Not a bad day at all

I did not sleep well last night. For a variety of reasons. One of which was existential angst. But around 6 this morning, I had a potential eureka moment and that allowed me to fall asleep. For an hour and a half. Woo hoo! I am still a bit fuzzy.

So, I have been dragging all day. But, I have been trying to not be recumbent. I am doing a lot of sitting up in a chair. And I am also trying to move around more. The little bit of yoga I have been doing in the morning is not making my body as happy as it could be.

While I have been dragging around, I have been working on a few projects simultaneously. One for my campaign, which I will write more about below. And the other are just things around the house. I finally did a little bit of cleanup in the living room. And I have done some dishes. And I did a bunch of scanning. And a load of laundry. Oh, and I changed the sheets on my bed!

Laughing Buddha

I did not avail myself of two free tickets to see Spamalot up in Rochester this evening. I’m just feeling too fuzzy and the performance was scheduled to start relatively early, and I just couldn’t get my mind around going. I am a bad human.

And that’s all I’ve done. I haven’t done much thinking. Mostly just puttering a getting little things accomplished.

It looks like I will be heading to JC and EC’s on Tuesday, not Monday. So Monday might be wide open! It’s a bank holiday though…

Augustus for President: I have been doing some work on the 50+1 Capitals Tour. Mostly adding items of infromation to the pages of each state capital: when the state was settled or founded – whichever is earlier, population (as of 2024), GDP (Gross domestic Profit), Motto and Bird. I’ve gotten through the first few days at least. Maybe I will do more in the third part of the evening.

Ok, I am thinking I will get three swag type items – coasters, pens and stickers – for the 50+1 Capitals Tour. Maybe 200 of each and see what happens. I need to order them soon so that I will get them by the time I leave Geneva. My departure date is now February 9. RP has offered to let me stay inhishouse for the time I will be in DC. That is great! And very generous of him. He will be heading out on the 10th, but I can still stay until I leave on the 12th. So excited. That gives me more time in Washington, so I might go to a museum or something while I am there. It will also give me a way to ease into the trip instead of going full bore right from the start.

Every Drachma Helps – $10 will buy me a big mac meal on the road – or more likely a Bojangles meal. One of the things I miss most from North Carolina is Bojangles.

Another of those darn Productive Days

Me at maybe 5 years old? Kindergarten maybe?

In sorting through a box of assorted crap, mostly computer and phone related cables, I came upon a lanyard that I got back in 2018. A Kennedy Space Center lanyard. I thought maybe it would be good to use with my Presidential (in content, maybe not in style and class) name badge. Sadly, the lanyard was too long in its current configuration. If I decide to use it, it will have to be shortened. The lanyard put the badge at below my waist level…

In this same sorting, I came across a few CDs. I am going to try and find my external CD/DVD drive for my laptop and see if I can upload these CDs to my computer. If I haven’t already. They could be ones that I already added to my personal library. They aren’t. I checked. And I found the drive but the special cables for it have gone missing. Sigh.

Lots of little things to do today. A couple of car things – WD-40 the windshield wipers and put rain-ex on all of the external cameras. (see below) I want to unbox my tape measure. (see below) Clean out my email. (Done) Maybe watch some of a documentary about the Kogie people in the Andes mountains. (Probably not) And maybe start work on a graphic for the trip. (Hopefully later tonight) We shall see how far along we get on this todo list on this “doing” Sunday.

I tried to turn my new tape measure on and it wasn’t working. I unscrewed the battery cover and discovered the reason. No batteries. And it didn’t ship with batteries. What the heck is that about? How expensive would it to be to add a couple of AAA batteries? Sigh. Anyway, it is working now and is totally cool. Turn it on, zap the laser and it tells you how far away something is. Wow. And I just changed the Units to Feet. I wonder if there is a Feet and Inches option instead of the Feet and decimal parts of a foot. How many inches is .34 feet? (about four inches I guess…)

It is too cold and wet to do the WD-40 windshield wipers thing today. And it doesn’t look like the weather is going to be any better in the next 10 days. So, maybe I will take the WD-40 with me on the road and when the weather gets warm enough, do the WD-40 thing on the wiper blades then. This is something that I saw on YouTube that looked like it made sense.

