Last night I finished shelf 16 of 17 of the books on the back stairs shelves. I hope to finish the last shelf tonight. And if the estimate of the number of books in the house is anywhere near correct (hahahaha) I will have catalogued one tenth of the books. Around 1500. That’s a good start, in my humble opinion. (imho) Woo hoo!
I also scanned a bunch of pictures last night. Yes, I am on a productive roll.
Have I ever mentioned that I am really good at reverse peristalsis? In other words, I am good at throwing up. I have always been pretty good at it. I remember one time on a road trip, I told the driver I was going to throw up and that it might be a good idea to pull over. They didn’t listen. So I threw up in my hands. I caught most of it. Suddenly the driver decided it was a good idea to pull over after all. Anyway, just thought I would share. And no, I am not bulimic.
This morning I managed to do the things I had my on my to do. Well, a couple of them. First was trying to figure out if the trash people would be upset if I put out a lot of recycling. The answer is no. They wrote in their alerts that there wouldn’t be any recycling pick-up for my area until tomorrow, which was two weeks without recycling. Three, really. So, that is a good thing. My housemate makes so much trash it isn’t even funny. Second, see below.
Lunch was the last of my pizza. I still find it weird that I added pepperoni and what I thought was a lot of banana pepper on top of the frozen pizza and the last two pieces seemed to have not quite enough of either. Live and learn one hopes.
After lunch, I spent some time with JC and EC. They had a walkthrough with the moving company scheduled. The moving company’s automated system didn’t work for some reason, so they had to Facetime me instead. And they didn’t know how to do a screen capture on their iPad. So I told the guy to stop the call, google how to do a screen capture on his iPad and call me back. Which he did. I think JC and EC have about a quarter of a truck. Maybe half. Though I think a quarter is closer. The moving guy promised a speedy estimate, so we shall see.
After that, I spent awhile helping EC with her computer. She hadn’t used it in a while and in the interim, Microsoft decided that they wanted more money from people with their whole subscription based software model. Fuck that. I hate subscriptions. Especially for software. If I lived and breathed using Word and Excel, I could see maybe subscribing. But since I don’t, and EC certainly doesn’t, I wasn’t having any of that crap. I downloaded LibreOffice and I think that will do what she needs to have done.
JC meanwhile wanted to go through his multiple address books and see if there were people he could add to his contacts list. A couple that he added he already had in there. I think we added five or so new ones altogether.
But, all that took longer than I had planned. So I will run my errand at town hall tomorrow.
I went to Wegman’s and bought some food. I saw a woman I know from dashing who was there shopping with her mom. She said I also had her mom’s vote for President. Sometimes I think that I am presenting a real option. Sometimes I think I am totally hallucinating and crazy.
Home now. I am going to do some Duolingo and then have Chicken for dinner. Woo hoo!
Augustus for President: I came up with another potential slogan – Augustus: The President for the Rest of US. Any good?
I guess it pays to have good credit. I decided I needed a business credit card, in order to keep expenses for the campaign separate from my personal accounts. I can’t remember when I came up with this idea, but it has taken me a while to actually get around to applying for a business credit card account. This morning, I finally bit the bullet. I went to the web and found a good looking business card and applied. And because of my decent credit, I am guessing, I was approved! I ought to get the card in about 5 days at which point, I can switch everything campaign oriented to that card. I will have a lot of ongoing monthly expenses and of course trip expenses. This is a major step, imho.
My brother tested the donate page for me and it seems to have worked. I don’t know what the next steps are. It’s a learning experience. He also said that my caricature put him off (so I added an actual picture, too). And that when he clicked the link I sent him, he got an error message. I keep forgetting that the website is secure, so I need to add either http or https to the address to avoid that problem. Thanks bro!
Still Life 