Another mildly productive day here at the chalet. Mostly I did stuff related to the campaign, so that section will be fairly robust today. Besides working on that, I haven’t done much. I ate some lunch, more of the pizza. And I thought about spritzing rain-x onto the windshield of my car. Only to discover that it had frozen. The Rain-X container is inside and will be thawing. Tomorrow I will spritz it on the windshield and see if it actually works. I would think it would…
The highpoint of the day, such as it was, was picking SM up from the Rochester Airport. She had two smooth travel experiences, which makes me happy. I didn’t, though, go up early enough to get boxes for JC and EC. I will head up to Rochester again at some point soon to get boxes, if they don’t drop boxes off first.
Now I am home – a quick evening Duolingo and then dinner. I think I am eating the last of the frozen lasagna that has been in the freezer for quite a while. I will add fresh steamed asparagus, garlic cheese toast and a side salad to make a full meal. I am getting a little peckish.
Augustus for President: Thoughts they keep a thinking. One thing I would like to do before hitting the road early next month, is to set up social media for the account. I am debating getting a campaign only dedicated laptop so I don’t cross pollinate between private life and public life. I want to sign up for each of the sites fresh (Facebook, YouTube, X (ick), (Ok, maybe not X), Threads, Instagram, BlueSky, TIkTok)(what I am forgetting?). I guess I will have to start using TIkTok as it is still very popular. I will need a second address from the campaign website as I need an email address to sign up for each of the sites I think. It has been so long since I signed up for a social media platform…Maybe I will call that one Webmaster or Tech Maven or something.
I bought another gadget to use while on the road. This one is supposed to track my face as I move, which ought to be interesting. Tonight and tomorrow, I am going to test out all the gear and see what happens. I need to figure out the optimal distance from me to the phone/camera so that I can have a decent looking image to use. I think a medium closeup would be good. Maybe a little less than that. Waist up maybe? I can use my laser tape measure to check out what that distance is once I have framed myself well. The next question is – landscape or portrait?
My meeting with the travel people was very short. I misread their website. I thought they booked business travel. They do not. They provide a portal that puts up bumpers for employees who are booking business travel. What I need/want is a travel agent. I sent an email to an agent in Canandaigua. If I haven’t heard back from them by noon tomorrow, I will give them a call. If I can find a phone number. It looks like they have a lot of agents. Most of whom specialize in Disney related travel. So helpful. No Disney for me this trip.
Work continues on the travel slide show. Of course, wild ideas pop into my head – like making buttons on the map for each of the locations so that if one clicks on the location, the appropriate page will load. I am also thinking I would like to put the QR code on each page. And I would like to leave room on each page for a picture of me at each capital.
Every Rubel (eek!) Counts: If you are a Russian Citizen (only, dual Citizen with the US is ok, I guess) please do not contribute to my campaign. $10 may seem like a lot of money to give someone you don’t know, but I am easy – any amount helps. One the the statistics that people look at is the number of individual donors. And since this is a grassroots campaign, the more the merrier. Even if that contribution is only $1.
Still Life 