I’ll Never Wear It

I was gifted this lovely hat from NAPA today when I picked up an item to deliver to Penn Yan. Am I the luckiest person or what? I will never, ever, never wear that hat. Except maybe as part of a costume or something. And as I have said elsewhere, we will not be selling baseball caps as merchandise for my campaign.

It was a two dash day. Honestly, it was a little hard to get out of bed to get started this morning. I woke up at 6:30 am and didn’t go back to sleep. So I was and am dragging a little bit. But the first dash was pretty straightforward and easy. I did ok fiscally, though I drove a bit much.

The second dash ended up ok, surprisingly. Despite a couple of no tip rides. And at least half an hour where I was not given an offer. Then I had to decline one ride because it was too egregious – $6 for 9 miles. Nope, they keep offering me this ride and I keep turning it down. Later I got a ride for about the same distance where I made considerably more, which I took. Woo hoo!

The day did not go as I had planned. But that’s ok. It went well enough. Instead of an interruption free day, I had a previous passenger ask me for rides to two appointments today. Sigh. But they were easy and quick. The second one ate into my lunch time, which meant that I didn’t have the mental room to accomplish a few of the things that I wanted to accomplish. Mostly for Augustus for President, but also for stuff around the house. In any case, I survived.

Tomorrow, I will do one dash and then head to JC and EC’s to take them to Rochester. So excited. But that means it will only be a one dash day tomorrow. Which makes for a very limited dashing week. Who needs money?

Today was my last official Geneva Light Opera board meeting. I resisted being put on the advisory board. But I did offer myself as a backstop if my help is needed on either of the two projects, three if you include the mailing list, that I helped out with during my brief tenure.

While that was happening, I ate the last of my pizza and wings from the weekend. Good stuff. But really expensive! I can make it cheaper at home. Though that takes time and effort, neither of which I really felt like expending this past weekend.

Presidential Survey – Who do you want to be President

Presidential Survey – If you could ask a candidate three questions

Augustus for President: I may not have had a lot of time to actually do the things that I thought I could do today during my lunch period. But, during the course of the day, I did come up with some good things to add to the campaign. Like perhaps (I think AH suggested this) that I could do something like: anyone who answers ten surveys (not one survey ten times) will get a prize of some kind. Twenty and they get another prize, etc. I will have to have the prizes made. I am thinking bumper stickers for sure. Maybe the hats. Maybe a mug. A shirt. Etc. And I am wondering if I want to do yard signs. I am thinking I do, but I’m not sure. How does a campaign make money from Merchandise? Not a lot of money, but every shekel will help.

I have posted a second survey. And please, if you are reading my blog, please take the surveys. Thank you AH, JH and EL for taking the first presidential survey. You will eventually get a prize for being the first three people to answer those questions! (If you haven’t gotten a prize by next summer, please drop me a line or comment here and I will get you something.)

Any suggestions of type of merchandise the campaign out to offer will be entertained. So far: bumper stickers, regular stickers, hats (not baseball style), t-shirts, pins, mugs…

Lots of Pillows!

Lots of pillows to help me sit up straight closer to the “TV”

What do we call watching TV now? I for one don’t watch a lot of TV in real time. A few live streams here and there. But I certainly don’t spend the bulk of my time on ABC, CBS and NBC. Do people still do that? When I am watching streaming things, I could be watching anything from a streaming platform or service. I spend a decent amount of time on YouTube. And I have a few streaming services that I watch routinely. Can I just still say “watching TV?” If there is some new vernacular, please let me know.

My ambition for the week is to have my bedroom roomba ready. To be honest, I don’t think this room has ever been Roomba ready. It shouldn’t be that hard. Most of the “mess” is clothes that haven’t been put in their proper places. Pants in a pants drawer. Shirts hung up in the closet. That sort of thing. And then I will go on “wire patrol” to see if I can nip any trouble spots in the butt, er, bud before setting a roomba to work.