Well, triple poo. My 2022 Tesla Model 3 must be from the beginning of the year because it has the old computer chip and the old AI/FSD computer. Why is that triple poo? It just is. Ok, it’s because a) I can’t run FSD, b) I can’t run Grok and c) it just sucks for those two reasons. So maybe it is only a double 💩

Such good stuff got done today overall. Yes, it is cold and wet and unpleasant outdoors. But inside the house it isn’t so bad. I have done most of my todo list. Then I got a message from the system saying that Apple wanted to update my laptop’s system. But there wasn’t enough room. I decided to see what all was taking up so much space. One thing was a movie that I downloaded a long time ago from when I was working at the Smith. Trashed it. Then there were some other movies from other times of my life. I am saving those to my super large thumb drive. One of them, it turns out, has the Alice in Wonderland scene/ movie on it. Actually there might be three copies of it on my computer at this point. The name of the file was deceptive which is why I couldn’t find it. The file was called DVD Video Recorder. What it is is a digitized version of a VCR tape that was sent to me when I asked to have a bunch of old home movies (and Alice) transferred from 8mm and super 8mm film to video tape. Because at the time, there wasn’t much in the way of large inexpensive storage for computers besides video tape – back in the early 2000s I think. Maybe as late as 2012. Maybe. Anyway, the good news is that I found the Alice thing and will be posting it on YouTube at some point in the not too distant future. How exciting is that? Let me answer that question for you. Very exciting!!

Oops, I started copying more large files onto my huge thumb drive (two terrabytes) and it is taking forever. Luckily I can do other things while they are copying in the background.

It is getting onto the third part of the day. I am about to do my Duolingo. And then I will make some dinner. More chicken and asparagus I think. Debating the salad and french fries…

Augustus for President: After dinner, I think I will start working on the multimedia part of my 50+1 Capital Tour (which is going to cost me around $12k if I had to guess – maybe more). I plan to post on YouTube, Facebook, and Threads. I don’t know about TikTok. Or X (🤮). Oh, and Blue Sky. Anyplace else that people who vote might see the posts?

I feel like I am making some good progress on both the campaign and in preparations for the trip. I am still sad that I can’t find anyone crazy enough, er, smart enough to come on this once (well, twice for me so far) tour of all 50 states. Frustrating.

Shameless appeal for money: Bernie raised about $200m in each of his two campaigns. I don’t think he had super pacs or anything like that besides the amount he and his campaign raised. That seems like a good target for the end of next week. Hahaha, just joking. I have much smaller goals. I would like to raise $5000 as quickly as I can. If I can raise that much, I think I can raise whatever else is needed, eventually.

Yes, I would love your support. Those who have supported me thus far (both of you), thank you. Those who haven’t – each person can give up to $3300 per candidate per election. Just saying…(link is the name of this section above)

Yay Productive Lazy Days

Decent day, all things considered. Yay. I hope you all had good days too.

Mine started about the same time my days have been starting recently, around 8 am. When my boarder heads off to work. She is like my alarm clock. I did my morning Duolingo and then puttered around the internet. Too much of that, sadly. But these are the times in which we live, so…

Around 10 I got a few reminders and took care of them. Made a couple calls, sent a couple text messages. Did a few things on the computer. That sort of thing. Later, I got out of bed and did my morning ablutions, including a teeny bit of yoga. And started the upstairs Roomba. Which entailed closing all the rest of the doors on the floor so that the Roomba would focus on the hallway. It did a decent job. Though it got some hair twined around one of its paws that I haven’t figure out how to dehair yet. YouTube to the rescue. I will do that the next time I clean the upstairs roomba. Which at the rate I am going will be sometime in 2027. Sigh.

Lunch was a bunch of this and a little of that. Mainly some guacamole and some hummus, plus some watermelon (I know, it isn’t in season, but Wegman’s sells outrageously expensive little containers of it and its one of the only fruits I eat without much foot dragging), and some olives.

After lunch, I started doing more picture scans. I did 40+. And trimmed them. And will name and save them tonight. I might try another method to save them this evening. Nah, probably won’t. I’ll stick with the way I have developed. To get me through the scanning, which took a while, I listened to some of my book. There were some pictures of mom. Some pictures of other family members. Even two pictures of Orville Leonard from the Civil War! I might use one of those for my image tomorrow, if I remember.

I will admit that here and there a catnap or two may have occurred.

When I got a hi tech tape measure for PM for Christmas, I also got one for myself. I haven’t unboxed it yet, but would like to do so. Maybe on Sunday.

Oh, I also did and put away the dishes. See, productive!

