Work, Work, Work

I have spent the bulk of my day working. Go me?

I started with working on communication with some “people” online. I put people in quotes because who the heck really knows anymore unless you are actually speaking to them in person in real life. Anyway, I am again dealing with bunch of scammers and catfish. Of course, nothing real there. Sad really. And then a couple of people who are real, but are just not interested in me, just my money. Not that I have that much. But I made it a rule to not give money to anyone I haven’t met in real life (business websites are of course excluded from this since I am unlikely to meet anyone from Amazon in real life…).

After that, I worked for my lunch. Well, sort of. I saw a roasted red pepper dip online somewhere and decided I had to try it. Of course, I adjusted the recipe a little bit. I think it turned out pretty well. All things considered. But soooo much of it! I am going to freeze a hefty portion of it. Maybe I will freeze two or three pouches of it. We shall see how I feel when I get to that in a little bit. Anyway, it is pretty tasty. I need to break out the pita (or the tortillas) for it for tomorrow’s lunch I think.

Next up on the work parade – doing things for the Geneva Light Opera. As usual, I am being pushed to get the tickest for sale on the web quickly, now, must have them for sale now, now now. Oh wait, the menu isn’t final. The prices changed. What? My phone number is being used somewhere? And I am not, of course, getting answers as quickly as I would like. So I am just muddling through as best I can. I think I have all the show tickets (twelve of them – four for each of three performances) up and ready to go. Items on Square are really data heavy and everything needs to be updated if I start from an existing ticket. Don’t get me started on creating the tickets from scratch. Anyway, those took a really long time.

Next I worked on the tickets for the banquet that happens in MAY!!! (Oh, and the show isn’t until June). I did one batch and they didn’t work. So I recreated them, even more simplified. And I like them. Very straightforward and simple. And if anyone prints them out the ought to use very little ink. I just finished with them around 6. I will double check everything tomorrow before telling GR that the site is ready for business. (I have to remember to change the website so that people can get to the tickets!)

And there we are. All work has made me a dull boy. No wonder no one wants to date me. Their loss.

Our Blue Skies are going away for a while again…

Last night I watched the first three episodes of season 3 of The Wheel of Time series. Or the series that I like to think of as a fantasy series with characters named like characters in the wheel of time book series. At least they are keeping some things. We got to see one scene that was a huge fan favorite, so there’s that. Although the series is really very little like the books, it is a well done fantasy series imho. So go watch it! We want the rest of the seasons please!

Go Universe Go

The Universe works in mysterious ways.

Today my first dashing shift was great. Only one not good dash – a couple of so-so dashes and the rest were good. And a miracle ride. I am even tempted to not dash again today, but I probably will. Since the weather is nice and I don’t have a lot of pressing things to do on my agenda today.

While dashing, I ran into my SA crush, J. It was a bit of a shock to see her. Happy shock. I think I distracted her too much though. I like to think that she was happy to see me. Hard to tell of course. Impossible to tell if someone is just being nice or has the least little shred of interest. Thinking about her reminded me of two women who I had crushes on back when I was going to Ithaca College. Loved those two. Though they intimidated the poop out of me…I do plan to head to the SA on Friday to apologize for distracting her. Anything is possible (sadly, most things are unlikely).

Bear Minimum (no lower body…)

My second dash was decent. About the same mileage, but without the miracle ride, so I made a little less. Still, it was a good dashing day. Woo hoo! One more dashing day before the weekend!

I am going to write something sometime about the two sides of Elon Musk’s technological contributions to the world. I really don’t know what the heck he is doing in Washington. I mean, I understand what he says his mission is, but he seems to be doing it ass backwards. Or is that Bass Ackwards? Anyway, there are two (main) sides (with a spectrum of possibilities in between) to a lot of his projects. Way too long to go into here. Maybe a real news organization would like the article if I ever really write it and get it to a point where I would like to try and get it published. Of course, it might just end up here…

Today was bill paying day. And I started the process of not paying for house insurance that I didn’t even know I had. For all of a couple of weeks. I am hoping they will come to their senses and just eat the $73. Not that it is that much, but it is one of those silly “principle” things. If they had actually insured me for a few months and I had underpaid them somehow, then great. But to charge me any money for not insuring me – that’s just not cricket. The rules of which I don’t really know, despite having spent a year in England as a child…

There are two scammers trying to get my phone number again. I wish that there was a way to use whatsapp without exposing my phone number to them. Just to see what they do. But there isn’t. Sigh. I think the same is true on Telegram and on Zangi. Well, poo.

Anyone else get a little concerned when things seem to be going a little too well?