Starting Scanning!

Does anyone recognize this photo album?

I have decided that I need to start scanning pictures. This is an older album, maybe from the early 1900s So the people who know the people in them might not even be alive anymore. Some of the pictures have writing on the back that might help. We shall see. More later.

Last night, I had dinner at JC and EC’s home. It was a lovely evening. They had cheese and crackers out when I arrived. I was offered and accepted a glass of tasty red wine. We chatted all chatted while they both worked on making the dinner. And a great dinner it was! We started with steamed artichokes. Instead of butter, EC made a concoction of oil and herbs that worked really well. I was surprised that neither of them were adept at removing the choke before eating the heart of the artichoke! We had white wine with the artichokes, btw.

Dinner was orrecchette with a pasta sauce that was partly EC’s and partly SM’s. No salad or bread. But that’s ok. It was quite tasty. I even got a container full to bring home for a future dinner. So excited. After dinner we had our choice of ice creams with fresh raspberries. And I got to take some of the raspberries home as well.

Oh, I took them a bouquet of flowers and copies of both Bar Dreams and Diary of a Plate Addict. And I signed and personalized both books. Will they be read? Anything is possible. I aslo took a few minutes to see what was happening with JC’s phone. Very few solicitations, which was great. For some reason, though, his weather widget was defaulting to Cupertino. Perhaps adding Romulus would fix that problem. I will try that next time I am there.

Today, three of my four helpers from the last two weeks begged off. Though one did suggest alternate times that they could come. The fourth said they were coming for sure. But they said that last week and didn’t show up. It doesn’t really matter though. If they come, great. If they don’t, great. I have stuff I can do all day if I want. Like digitize pictures…

One showed up and we got some good sorting accomplished! Woo hoo! And I found a partially drunk bottle of wine. The wine had not aged well…

Tonight, dinner with SM at a new to us both place over in Seneca Falls, The Red Brick Tavern. So excited!

Meh. The dinner was not the culinary experience I was anticipating. I guess they lost their chef and just have a cook back in the kitchen. Poo. I ordered some deep friend Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls only to be told that they were out of them. (Our server was not exemplary.) I then ordered a Cowboy burger that was decent, not anywhere near excellent. SM had a shrimp po boy and enjoyed the shrimp from what she said. The place was loud and cold and the food was only ok. I do not recommend it. That being said, I might be crazy and go back there next Saturday night. Probably not to eat though…

Augustus for President: JC hasn’t finished his endorsement. EC asked if she could share my two documents that I gave to JC to “edit” (he didn’t find anything he thought needed changing) to her sister. I said sure. Why not? One of the reasons I enjoy hanging out with them (JC and EC) is because we can talk about politics and I can tell them all of my wacky ideas. As long as we don’t dwell on Drumpf too much…

My helper and I chatted about politics a bit. That always makes me think. Which is good. Stretching the brain.

No Apples for Me!

Today I did not pick apples. My friend SM asked me to help her get a few more apples off of her apple trees, the apples that were too high up for her. I was going to go help, but ended up not making it out of the house.

First, there was the whole, it’s Saturday, let’s get up late thing. That turned into – let’s read out fun book. And that led to lunch. Yay lunch!

I had leftovers from last night for lunch. I don’t know what sauce CL Luffy use in Gyu Don, maybe just teriyaki or a variant, but I find it delicious. I still have enough of that dish to have if for lunch tomorrow as well.

After lunch, three of the four helpers showed up. The guy who had been so enthusiastic was a no show. I will give him another opportunity next week but this is not looking good.

The women did a great job on the back stairs. They are almost done. They want to do another coat on the steps and maybe another coat on the railings. All of this means that I will have to get off my mental butt and start cataloguing the books that will live again on those shelves. And because I am slightly insane (in a good way), all I can think about is getting a few of the containers of crap from the tool bench and environs and bring them up into the living room and start putting like with like. I am so weird.

The ladies left at around 4:30. I had lost and then found my new fancy bookmark. And that meant (while it was lost) that I ought to keep reading.

Tonight I think I will do my accounts. After I do my evening Duolingo.

I am making pizza and wings again tonight. The pizza didn’t get a crispy crust last time. Maybe what I will try is after a good bit of cooking time, taking the pizza out and move it around the pizza stone a bit and see if that helps the crust to crisp up. The debate, as usual, is whether or not a salad will be part of the dinner equation.

Augustus for President: Well, that’s incredibly frustrating. It seems that some people’s answers/responses aren’t being captured by google Forms for whatever reason. PvK said she had answered some of the surveys. And one of my helpers said she had as well. But neither person’s answers showed up. So I wonder how many people have filled out the surveys and not had their responses show up. It is very strange. Grrr. So, I will either have to go premium with some survey app, which is expensive in every app I have seen. Or use Survey Planet maybe which looks mostly free. I don’t know. It is irking me though. In other words, don’t try to fill out surveys until I get this figured out.

My friend EL helped me get Powerpoint and Filemaker. I am excited to work/play with both!

Well, I was having problems with my html table that I am working on for the campaign website. And my friendly tech support guy there fixed the issue quickly. Some script problem on his end. Woo hoo!