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Seen While Dashing

It has been a heck of a weird day imho. I have felt a little off all day. Not in a depressed sort of way, just like everything was a teeny bit skewed. Those (these) days happen. Luckily, not all that often.

It was a two dash day. My first dash was not typical. I didn’t drive very much and did ok fiscally. A little less $$ than I would have liked to have made, but I wanted to quit on time, so I could charge enough that I didn’t need to charge after getting my tires rotated. So maybe I quit a smidge early.

Lunch was more of my cuban sandwich from Sunday. That was a huge sandwich I guess. I still didn’t finish it so I have more for tomorrow’s lunch. Woo hoo?

During my lunch time, I did some of the things that I had reminded myself to do while dashing. That is one of the great things about dashing, I do a good bit of ruminating and I ask Siri to make me reminders so I don’t forget things. One of those things was to add one of my accounts to my bank’s pay system. Another was to tell GR what was what.

GR had sent out a note saying that tonight would be the next Board Meeting. More like a party-let at her home. In celebration of getting the recent show completed in a satisfactory manor. I really didn’t feel like attending, either in person or through Zoom. For two reasons. First, I didn’t think I actually did all that much, especially since I purposefully did not put myself forward to do anything outside of my teeny purview (light tech stuff for the website and for the sales app). And second, because I was going to resign. So, when I replied to her email, I decided to bite the bullet, so to speak, and tell her I was resigning. And not coming to the meeting. Not five minutes after I sent the message she called. We had a nice chat. She seemed a little surprised that I was running for President (fairly typical reaction). She also asked me to stay available until they could find somebody who could do what I do – or the end of September. Whichever happens along second, I guess. I told her I would be happy to help when I could, but that I didn’t want to have the commitment to help and to be able to say, no. She understood.

Before heading out on my second dash, I went to Mavis Tire to have my tires rotated. And I had also picked up something that had punctured one of my tires (right rear). Sigh. They were very kind and did the rotation and repaired the tire – for free! Can’t really be upset about that. I headed out to dash a little late (around 4:10 instead of 3:30ish).

My second dash was lackluster. I had a lot of underpaid rides. I mean, a lot. One order I delivered, the guy complained that I hadn’t given him his whole order. I told him that I had delivered what the store had given me. And if he didn’t believe me to call the store and ask them. And to call Door Dash. I think he gave me a 2 or a 3 rating. Not that I really care because I know I delivered what I was given. And GD doordash has changed their app again. Now we have to verify every order. Yet one more time wasting step on our end. Grrr. I really am looking forward to the day that I don’t have to Dash anymore. The company really pisses me off. Oh, and I saw at least three new to me dashers out and about today. Not happy about that either.

While I was toodling around, I noticed that the car was telling me that the right rear tire was still under inflated. Despite me having just inflated it at Byrne Dairy. So I went back to Byrne Dairy again and tried to bring it up to snuff. And it still is showing up as being under inflated. Despite the pump saying that the tire was at the correct pressure already. Grrr. I have restarted the computer. Maybe that will fix the glitch. If not, I will call Tesla service or go there on Friday when I take EC up for her appointment.

Now I am home and getting ready to eat the last of my leftover pizza for dinner. How exciting is that? (Not very – though I still like the pizza.)

Augustus for President: I held the door of McDonald’s open for a couple who, if I had to guess, were in their late 80s (or older). They seemed surprised that I would hold the door that long – they were just out of their car and were zipping across the parking lot at about 1 inch per hour – but I thought that holding the door was the least I could do for them. The man stopped, read my badge, shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said “You have our vote!” Only 71 million to go…

Strapping In

I am feeling a little blue – but this too shall pass. (It pretty much has already) Probably a combination of the heat and the pork I had last night. The poor pig must have been scared and unhappy to be butchered. Anyway, it isn’t anything major, just a dip in mood. We all have them to one degree or another, I believe.

I got up after having had an intense dream about which I recall almost nothing at this point. Gone are the days when I wrote down my dreams as best I could upon awakening. My boarder was still home, so I played on my phone for an hour – Duolingo took up a good portion of that. Speaking of which, I really hate the Spanish construction that results in things like Digame. Grrr. All the irregulars irk me. Anyway, I eventually got out of bed, did a light yoga and headed out relatively early. I wanted to hit Mavis Tire before I started dashing.

They set me up an appointment at 2 pm to look at my tire that was making irregular (though the sounds themselves repeat regularly) sounds.

Then I started dashing. It was not a great dash by any stretch of the imagination. I had almost exclusively Dunkin orders and they were not only slammed but also had a lot of inexperienced people working. One of my orders (no tip) wasted almost 45 minutes of my time. Actually more I think. And door dash didn’t offer me the unassign option. Grrr.

One nice thing about the dash, though, was that I chatted with LG who I hadn’t seen for a while. And a young girl who said she had studied some Chinese. That was pleasant.

So, the dash was so bad, that I decided to quit early.

At home, I had some lunch. And I opened my package from Amazon. I ordered some things that were supposed to help sheets stay on the bed. They didn’t work for me as I wanted to lock down a quilt and not just a sheet. Oh well. I also got 4 Help Wanted signs.

I plan to put one of the signs up in my yard in hopes that some student or somebody sees it and inquires. I need to find my heavy duty stapler. I am pretty sure I have one, but finding it will be a challenge.

After lunch, I headed to Staples to return the sheet locks. Hmm, maybe I just need a larger quilt – the one I have I got at the flea market and it is just barely big enough for the day bed. Maybe if I got a king sized one it would tuck in and stay.

After doing my return (I hope – my account hasn’t updated to show it was returned), I went to Harbor Freight in search of a solution. I came away with some packing straps. I have attached two to the bed at either end. We shall see if that does the trick. Somehow I don’t think it will…

Bed straps are a thing, right?

Off to Mavis Tire, where they discovered there was indeed something in the front left tire. But…they couldn’t repair the hole if they took the nail or whatever out. Firstly, it was too near the sidewall. Secondly, the tread was too worn down such that their guidelines wouldn’t allow them to fix it either. Woo hoo! Tires suck! So, since I am coming up on my next 5000 mile tire rotation, I will just get new tires. I hope they have a deal going on. (They don’t.)

My second dash was a decent one for a change. I actually made more money than miles I drove! And I quit early! Not too many long drives, which made me happy. One drive that was long was about half paid for, but it all evened out in the end.

Looks like tomorrow is going to be a crazy day! I may or may not dash in the morning depending on what happens with the pickups I may be doing. More on this tomorrow.

And other exciting tidbits. For now, I have pretty much caught up. I am going to eat some food and then see what the evening holds!