Over Easy

Guess who read some of his book today? That’s right, I did! Woo hoo! I am liking this book a lot so far. And it is the first in a series of books about the same character and world. I might just have to read as many of them as I can find from my local library system. The series is called The Rivers of London and the author is Ben Aaronovitch. The first book, the one I am reading currently, is Midnight Riot.

I just read that Aaron Sorkin and I were both born in 1961. Our lives have been very different.

Today has been a quiet and easy day. I got up at a reasonable time, did my Duolingo and read a bit. Then I headed to Auburn after picking JC and EC up. We decided to go to Pavlos’s again. We all had breakfast food. I had french toast, eggs and bacon and it was tasty! I asked for a bit of cream cheese as I like to put it on my french toast – and waffles when I have them. Two people got omelets. And TC got the Slam – which included pancakes. EC also bought a shirt. I might have to buy one as well. If we go there again…

French toast, bacon, eggs over easy

Now I am back home and not doing much of anything. I will, at some point, take a shower and strip and make my bed. And maybe do a load of laundry. I did two loads last night. Go me! Some of the clothing even got put away! Yes, some of it is just in piles around my bedroom. I might head out to the bar for a drink and some pool tonight. We shall see how I feel when that time of night rolls around.

I have an airport run tomorrow afternoon. So I will dash in the morning. And maybe in the afternoon a bit if the timing of the ride works out.

Time has passed and I am feeling a little peckish. Leftovers and a salad for dinner tonight. And then…I am staying in. I took my shower and instead of putting on real clothes, I put on a t-shirt and a pair of pajama bottoms. I will finish the blog, eat some dinner and then retreat to my room for the evening. Do some more reading, watch something on the box and have a restful evening. When I am president (hey, it’s possible) I won’t have a lot of down time I am guessing.

Augustus for President: I had a few thoughts today. One was that the speech I make at each capital needs to be pretty much identical for the first 60 seconds at least. Then it can go anywhere. And the whole speech can’t be very long. Maybe 5 minutes, tops. Each of those will be posted somewhere – probably youtube and social media like Instagram and Threads. Maybe I will restore my tiktok – despite it now being a propaganda arm of the Drumpf white house. And X despite it being a MAGA social media platform now. Then, when all of the capitals have been visited, I will get a campaign ad edited out of them. That’s a plan, don’t you think?

I chatted with two people at the diner today – one was a Catholic priest and the other was a nice older gentleman. I gave them both stickers. And they seemed interested in my candidacy. I have been telling people – if they see my name on the ballot, to at least consider voting for me.

Here’s another thought I had. No state is a battleground state for me. Or rather, every state is a battleground state. I am definitely doing a 50 state press for my candidacy.

Pavlos’

Happy Sunday to one and all. If it’s Sunday when you read this. If it isn’t, er, nevermind.

Anyway, it was a decent Sunday. I stayed in bed until the last possible moment before getting up, getting dressed and heading out into the world.

On the docket: taking JC and EC to visit TC in Auburn. As followers of this blog know, I have made this trip a number of times. This time, we had a different plan. Because TC enjoys watching football and JC is happy to spend time with TC doing that, EC and I dropped them at their preferred football watching place and headed off to a new-to-us-both place that I had on my radar.

The place is called Pavlos’ and is an old style diner. It is in an unassuming building. Not a lot of seating that I could see. The place was crowded when we arrived. One of the servers assured us that we would love it. Everyone loves it, she told us. And boy howdy, did EC love it! (I liked it and would happily go back)

They have a pretty extensive menu. They are knonn primarily for their breakfasts, though they are open for all three meals (I think). Since EC is a vegetarian, there is always the concern that she won’t be able to find something tasty to eat. Luckily she eats eggs. So she ordered a two egg omelet with spinach and feta. And she raved about it. She also loved her hash browns, which I had requested (for both of us) to be crispy. I ordered a Reuben – which was decent. I thought there was a little too little sauerkraut and not enough swiss cheese, but overall it was a good version. And my crispy hash browns were also tasty! Oh, I had home fries (hash browns?) instead of fries because, for some reason, they don’t turn their fryers on on Sundays.

A view inside Pavlos’

The owner himself, Pavlos, came and chatted with us for a bit. Turned out that he is Greek. He came here in 1966 and has run Pavlos’ for 47 years. I said my one word of greek to him, he responded with the other word that I know and then started saying stuff that I had no clue about. My Greek is basically non-existent.

All in all, a good experience. I brought home the other half of my sandwich. And half of EC’s omelet – which was too big for her to finish. I am not sure when I will eat them, but they are going to be worked into my dining schedule somewhere.

We headed back to Kostas to check in on JC and TC and they had just recently gotten their food. The place was dead, so I have no idea why their food took so long. But it was what it was. EC and I sat in my car and talked about Rubens, who I know very little about. Still interesting, though. Eventually I went back inside and they were packed up and about ready to head out. We had a little fire drill because JC couldn’t find his debit and credit cards. Eventually their whereabouts were ascertained. Phew!

Since we didn’t have access to funds (no cards) we skipped the trip to Wegman’s this time and headed back to Geneva. We dropped EC off at the house and I took JC back to his rehab place.

I came home and did…nothing. Well, not exactly nothing, but you get the picture.

Soon, it will be time to eat. I have a lot of leftovers, I just need to decide which ones I would like to eat this evening!

Augustus for President: Maybe we will need two screens and therefore two computers – one with a running close captioning of what everyone is saying. And the other one for data and information. I also want to make clear at Town Hall type meetings that I am not there to debate, I am there to listen and to perhaps inform here and there. I have also decided that I will write to all the sitting governors and tell them that I will be visiting their fine states and ask for five minutes of their time to answer three questions – the same three questions that I will ask each and every member of congress when I become president. Will any of the governors answer? Doubtful. But it doesn’t hurt to ask. No answer is still an answer.

Still looking for an administrative assistant. It would be nice to find one who would be willing to go on my first trip with me. Separate rooms of course.

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