Look at that View!

Sometimes I make decisions too quickly. Sometimes the results are what I hoped for. Sometimes, not so much. But I think it is better to make decisions than to be frozen by indecision. Though, honestly, that happens sometimes too.

Today was a day off from dashing! Woo hoo! And since it was Friday, everything was open regular business hours. I had planned on running my errands and then spending a quiet time at home, but LD pinged me and asked if I was up for a bike ride. So, that changed my plans a good bit.

I started the day by driving to Canandaigua and back for some campaign stuff – explained below. On the way home, I stopped at the Dollar Store, looking for things I normally wouldn’t consider looking for. With the help of a fellow shopper, I found the stuff I had been seeking. Yes, I am being somewhat vague about it all, but after the fact, I will be able to say more. Next up, lunch!

I ate the rest of the angel hair pasta and half of a garlic knot. And I ate way too much. This was when I was planning to spend as much time recumbent as possible. But no, LD suggested a bike ride. And since I hadn’t seen her to speak of in a while, and because a little exercise rarely has killed people. I agreed.

Lovely!

My bike, luckily, still had inflated tires! I found the basket/pannier that contained the bike lock, plopped it on the bicycle and headed downtown. I was brave and took the arterial (as it is called around here) and stopped at my personal bank. From there I headed to the presidential bank and spent most of an hour getting the new account set up. The account and the DBA for the campaign have to match. More on this below. From there, it was a short ride to where LD and I met for our bike ride.

We are so lucky to live where we live I think. The lake really is a wonderful bit of nature. We road along our regular path, from downtown Geneva out to the Yacht Club and back again. I think we rode for about 40 minutes! Go us! And we chatted about this, that and the other thing.

Back home, I took a bit of time to chill out. Then, I made the poppers. Well, as I type they are still in the oven. (Cooling now) I can’t really see how they can be bad. The filling was tasty – I have a little left over that I think I will put on bagels if I have any. And the peppers themselves are, well, peppers. I’ll let you know how the were.

Now it is time to do some Duolingo, finish up my blog post and then eat some left over Chicken Riggies for dinner!

Augustus for President: The decision I made too quickly has been compounded, making my life a good bit more complicated in this instance. The name I chose for my EIN and my DBA was A is For. Much later, I found out that the FEC requires the name of the candidate to be in the primary campaign name. So I changed it to A is For Augustus and America. A little wordy, but I like all the alliteration. And it has America in it. But that meant that I needed to change my DBA and my bank account. And I will look into changing my EIN as well. On Monday. It was too late today when I got home. Sigh. And I am wondering why my social security number is on my bank account, rather than the EIN. I will figure that out next week to. At this rate, I will be able to start accepting donations by November 7, 2028. You’ll donate, won’t you?

I also made more notes in my docs about things to look up and to do on this rocky road to the presidency.

Oh, I had two good conversations about my candidacy. One was with the clerk at the County Office. It seemed we were in sync (not the band). She said that she would like Michelle Obama to be president. And that Pete Buttigieg, when I mentioned him, would also be good. I also spoke with the vice president of the the LNB bank. I don’t know that I made that great an impression with him, but he did tell me his name twice, so I think that was a good thing.

Not what I expected for the day

That was different. When I went to sleep last night I was looking forward to a day of dashing – no fuss, no weirdnesses. Just two dashes and then some dinner. That was my plan. It might not have been exciting, but it would have been pleasant I think. Not that my day was not still pleasant, it was. But it was much different than I had planned.

To begin with, my first dash was very odd. I only did 9 offers. That isn’t very many. But I did really well financially! That was weird. A couple of long drives that were well compensated. And I had a ride that took me back to Geneva from Waterloo. And then I kept getting rides while I was a long distance from the pickup location. Door Dash adds quite a premium to those which is nice. All in all, I drove a decent amount and made out well. I even quit about half an hour early. Why? Well…

As I was getting ready to head out to my first dash, I got a text from JC asking if I could spare an hour to help him with computer stuff. I said I could, which adjusted my whole day’s plans. That’s why I quit early, so I would have some time to eat lunch and maybe charge a bit before heading to JC’s.

My main task there was to help him change his email password. He says this happens anually. Whereas EC says that she has not been required to change her password for as long as she can remember. Weird since they both worked for the same place and have their email addresses through that place. It was actually pretty straightforward and easy to do – for me. I can see why JC had a hard time doing it. After we finished with the email, we worked on getting rid of captions on their TV. They have a complex set-up: TV, Spectrum Cable Box, and Apps on the TV. Of course there were at least three places to turn off captioning. Which was a bit beyond JC’s brain acceptance level. We got them all turned off for now. I’ve told them to call me if they want them turned on or are watching an app that still has them on. I doubt they will take me up on that, but at least I offered.

From there, I headed home and opted to charge until 4 pm. Good thing I did! I got one bad ride for my first ride. It wasn’t terrible, it just wasn’t at least $5. My next ride was a surprise: a lot of money to pick up from a place I didn’t think did door dash and to drive it up towards Phelps. One doesn’t learn the destination until after one has accepted an offer. The Deluxe Grill just started doing Door Dash. So I think that Door Dash is making sure the first few orders from there get delivered. So they paid me a large amount to drive the order to Clifton Springs. Which is not too far from Phelps. Which meant I could ask SS, my erstwhile helper, if she still wanted a ride – and wanted it today instead of tomorrow. Which she did.

I drove to Clifton, dropped off the food and then picked SS up in Phelps. There was a bit of road that was extremely slippery which neither of us liked too much. She got her prescription at Walmart and agreed with my notion to take a safer route back to Phelps. It was a couple of minutes longer, but it is a much busier route – so the roads were better! Huzzuh!

By the time I had done all that driving, I was down to about 18% charge. I decided I was done dashing and headed to Los Amigos to get food for dinner. It’s waiting for me in the oven keeping warm. Woo hoo!

All in all, a profitable and a good day. Not what I had expected. And so far, I have not been punished for my good deed. Beyond not getting any $ from SS for the ride. I saved her $40+ dollars in Uber and not a whisper of offering any recompense. Sigh. Kids these days…

Well that’s just not fair. I’m playing a cryptogram app on my phone and the puzzle turned out to have the whole first sentence of the answer in Latin. What kind of crap is that? Grrrr

The lake was getting whipped by the wind!