Vegetable Day!

Woke up in my own bed and that is not a bad thing. I did, though, wake up thoroughly depressed. And not just a little depressed. I mean, thoroughly. Not wanting to get out of bed depressed. There are lots of reasons of course. Here are a few:

• The Country’s problems with Drumpf and Co.
• The World’s Problems (Gaza, Rise of Authoritarianism, Greed)
• My problems (not going to list them – too depressing – actually, I just don’t want to as they seem small compared to the other problems)

And that’s just the point. All of my problems, though real, are actually small. And they will get dealt with one way or another. I just need to keep on trudging along. And, as I type this, my depression has lifted quite a bit. It is still there, but it is no longer debilitating. Woo hoo!

So, I decided today would be a vegetable day. And I have, for the most part, succeeded. I have done a few things, made a few tortoise steps here and there, but mostly, I just let the day slide past. Despite time being the only thing we really have a finite amount of. I guess part of me is just waiting to get started campaigning for real. It will give me some more focus. Until then, just putt, putt, puttering along.

One of the things I did was play with Wick Editor a little on the iPad. I was excited because I could create stuff there. Unfortunately, it looks like I am having the same problem with Wick and the iPad that I was having before. Sure, I can create a file in Wick on the iPad but I can’t then open the file. Or so it seems to me. So, I guess I am back to waiting to see if I can do what I want with Powerpoint. Or back to Swift again. Probably Swift is going to be the answer. Though, I did have a thought as to how I could fake the one page thing with Keynote…Maybe I will try that later tonight if I don’t get too fuzzy.

Augustus for President: I don’t want to start accepting donations until my bank account is hunky dory. And I can’t do that until I get a response from the IRS that my name change has been acknowledged. And that isn’t going to happen until the government starts working again. If then. I know that Drumpf and Co have gutted the IRS. Sigh.

Meanwhile, I keep coming up with questions, looking for answers, and trying to figure out things. For instance, I found out that both Zazzle and Vistaprint can make campaign buttons. And I keep playing with apps to try and build a sound machine. I know I can do what I want with the midi device, but the utlimate goal is to be able to do the sound machine stuff from the iPad. It is either that or the midi device. Though the midi device requires a computer to work.

I also came up with a design for name badges for people who want to support my candidacy. I would love if everyone who supports me would wear a badge similar to the one I wear when I am out and about. The new one has their name at the top: My name is Xxxx. I choose: Augustus for President. With the website at the bottom. It’s a start. I amhoping some people choose to wear them. Eventually.

Who Could have Guessed?

I thought today would be a two dash day. Mondays are usually two dash days. So, barring strange unforeseen circumnstances, today was going to be a two dash day. But…

Things didn’t work out that way. I am not upset about it. It is only money. Instead, I am at home still and not out dashing at 4:45 pm. Life is that way sometimes.

My first dash was better than expected. It has been a long while since a Monday shift broke my second goal. Almost reached my third goal, only $.50 shy! And without too many long trips. In fact, I declined one long trip. It was late in the shift and it was to Phelps for not enough money. That’s one reason I keep my acceptance rate high – so I can decline iffy trips. I think the trips I got instead more than made up for the trip I declined. And I traveled a lot less. Which is a good thing. The cold does take a toll on distance in my electric car.

Oh, here’s a hypothetical. Say I was at a store. And there was an order I was picking up. But the identical order was sitting where orders sit, waiting to be picked up. For more than an hour. The one I was picking up was identical, contents and the person to whom it was being delivered. Also say that they were going to throw away the order that had been sitting for an hour. Perhaps I would have offered to take both orders with the initial intention of delivering both. Then, perhaps, thinking that they wouldn’t know that there were two identical orders, that I might keep the one that was going to be thrown away in case there was something yummy inside. Say donuts, which I almost never buy for myself… Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so…if it were to happen, that is…

At least instead of dashing I am reading. It is a pretty good book, actually. Called A Thread of Grace, it is about WWII towards the end of the war in Europe. I am so glad that I am not living in a war torn country.

And I am also playing with my new toy. Which is taking a really, really long time to set up. (I have no idea what it was doing with all that time…) Which is why I am not dashing. The set up took over my iPhone. Which I would need if I were to dash. I tried asking it to let me dash at the same time as it was doing the set up stuff, but that was not possible, apparently. Not sure why it couldn’t do what it needed to do in the background. Oh well. We will survive as best we can.

Oh, the pain in my face has basically gone back to how it was before. I am so sure that the cranberry/raspberry juice exacerbated the issue that I am going to pour the rest out. Despite my aversion to wasting food of any kind at any time. Speaking of which, where the heck did my last mini heath bar bites go? I can’t find them anywhere. And I am 80% certain I didn’t finish them…

Who roomba’d a lot today? Yes, that would be me. I did the living room again. And then I did the front hall and dining room. And I also did the kitchen. It sounds like both roombas have finished their work. I’m going to check and empty them and set them to charging.

I picked them both up and decided that it was time to do some roomba cleaning/maintenance. Since I have longish hair, roombas in my sphere tend to get that hair wrapped around all sorts of bits and pieces. And cleaning them up is pretty satisfying! I also found a pair of scissors that had been used and not put back. So exciting being a roomba wrangler!

Lots of gunk from the roombas!

Ok, Duolingo is done. There was a new type of lesson today in Japanese. One must pronounce everything to the computer’s liking. That was frustrating. I know I was saying it well enough for a person to understand. But the damn computer didn’t. Grr. Oh well.

Off to make and eat some dinner! Tonight, I am going to finish the duck. And have more pot stickers and pizza rolls. And I think I will break down and make some spinach – just simple – with bacon bits. I might add bread crumbs as well. Wow, there is actually a recipe for that. Who knew?

Happy Monday one and all!