The Wheel of Time Turns…

Since I have already read the DCC books once in hard back and listened to them at least twice, if not three times in audio, I am taking a break from the series until the next book comes out. Though that isn’t supposed to be until July of 2026. Which seems like a long way away. So I might break down and listen to the books again. But…in the meantime, I have decided to listen to the whole Wheel of Time series. It is fifteen or so books, if you include New Spring. I don’t. I mean, I read it and liked it but it doesn’t really move the series forward. Not that some of the books in the middle of the series move the series forward either…anyway, I have started the first book. Just knowing the characters’ arcs is making me tear up from time to time. Yes, this is one of my favorite sets of books! It is not everyone’s cup of kaf though.

I woke up depressed for no reason that I could tell. And honestly, it hasn’t dissipated yet. But it will. I don’t usually maintain a depressed state for long. (It’s gone now.)

My first dash was going terribly. I was afraid that I I wouldn’t even break $40. But the algorithm, which had been hating on my pretty hard with the offers it presented ($7.75 to Phelps when it ought to be at least $10; two offers from two separate restaurants to two separate customers for a total of $3.75!; etc.) and gave me a good, though long drive offer to end my first dash. I also had a not so great offer to pick up at Denny’s and they made me sign something. Not really sure what good that does them, but maybe it might make unscrupulous people less eager to steal food from them. Who knows?

Seen outside of Denny’s!

My second dash was weird. I took my first offer, which was great! Lots of food from Wegmans to the Army people in Waterloo. Then I stopped dashing to get EC back to her house. Where we spent a good fifteen minutes looking for JC’s phone which has totally disappeared. Sigh. I eventually got back on the road and did four more dashes. They were mostly decent so I did ok in total for the day.

Now I am home. Duolingo had two very hard daily goals set – one was for a perfect song – almost impossible I think, at least for me. And to beat Oscar (a character in Duolingo) in a chess game. I have beaten him a few times, but it isn’t easy. It oughtn’t to be a challenge goal. Playing a chess game against him ought to be enough. Same with the perfect song. Two stars ought to be sufficient. Grrr.

Hmm, my sister isn’t calling me back. Usually she is pretty good about that. Oh well. I will try her again one day soon.

The blog is basically done. Time to eat. I am making a little pasta for dinner. No salad because I haven’t been to the grocery store to get lettuce yet. But I still have garlic cheese toast!

Augustus for President: Did a teeny bit more work on the introductory remarks. And added more to my second “Presidential Thoughts” document. Going on 5 pages of new thoughts. At least I think they are new. Maybe when I try to merge this document with the old document that DM is working on, I will find a bunch of duplicate thoughts. We shall see. Still no document from the IRS. Sigh. I wonder how long I am going to have to wait. No fundraising until all of my financial ducks are firmly in a shooting gallery, er, row.

I just forked out $$ for an email address for the website. Info@ I’ll need to add that under contact I guess. Though there is already a form there. I wonder if anyone will write? Heck, I can’t even get people to take the GD surveys!! In any case, I will worry about it another time.

Menu Planning

Since SM left me a container of ricotta cheese, amongst other things, I decided to find a recipe that could use the stuff. I know that lasagna is an option. But that seems like a lot of work. I found another recipe that calls for spinach, artichoke pieces and chicken – though as I mentioned before, I think I don’t the chicken is required. I was going to make it tonight. Then I thought no, I will use up the leftover pizza and wings from the other night. And I think that is the way I am going to go. With a salad, of course. Gotta use up that romaine lettuce!

Oh, the adulterated macaroni and cheese that I made from the Straight Plate macaroni and cheese turned out well. I like my mac and cheese to be really cheesy and also to have a bit of sauce. (Which always makes me think of Alice). So I added some of the large tub of sour cream that SM left for me as well. I don’t think I will be able to use all of that before it goes bad. But I am going to try.

Well, it looks like I have dinner plans tomorrow. The Crenners are here – well some of them – and I guess they all are willing to have me join them for dinner. I have no problem with that. We are heading to Kindred Fair which I have enjoyed in the past.

