We had Brunhilde from 1971 until 1982 or so I think. Partly my dog. Mostly my mom’s dog since I went away to high school in 1974. Great dog! So sweet. She spoiled me for all other dogs, though I have had partial ownership of a couple of short haired mini dachshunds that were pretty cool.
Today was Tuesday and I did not have a long dash day. Yippee! In fact, the first dash session was terrible in terms of money. Luckily, the distance traversed was not great. Because…Someone who shall remain nameless forgot to plug their car in last night – despite the 10:30 pm alert. I think s/he looked at it and said, aha, yes, the car is not plugged in and then didn’t move…which meant that when they went to start their morning drive, the car was at 40% charge. Plenty as it turned out. Woo hoo! Anyway, the dash was not great and I was unamused. But I did get a lot of reading accomplished!
At lunch time I charged the car and ate some lunch. Two good things. I haven’t been charging the car much at lunch time since I got the new to me Tesla. I also added some things to the presidential database. And had some deep thoughts. I tried the IRS again and was basically still hung up on. I have now set that reminder to occur everyday. Though I am thinking I might look for an IRS office near me and drive there on Friday. (There’s one in Rochester and one in Syracuse!)
My second dash was the complete opposite of my first. It was good money for not a lot of driving. Woo hoo! I had a chat with one of the McDonald’s managers and maybe a regional manager too. Mainly I told them that when the store prints out the ticket, it shows up as ready for dashers which is bad because then we often have to wait for orders to be completed. Which is bad for everyone…we shall see if anything comes of it.
I’m home now. Duolingo is complete and the blog is nearly done.
I need to check with my sister and see what day, if any, would be optimal for me to arrive for my week’s Christmas visit.
I am leaning towards going to try the trivia at Red Brick Pub on Thursday. It starts at 6:30. I’ll ask PvK and MF if they want to try it with me. I stopped in and spoke with Char and Samantha and they filled me in on the deets. It does start at 6:30. It is a paper based quiz, not a phone based quiz. And it hasn’t started getting crowded again, yet. So seems like a perfect time to try it out.
I have another potentially bad night of sleep to look forward to tonight. The person who wanted to go to Olean on Monday wants to go there on Wednesday now. Sigh.
Augustus for President: I looked up the Democratic Socialist party and was disheartened to see that they only had 80,000 registered members so far.
I understand the idea of discontinuing production the U.S. penny but it also seems like a bad idea. Though Canada did away with theirs all the way back in 2013.
Heard a very interesting person speaking on Connections this afternoon. I am not sure when I want to reach out to all of the people that I think are interesting and might have good ideas about campaigning and about governing. Maybe after I have accomplished my first 50 state tour in April. We shall see.
Still Life 