In sorting through a box of assorted crap, mostly computer and phone related cables, I came upon a lanyard that I got back in 2018. A Kennedy Space Center lanyard. I thought maybe it would be good to use with my Presidential (in content, maybe not in style and class) name badge. Sadly, the lanyard was too long in its current configuration. If I decide to use it, it will have to be shortened. The lanyard put the badge at below my waist level…
In this same sorting, I came across a few CDs. I am going to try and find my external CD/DVD drive for my laptop and see if I can upload these CDs to my computer. If I haven’t already. They could be ones that I already added to my personal library. They aren’t. I checked. And I found the drive but the special cables for it have gone missing. Sigh.
Lots of little things to do today. A couple of car things – WD-40 the windshield wipers and put rain-ex on all of the external cameras. (see below) I want to unbox my tape measure. (see below) Clean out my email. (Done) Maybe watch some of a documentary about the Kogie people in the Andes mountains. (Probably not) And maybe start work on a graphic for the trip. (Hopefully later tonight) We shall see how far along we get on this todo list on this “doing” Sunday.
I tried to turn my new tape measure on and it wasn’t working. I unscrewed the battery cover and discovered the reason. No batteries. And it didn’t ship with batteries. What the heck is that about? How expensive would it to be to add a couple of AAA batteries? Sigh. Anyway, it is working now and is totally cool. Turn it on, zap the laser and it tells you how far away something is. Wow. And I just changed the Units to Feet. I wonder if there is a Feet and Inches option instead of the Feet and decimal parts of a foot. How many inches is .34 feet? (about four inches I guess…)
It is too cold and wet to do the WD-40 windshield wipers thing today. And it doesn’t look like the weather is going to be any better in the next 10 days. So, maybe I will take the WD-40 with me on the road and when the weather gets warm enough, do the WD-40 thing on the wiper blades then. This is something that I saw on YouTube that looked like it made sense.
Well, triple poo. My 2022 Tesla Model 3 must be from the beginning of the year because it has the old computer chip and the old AI/FSD computer. Why is that triple poo? It just is. Ok, it’s because a) I can’t run FSD, b) I can’t run Grok and c) it just sucks for those two reasons. So maybe it is only a double 💩
Such good stuff got done today overall. Yes, it is cold and wet and unpleasant outdoors. But inside the house it isn’t so bad. I have done most of my todo list. Then I got a message from the system saying that Apple wanted to update my laptop’s system. But there wasn’t enough room. I decided to see what all was taking up so much space. One thing was a movie that I downloaded a long time ago from when I was working at the Smith. Trashed it. Then there were some other movies from other times of my life. I am saving those to my super large thumb drive. One of them, it turns out, has the Alice in Wonderland scene/ movie on it. Actually there might be three copies of it on my computer at this point. The name of the file was deceptive which is why I couldn’t find it. The file was called DVD Video Recorder. What it is is a digitized version of a VCR tape that was sent to me when I asked to have a bunch of old home movies (and Alice) transferred from 8mm and super 8mm film to video tape. Because at the time, there wasn’t much in the way of large inexpensive storage for computers besides video tape – back in the early 2000s I think. Maybe as late as 2012. Maybe. Anyway, the good news is that I found the Alice thing and will be posting it on YouTube at some point in the not too distant future. How exciting is that? Let me answer that question for you. Very exciting!!
Oops, I started copying more large files onto my huge thumb drive (two terrabytes) and it is taking forever. Luckily I can do other things while they are copying in the background.
It is getting onto the third part of the day. I am about to do my Duolingo. And then I will make some dinner. More chicken and asparagus I think. Debating the salad and french fries…
Augustus for President: After dinner, I think I will start working on the multimedia part of my 50+1 Capital Tour (which is going to cost me around $12k if I had to guess – maybe more). I plan to post on YouTube, Facebook, and Threads. I don’t know about TikTok. Or X (🤮). Oh, and Blue Sky. Anyplace else that people who vote might see the posts?
I feel like I am making some good progress on both the campaign and in preparations for the trip. I am still sad that I can’t find anyone crazy enough, er, smart enough to come on this once (well, twice for me so far) tour of all 50 states. Frustrating.
Shameless appeal for money: Bernie raised about $200m in each of his two campaigns. I don’t think he had super pacs or anything like that besides the amount he and his campaign raised. That seems like a good target for the end of next week. Hahaha, just joking. I have much smaller goals. I would like to raise $5000 as quickly as I can. If I can raise that much, I think I can raise whatever else is needed, eventually.
Yes, I would love your support. Those who have supported me thus far (both of you), thank you. Those who haven’t – each person can give up to $3300 per candidate per election. Just saying…(link is the name of this section above)
Still Life 