Happy Saturday!
Today, I stayed in bed a long time after sleeping relatively late. Woo hoo! What did I do in that time in bed? Mostly nothing. I had lots of thoughts and those went where thoughts are supposed to go. Some turned into action, some got added to my Presidential Thoughts document, some got turned into document stubs. I also played on my phone a lot – I have found a few more people to follow who have attitudes I enjoy. And I played a few hands of bridge and solved a few cryptograms. I also started listening the third book of The Wheel of Time series: The Dragon Reborn. Phew! Sounds like a rough morning.
I did eventually get out of bed. My first self imposed task was to organize the deep freezer. Mom had a deep freezer in the back kitchen for years and years and years. It was mostly filled with old milk cartons filled with water to keep the freezer full-ish. It was also filled with some really old food. I am sad to say that a teeny bit of that did get transferred to the new freezer. It will, someday, be thrown away. Anyway, I have been having problems finding things in said deep freezer. This has caused me to over buy some stuff. Like English muffins. And pizza dough. So organization was necessary.
I organize using clear gallon plastic bags (or smaller clear bags) whenever possible. They give a lot of storage and it is easy to see what is in them. And moving a few bags around is easier than moving a lot of individual items around, imho. I discovered that I have enough English muffins to last me a long, long time at the rate at which I eat them. I could them more frequently, I guess. Anyway, I also had way more pizza dough than I thought I had. At least 8 small bags full. Sigh. All in all, I was really happy with the results. And I came to a decision – I am going to try and eat out of the freezer for the next couple of weeks. Mostly out of the freezer. I plan on adding some salad to every meal. And maybe even use some of the frozen veggies I have in there. So excited! Maybe this will also give me the chance to use more of the stuff in the pantry. Which definitely needs some rotation of stock…
I ate my lunch and then 2 future workers of America arrived! I thought I heard them knocking, but Maggie beat me to the door somehow. I had written to five people to ask them to come work today. These were the two that showed up. Two new to the house people. I gave them a tour of the chaos and they both seemed willing to return to work. Well, one of them stayed and I put her to work cleaning the two bathrooms. That’s plenty for a first work day.
Tonight I am definitely making pizza and wings for dinner. I forgot until too late last night. By the time I got to dinner, I ended up just heating up my leftovers from lunch. Tonight, pizza and wings or bust!
Augustus for President: I started to draft the speech I plan to give at each state capital. I want it to end up being about five minutes long. I think I will add something about the state – some positive facts if I can find any. And something about my personal experience with the state. At least I have been to all of the states at least once before. True, some of them, just the one time as I drove around the country in 2002. Others, many more times. Some I have even lived in for years and years. And years.
The people from Ballotpedia finally responded. I had honestly forgotten that I had messaged them. They sent me a spreadsheet of the data from 2024. They pointed out that things probably will change for 2028. I resisted the urge to say “duh.”
The file has given me some interesting insights. There are a couple of states where a candidate can just pay a fee and will be on the ballot. Other states require a certain number of signatures and a fee. Still others have different deadlines for different aspects of the signature collection and delivery. I haven’t done the math yet, but some states require a higher percentage of their people than others. One state has a really, really low number of required signatures. A few states have really early deadlines. I definitely will need a Signature/Ballot Tzar.
Still Life 