My Current Obsession

For some reason, I think obsessions are better than addictions. I am currently obsessed with pepitas! EC gave me a few to nibble one day when we stopped at a farm store/stand and I liked them so much, I hunted them down at the grocery store. I think I have mentioned them a few times. Luckily, someone else at Wegman’s likes them so they are usually in stock. I hadn’t tried the maple ones before tonight and they were also very very very good. I will do my best not to eat all of them in one night.

Obsessed

I like to think I am a smart person. One thing that totally eludes me, though, is electricity. I mean, I have a vague idea of what it is. But I have no idea what any of the myriad measurements mean. I picked up a little from working in the theatre with lighting and sound equipment. And a little more from playing with computers and such. But…I need a course, I think. Maybe that would help. Why? Because I want to understand electricity better for solar power for the house, even in a small way. And because I drive an electric car. Knowledge is electricity. Er, power.

It was a two dash day. The first dash was pretty good – not a lot of driving and very good money. Woo hoo. I had tried to do the dash “by time” instead of “by offer” but I was told that it wasn’t available. Maybe Door Dash only allows so many people to dash using “by time.” On the second dash I tried again to dash “by time” and was allowed. I am not sure I liked it. I only had five dashes, but I averaged $11 a dash. But those dashes took me almost three hours. And a lot of miles. I will go back to by offer tomorrow morning I think.

At the lunch break, I got a bunch accomplished. Nothing too earth shattering but lots more little steps. Always a good thing. I think I will try, a third time, to take the Driver Education class. Sigh. Really not looking forward to it. The last one was throbbingly boring.

I still have some pot stickers in the freezer in the top of the refrigerator. I might get something else frozen, like egg rolls or something, and then I can make an easy Chinese dinner. Put some rice in the rice cooker, heat the other things up and voila! I decided that a jar of pasta sauce was past its prime. Admittedly it was a huge jar of sauce. I might try vodka sauce again if I can find a smaller container of it.

That being said, I thawed some meatballs from the deep freeze, so I will have some alfredo sauce on some pasta with a couple of meatballs and some garlic cheese toast for dinner tonight. I was toying with the idea of frozen veggies too, but I think I will stick with a salad.

Augustus for President: I ran into a fellow dasher who I haven’t seen for a while. Turns out he gave up dashing and is doing Uber passenger driving instead. I keep toying with the idea, but I just don’t really want to have to keep my car that clean. Anyway…I gave him a sticker and used my NFC card to get him to the website. He suggested we have coffee sometime. He is really smart and it would be good to have him to chat with.

When I have my first event, which hopefully will be this month, I will post it on the website and on Facebook and anywhere else I can think of. Press release? Maybe.

Another dasher got an earful from me. He thought the NFC card was cool. And I gave him a couple of stickers. We shall see if anything comes of that.

And at Wegman’s, I gave out a few more stickers.

I thought people liked to take surveys. Why are so few people taking mine? And for those of you who have, yay and thank you!! 💕 For those of you that haven’t, what is stopping you? I really could use the feedback. And each survey takes a very brief amount of time. And taking all the surveys, well, that might take you ten or even fifteen minutes!! Eeek!

Survey Time!

Stickers for Everyone!

Ok, the stickers aren’t for everyone. They are only for people who want them. They came in the mail today, a day before Vista Print promised them. Woo hoo! Since I had some down time, I cut them all off their rolls. Most are in a plastic bag. Some are in my name badge so I can grab them easily. I gave out a few today. Not many. If anyone wants some – either for themselves or to give to others (though they haven’t probably met me…), please let me know. They are smaller than I thought they would be. A little larger than the round “I Voted” stickers one can get when one votes.

Stickers galore

I got up this morning in time to get out and do some dashing before running EC and JC around. But I didn’t dash. I decided to just stay in bed and do Duolingo. My quest partner had done a large amount of the work and I wanted to finish it. And get farther up the Diamond Tournament ladder. I think I did a lot of lessons today. At least ten. Maybe more. I did at least one lesson in each of the 7 things that I am currently practicing in Duolingo. Four languages. Music, Chess and Math. Go me.

I went and picked up JC and EC and we headed to the first appointment. It was a follow up visit with their PA. All things looked good. Unfortunately, no one brought up driving. JC forbid us from asking. And PA Fix didn’t say anything about it. Personally, I think JC shouldn’t be driving, and he knows I think that. His eyes are bad. His reaction time is slow. He has some memory issues. And he gets tired. Not a great set of things to have when maneuvering a 2 ton vehicle around. Whatever. I have offered my services if he decides that driving is too much for him. Though honestly, he isn’t the best judge of that. As many people in the same situation feel, he wants to maintain his independence as defined by driving his own vehicle. Sigh. I just hope that everything goes ok.

Next stop the dentist’s office for EC. JC and I chatted a good bit. Mostly about education. I think a good use of taxpayer dollars and education dollars in general is to hire as many retired people as possible – for as little as possible for their help in classrooms from k-8. After that, high school should have much shorter classes. And lots of big group projects. I mean big – like 40 people big. Projects that can also be broken down into smaller groups. Like building floats. Or creating a play or musical or movie or TV show. Anything that takes a lot of people to do. Get them and their hormones focused on group activities.

We had made a quick stop at Grounded for a drink before heading to the dentist’s office. Later we had lunch at Sweet Acres Creamery. I was a bit shocked that they had no vegetarian options. Well, mac and cheese. And a salad. But out of 30 some menu items, that was it. Both JC and EC chose to have a breakfast sandwich, cheese and egg, without the bacon that normally goes in it. They seemed to enjoy their food. We also shared a plate of french fries. The fries were good, but it seemed like we got the bottom of a bag of fries – lots of teeny bits of fries. Not optimal. All in all, the meal was ok, not great. My cheese steak sandwich was decent but certainly not excellent.

After all of that, we headed to the ATT store so that we could try and move forward with JC’s new to him iPhone. Turns out that there is no standard methodology to creating passwords at the ATT store for people when they need a password and can’t come up with one. That’s the first thing I would do if I were the manager there. Eventually the guy got the ability to change passwords on the phone and we did. Yay. Next step, getting the phone more accessible for JC. And, hopefully, set up the GD home pod. Grrr.

I headed off and made a quick stop at home to drop off food. Then I dashed for a couple of hours. Not an excellent dash, but also not terrible. How about, better than nothing.

Home now, and I am ready for nap. But instead I will eat something and then probably go to sleep really early tonight. Tomorrow I think I will have a two dash day! Woo hoo!

Augustus for President: I got the stickers and cut them up. And handed out a few.

I also realized that I will, at some point, need to read some good point/counterpoint arguments for a lot of issues – abortion, gun rights and Israel are the big three I think. Any others that I am missing? Health care. Education. I think I can really only have ten issues total that I can “focus” on during the campaign. Thoughts are welcome. And there are two more surveys up if anyone would be so kind as to do them. Thank you to those of you who have done any of the surveys!

Surveys!