’t that cold today, so I could have gone out in the wet and done some deliveries. But feeling gray and being pissed at Door Dash, I just said fugetaboutit and crawled under one of my quilts for a while. I am feeling a lot less gray now, TTL.
During my convalescence, I cleaned all the dishes that had gathered in the kitchen. My boarder doesn’t even do her own pans all the time. And nary a glass. Sigh. I also did a little work on the computer.
Augustus for President: I gave questionnaires to two guys at Mavis Tire. I will check back at some point and see if they filled them out. Since I added a container for images to that database (which took me more effort than I would normally admit) I guess I could actually accept people’s images of their questionnaires if they want to submit them via email. Take a picture of it and then mail it to the campaign. I will think on that. I would still prefer that people fill them out and give them back to me in person. As I think that most people won’t fill them out and send them to me later.
I think I will go to Lake Drum a week from Friday and see if I can chat with anyone about the campaign.
I am also thinking about where to put the blog for the campaign. I have written to the campaign website people and will see what they think. It isn’t really designed to be a blog site. So I might just link to blogger or something when that time comes. Which is rapidly approaching!!
Fairly blogmother, PvK, came through again! After being thwarted at Staples, I was tempted by a shiny aluminum clipboard organizer with two sections in it. But it was really pricey. So I dithered. Whilst I dithered, PvK offered and then delivered a cool black one which ought to be great for the next few weeks. And maybe even for the trip.
Speaking of which, I am not having a great experience with Eon the car subscription place. I will call them tomorrow and see if I can get some clarity. Either I will get a car from them, or I will get FSD and Premium Connectivity for my car for those two months and just eat the car payments for those two months. Unless KSR can figure out how to add that to my campaign expenses.
Still Life 