S’no Dash (Snow Dash)

It’s No Dash Day. S’no Dash. Woo hoo! We are having the first decent snow today and I have barely looked outside. When I heard plows I decided that I would spend the day actively not dashing. Or is that passively. Well, I hope to be active at some point. (I looked later – and even did some shoveling – and I told the car to “heat thyself” so I didn’t have to clean the snow off the car.)

Lately, I have been doing both scanning and cataloguing. I feel like I am accomplishing things around the house, though really, it is just teeny nibbles at the elephant at this point. But every nibble swallowed is one fewer someone else will have to nibble. Perhaps. At least it’s one fewer than I will have to nibble if I live so long.

Is “less” and “fewer” a pet peeve for anyone else?

The Town of Geneva Court says that their credit card machine may be working. I will check tomorrow. Hopefully it is.

My nest thermometer confuses me. I told it to heat up the house. It said ok! I checked an hour later and it had stopped heating the house again, almost immediately after I had asked it to heat. Maybe it was just bad timing on my part. Who knows. So I just turned the heat up again. I toyed with the idea of just heating my bedroom, where I am currently spending most of my non-dashing time, but in the end decided not to do that. Mainly because there is no space heater currently in my room. Maybe I will rectify that situation at some point. Maybe not.

Our China group!

Ok, it has been an interesting day. I finished another shelf of books on the back stairs. 6 down, 11 to go. I might get another one done tonight. I don’t know that I will do any more scanning this evening, but the night is young.

I also did some reading. And a little bit of work. See below.

Coming up on dinner time. More leftovers, from the BBQ place tonight. Tomorrow, did I mention this already, I think I might go and try the place called Fully Loaded. A fellow dasher said that it was her daughter’s place.

It looks like it is going to be a very light dashing week. I didn’t dash today. And I might not dash much on Thursday. I was asked by CC to take EC to the airport and act as her companion to get her onto the plane. That will be a long morning. So I might not feel like doing much dashing in the afternoon. I guess we will see.

Oh, the courthouse said that their credit card machine might be working. I will go up there tomorrow with money in hand just in case. I still think the amount they charge for court fees is ludicrous. I wonder if that is how the judge gets paid, though. Hmm.

Augustus for President: I am, as people following along know, looking for an executive assistant. I don’t think I can afford a full time one, so I am thinking of using a “rent a sec” type service. I had a long chat with a sales rep of one of the companies today. I might look at others, but he was a pretty good salesperson. I put him off until mid December or early January. The key take away for me was that they wouldn’t do the campaign manager search because it was basically cold calling. Since they couldn’t guarantee the results and cold calling tends to be a huge waste of time it was not something that they offered as part of their services. He did, though, mention that there were companies that did that. I have looked on the internet and yes, there are many. I will need to do some research and see if I can figure out if any of them can do what I would like done.

I also need to go through my database of thoughts (up to almost 700) and decide what might be delegated. I can put a TBD in that field and then a quick search will bring up the list. If there are more than 10 things on that list, the $390 for ten hours (for a month?) might be money well spent. I will have to think on it.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the number one mission of my government will be taxation. We need to get more money coming into the government so we can stop asking “how are we going to pay for it” and actually do things that help the majority of the people in the country. I just hope the country survives until the next election. But that is looking more and more doubtful.

Too Many Plans

Too many plans ruins the life. Is that the saying? I guess I need to think again about what I want the next few years to look like. Do I want to focus on this, or that? Or the other thing? How important is money and where does that come from? How much travel is enough travel? How important is it really to have a significant (That is the weirdest sounding “c”) other in my life? And what time frames are we looking at?

Plodding (or even floating) along and going with the flow are perfectly acceptable ways to live life. And I guess if all of your material needs are met, then life is a bit easier. So which comes first, the going with the flow or the getting of one’s material needs taken care of? Can one do both? Because that’s what I seem to be doing. At least so far.

On the macro scale, I don’t know that I really want to get involved. Sure, I wouldn’t mind being president of the US. But it would take a lot of work. Same for Sirius Theatre. A lot of work. A lot of focus. And for what? A legacy? And how long does a legacy actually last? I mean, sure, in some cases, a name lives on for millennia – even if the person that we think of when that name pops up wasn’t at all like the image we have of them today. I mean, who was Gilgamesh, really? Or the Buddha? Or more recently, Shakespeare?

On the micro scale, what do I want to do about my current plight: too much crap and a paralyzed feeling when I start to think about what to do with it all.

I always come back to the notion of tortoise steps. Little moves hopefully in a good direction. Good of course being a matter of perception. Who knows what any choice will really lead to? But what is my ultimate destination, besides death and oblivion?

I’ll keep talking about this issue in the future. For now, I am a bit disheartened. Not in a huge way. But a little way. I can’t find the box of Genealogical research that I had put together. I know it is in a plastic container. I thought it was under my bed. Which is where it lived when I was sleeping in the Orange room. And then I thought it might be in one of my bedroom’s closets. It wasn’t. (Anyone in the family interested in coinage and money – not from a utilitarian aspect, but from a collector’s or perhaps a potential area of work sort of way? – I found a lot of coins from a lot of places and times – I just added some money from Colombia to the boxes) And I thought maybe I had put it with the pictures that are in the front hall closet. Nope, not there either. Which means it is probably in the attic. Which is too cold to really do anything in just now. But I might make a quick foray up there and see if the box is easily gotten to.

I did come across a whole box of stuff that Adele Stevens (Aunt Dell) had on the other half of my mom’s heritage (her mom’s family). Someday I will look at it in more detail. I bet there are a few cousins lurking about that might be interesting to track down one day.

And I decided that if I were to start scanning pictures from the myriad pictures I have collected in the house so far, I would start by only scanning pictures with people in them. And then work up to cool images – if there are any – but I would think that there are – amongst all those pictures, a few really spectacular ones.

Speaking of pictures, about 10 years ago I think, maybe a few less, I scanned and emailed out some pictures that I had found that I thought might be pictures of Pa’s father. And Pa. Black and white images. One was on a boat/ship. If anyone has easy access to those, please let me know. I know that 10 years ago we probably all had different computers and phones and email addresses etc…

I even folded everything and put it all away!

It’s been a while since I made breakfast for dinner. I think I will make an omelet tonight. Plus hash browns. And bacon. So excited!