Today started with me getting a call to help SM out with a project. It sounded pretty easy. Though I knew in my heart that there would be steps beyond the ones I anticipated. It took me a bit to put the information she had found on the internet into a spreadsheet and give it to her. I gave her printed copies and electronic copies. Not my finest work, but it sufficed. First problem, she wanted to edit the work herself. Her computer skills are negligible, so I had to walk her through how to edit a spreadsheet. On Google Sheets. An app that I am not that familiar with. But we got there. Later she called me and wanted to send the list to other people. That was an ordeal, because I am not a windows user so I have to figure everything out without being in front of her computer. But we persevered and managed to get the email out. Yay! The time spent was not a great deal, the work started around 10 and ended around 4:30.
Around that, I did some of my own work. First up, going through Alice and seeing what tweaks I wanted to make. That took a little bit. I ended up with a couple of pages of notes. Sounds like a lot, but I was writing with what felt like a highlighter. So probably 20 items I could look at and see if I wanted to fix them.
Next up, some work for the Campaign.
After that, I kept flopping back and forth between Alice and the campaign work and checking out used Teslas. I found a great deal on one, but until I have the amount of the total loss payment, I don’t really know for sure what I am working with in terms of funds. My dream would be to get a 2025 that has low miles and is sold under market value. That would be nifty. I will start to look on Monday when I ought to get the figure.
Augustus for President: Today I mostly worked on the 50+1 Capitals Tour. I did some work on the spreadsheet, formatting wise and data wise. The data change was moving the starting date in Washington DC to March 15. Ides of March. And a Sunday. And since I chose to start on a Sunday, I had to make changes to the Month planner doc that I had downloaded before. First off, it was in powerpoint, which is not where I wanted it to be. I tried pasting it into Keynote and it didn’t paste well. It pasted as one big lump. I wonder if it came across grouped. Hmm. Anyway, I decided to basically recreate the doc in Keynote. I think it turned out ok. It needs more tweaking, but was adequate to my needs. I will look everything over tomorrow and then send a copy to the guy who said he might be willing to help me with travel arrangements. So excited!
I also took a minute to look at the Capital Steps speech. It is not in good shape. But I sent it to KSR anyway at his request. I will work on that and the press release during this week.
Still Life 