Charging my phone in my car ought to be an easy thing. I mean, it is an electric car, so charging an electric phone ought to be simple. Sadly, my 2019 model 3 has an issue with its USB ports. (As many other model 3’s from around the same time do.) One that isn’t fixable for a reasonable price. The reasonable price being “free.” So, as a work around, I used a long lightning cable (I have an older iPhone) to bring power from the rear seat USB ports. Woo hoo! Unfortunately, they don’t make cables like they used to. Or they make them to fail too quickly. My latest cable died recently. I will, I guess, buy another long cable one day, if I keep the car. But in the meantime, I am using the battery pack that PV gave me. And it works pretty well. It is small enough that I can put it in my pocket with the phone when I am walking about. Yippee!

Today was a Monday. I slept a little later than I normally do. And got up and got out to do my one dashing shift of the day. It was a little bit above average in terms of earnings. A little long in terms of driving. Both due to a late offer from Door Dash to pick up from NAPA Geneva and deliver to NAPA Penn Yan. It is so weird how Door Dash seems to so frequently send me on a long dash just when I am getting ready to end my shift – even though I don’t have the shift scheduled to end for an hour after the time I am actually aiming for stopping. But I don’t mind. Long drives that are decently compensated make my shifts more pleasant!

Today was also a Wegman’s day. I didn’t have a lot to buy – eggs and bacon because, well, I like both of those items. I also bought makings for desert. SM gave me some of the Angel Food cake to eat. And some strawberry sauce she made. Which she says will go bad soon. So, I bought some chocolate ice cream and some whip cream to make the deserts more festive. I also bought two bottles of soda water. Unlike Ted Lasso, I like some bubbles in my beverages.

Tonight’s dinner will be leftovers from dinner with SM on Saturday. And a salad. Leaving lots of room for desert. Woo hoo!

Editing is Magic!

Yay! Another crappy dashing shift. Maybe even super crappy. I drove 82 miles and barely made my minimum. So I quit early to charge the car a bit more. It felt like the algorithm was doing everything it could to get me to decline one. Each of the rides was worse than the one before it – further and further for less and less (in a relative way). But I did not skip one. And my last ride was actually a good one. Not great, but better than the prior three or four had been. Grrr. Hopefully the next shift will be better. Hahahaha

Luckily, the long(ish) term boarder nibble fell through. I was having second and third and fourth thoughts about it in any case. And it turns out that the reason that her hosts asked her to leave was not because they had family coming, it was because the guest wanted to have her three children with her over Christmas. I was not going to tell the agent that I had enough space for them all. As I really didn’t want someone I didn’t know in the house for a week while I was away. And certainly wouldn’t want her and her three kids here without me being here. So, phew!

Finished my first Ed McBain book. I will take a few more with me when I head to Maine. But I will start the Eric Idle book this afternoon – The Spamalot Diaries.

The universe really needs to pick which things it acts on better. This morning, I saw that NAPA was a hot spot and I lamented that I liked NAPA rides. And lo and behold, I got a NAPA ride. The longest possible. Not the best, but certainly good. But a million dollars by the end of the year in my hands? Or a life partner? Crickets from the universe. Heck, not even crickets! Sigh.

Art

Tonight was, overall, fun.

After charging and thinking and stuff this afternoon, I dashed again. This was one of those dash affirming dashes that are, sadly, few and far between. I did do some distance, but the earnings compensated. My first three rides were all well earned and in a good sequence. From Geneva to Seneca Falls. To Waterloo. To the Outlet Malls and then back to Geneva. Nice way to start a shift! I think I had a few not so great rides, but they were balanced with a few nicely and in some cases extra nicely compensated rides. Top ten earning shifts I think of the time I have been capturing.

My last ride was a zinger. It was just enough to get me to take a long ride to Phelps which meant that I would be a tiny bit tardy to trivia at Twisted! Two minutes. Not that it mattered. The pictures were of Oscar Winning Directors. I think we got three or four maybe. Sigh. But it was still a fun evening. With P and J. No B I guess. And our fellow trivialites. Good times.

And now it is time to watch some stuff on the ether. Happy dreams one and all!