Wednesday and Thursday are still open for meals. I think maybe I will check out Subway for their Sub of the day and pick whichever day’s sub I like better. I hope it is Wednesday’s so I can eat the second half on Thursday. Then on Friday or Saturday I will make the spinach and artichoke and ricotta cheese dish. Or something similar to that. I will be stuffing manicotti shells with whatever I come up with. And then, I don’t know, maybe a red sauce on top? Or maybe a pesto sauce – but way watered down. Pesto is so strong. Hmm. We shall see. Probably no pizza and wings this week. Though I might have a second pasta meal over the weekend. I have a little of the Alfredo sauce left – if it hasn’t gone bad.

Do we sense a theme here? I often fear that ingredients will go bad if I don’t use them in a timely manner. (And I am often right.) And as long time followers of this boringest blog on the planet know, I am not a fan of wasting food. Even third tier ingredients. Like sauces.

Sometimes I photograph well – was this one of those times?

Today, I managed to do a few little things around the house. I was invited to take AD out for a bit, but I passed. The day was so nice, that I actually got out and mowed a bit. I figure I’ll mow once or twice more before the summer heat starts and the lawn slows down it’s growing. Tomorrow, during my lunch break from dashing, I think I will attack the lilac bush in the front of the house. If I am not mistaken, there might even be a tree or two in there that will need to be taken down. I wonder where my chainsaw is…I think the blade is probably still sharp enough to bring down a couple of little trees.

New plans for curtains on the porch. I think I will add the new grey curtains to one of the three windows on the East side of the porch. And I will move the two curtains that PvK gave me before from the living room, where I haven’t really used them, to the doors on the West side of the porch. And I think I will need to get a security camera out on that porch, so I can see if someone comes on there looking for me. I think that will obviate the need for the reflective film I was thinking of using on those porch doors.

I also read a bit today. And played a bit. I am taking the game slowly so far. Trying not to get ahead of myself too much. And at the same time, trying to beef up my character. As I have said, I prefer to be overpowered to underpowered.

And there we have it. I don’t know about you, but I was thrilled to not be dashing today! Woo hoo! It would be nice to never have to dash again. But I still don’t know what else I would do to bring in the pizza dough…

Lackluster

Not my hair. My hair is lustrous, recently washed and fluffed! Woo hoo! No, it is today’s first dashing shift that was lackluster. Actually all this week’s dashes have been less than average in terms of financial earnings. Poo. Hopefully the week will pick up. Maybe there are too many dashers again. Or there are too few people ordering from Door Dash. Who knows? I certainly don’t.

The electrician flaked. Again. Grrr. It has been a few months since he put in the new panel. And he doesn’t seem to want to bring his hired hands to do the remaining labeling work. Which he ought to do, imho. Sigh. I am way too nice.

I made sauces at lunch today. I watched a good video on making restaurant style egg rolls and in that video he also talked about making duck sauce and the hot mustard sauce that sometimes comes with egg rolls from the restaurant. I used raspberry jam instead of apricot preserves. And did not add apple sauce, as I, sadly, ate up what little applesauce I had last night. I am planning on having Chinese food for dinner tonight, including an egg roll, so thought that making the sauces would be a good idea. I also took the opportunity to make up some more caesar salad dressing. Now I can’t wait for dinner time…

And now it is has gotten late. How did that happen?

The second dash was not optimal – two declines and a lot of not very lucrative rides. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.

Who likes waiting for someone to call them back? No one. No one likes that. I am waiting for three call backs (calls back?), at least. And will call again tomorrow. Why not? What have I got to lose except sleep?

I did laundry today! I have not done it in a bit. And I still haven’t run out of clean stuff. Not a good sign. Way too much stuff in my world. Anyway, it is all folded even. Ready to go upstairs and be put away. Someday. I did come across a $5 bill in the wash today! Pennies from heaven. Or something like that.

So cute!

Tonight I had a Chinese-esque dinner. I bought General Tso’s Chicken from La Choy. Turned out to basically be saucy nugs. Not nearly thick and gooey enough I don’t think. With it I had one of my frozen eggrolls. With my homemade duck sauce. That turned out decently. The mustard, not so much. I might just stick with Dijon.

Ok, so the launch date of the IFT has been teased for the 13th of October, which is less than a week away. I doubt I will fly down there if that is what happens. I mean, seriously, most of us need time to arrange travel and can’t travel at the drop of the hat without breaking the bank. So to speak. Grrr.

I think that’s two grrrr’s (now three) in one post. I guess I am holding onto a lot of residual anger over daddy issues. Or not.

There we have it. I think I will do accounts tomorrow at lunch time during the brightness of the day. Back to Invasion on Apple TV.