I am in awe of ad writers and copy editors. I can come up with something halfway clever once in a while. They need to do it all the time every day! Amazing.

Today was, as often is the case recently, a two dashing session day.

I was just observing to myself yesterday that I hadn’t had a shift of lots of long drives for not quite enough money. I was happy about that. I thought perhaps it was because a new to dashing dasher I met was taking trips based on time and distance. But today, I managed to get a few of those long rides. And declined one. (I hate declining rides…) Despite those rides, the shift was quite good fiscally. Woo hoo!

I think I have featured this cute critter before

The second shift was a few fewer miles driven, but even better fiscally. The algorithm sent me to Waterloo and then all over over there. My nav system in my car was giving me bad directions. One time is sent me to the totally wrong street. And on the same trip, it wanted me to go someplace that wouldn’t have allowed me to get to my customer. But I managed all the deliveries and ended up ending my dash over there.

Weird. Another dasher told me that he routinely makes $150 for a shift from 4pm until 9pm on Friday and Saturday nights. More power to him. I don’t like dashing when it is dark. And the weekends aren’t times I like to dash either. Too many crazies out there. Me included.

I had to parallel park a couple of times today. I seem to remember learning how to do that when I was getting driving lessons from MF, a student and friend of my mother’s and mine. Back just before taking my driving test (which I passed the first time) in 1977 or thereabouts. I need to remember to tell her. I don’t think she reads this blog…

The espionage novel I am reading is starting really slowly…

Only one more full day of dashing to go. How exciting is that?

I will pay bills tomorrow. Not the tax bill, but I will get that organized. Unless I can pay by check. Paying by credit card would be neat.

Speaking of which, Chase actually is asking me to apply for a card. I need to look at the offer. If it is for a miles card, I might consider it. The book on travel that I started working through (but have stalled on since I can’t get my mind past the few travel things I already have planned) says that Chase points are the best points to have. Right now I have a small bunch of Citi points. Not sure how useful they are…

I finished the duck tonight. That is a sad. I also made up another batch of the dumpling dipping sauce. I think it needs more soy and vinegar. Tomorrow night I think I will have breakfast for dinner. It isn’t that hard to prepare. And I do enjoy it! Friday, I have my social engagement so will probably eat something related to that. Saturday, I might do more BBQ park. I still have a lots of BBQ sauce left over from when I last made BBQ pork. Sunday. No clue. Too far away to think about at this point.

And there we have it. What “it” is, I have no idea. Happy Wednesday!