Tonight, I might start on the books in the red room. There are two shelves in there and I don’t think any of those books have been catalogued. I will be able to tell if they have because they will have my library embosses in them. And they will be in the database.

It is Friday night. Normally I treat myself to some sort of pizza and wings meal. But since I have most of a chicken left, which I didn’t touch yesterday, I think it would be better if I had that. With the rest of the broccoli. And maybe some French Fries. Not curly fries tonight. I am debating a small salad.

Fairy Blog Mother strikes again!

Who has the best Fairy Blog Mother? I got a text from PvK asking if I was still looking for a round Brita pitcher. I loathe my rectangular one, so I leapt to respond with a resounding yes! She left it on the front porch for me. And it even came with a filter! Yippee!! Bye bye rectangular Brita pitcher from Hades!

Looks like tomorrow is going to be a big driving day. I am picking LD and MD up from the Syracuse airport around noon. And then picking SM up from the Rochester Airport around 4 pm. So exciting. At least I will get to listen to my book. And have good conversations on the way home.

And tomorrow night, if the stars align, EC and JC and I will be going out to eat dinner. That will be nice. They are so good to me!

Ok, time to Duolingo.

Augustus for President: I saw a book that looked interesting on the internet. It came in two versions, a paperback for $13 or a Kindle version for $6. I downloaded the Kindle app to my iPad and bought the kindle version of the book. It is about how Independents have a hard time winning elections and some possible strategies to overcome the challenges. I’ve started the book, but haven’t gotten very far in it yet.

My next gadget arrived – a remote control for my phone. Now I can start and stop video on the iPhone from afar. Or take pictures. I am mostly interested in the video option. On Sunday, if the weather isn’t too terrible, I might try a test or three of videoing myself like I would for a capital visit.

Sniff, sniff. No more donations. Yet. Am I surprised? Not at all. Sad though. Sniff. My fundraising goal for the year is $5,000. At least that is my initial goal. If I can’t even raise that…well, that wouldn’t be a good sign.

Is 2026 Over yet?

Last night, SM gave me two Christmas gifts. I didn’t give her anything and I feel a bit bad about that. Not hugely, because she has everything she wants I believe. Anyway, she gave me a cool mug that has a QR code on it that takes me to a daily trivia question (and answer). And she gave me a really cool immersion blender set! I have always wanted one. I mentioned once or twice that I was envious of hers.

I’m the luckiest

It has been another quiet day here at the chalet. Surprisingly I did accomplish a few things.

I started emptying out the trunk of the car after the trip to Maine. I think I have almost all of the crap out. And I need to get the charging cable out of the back seat of the car. I think the Frunk doesn’t have anything important in it just now. I’ll have to remember to check.

Next, I did some neatening in my bedroom. This is a monthly or even every other month sort of task. The floor is not cord free, otherwise I would run a Roomba in here. I might do it anyway and see what happens. There is a lot of dust in here.

My receipts from last year all went into a plastic bag. I don’t think I need any of those receipts for my taxes. I might need one or two if I didn’t manage to sort them out and put them in the campaign finance drawer. And I started collecting receipts for the new year.

Why do I have a receipt already? I went to the grocery store. I wanted to get my self generated traditional NYE celebration supplies: Sparkling something – sometimes I get sparkling wines, this time I got some sparkling apple juice, Borsin, Smoked Mussels, Fancy Crackers. I also ended up getting some eggs since mine somehow magically got used up while I was gone (I think I still had at least 6 in there – whatever I don’t really care – it is just sad that my boarder said nothing about using them or replacing them). And I bought some curly fries – one can never have enough curly fries – and a frozen pizza that I might well have for dinner tomorrow night.

Tonight, I am making a light pasta and meatballs dinner so I have room to have a NYE type snacking session later tonight. So excited!

Augustus for President: After I get an accounting system – hopefully one that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg – I will go back and enter the expenses into expense sheets and see if I can reconcile the bank balance with all the stuff I spent money on and some of which I reimbursed myself for. I also plan to fill out a hard copy of the FEC forms tomorrow and then see how one enters them online. If I don’t get any farther than actually registering as a candidate for the 2028 elections, I will have gotten farther than most people in an attempt to become President of the US.

I looked on the internet to see how Presidents ranked in terms of IQ. According to the sites I looked at, all the presidents have had decent brains. Even Drumpf. Which was an abosolute shocker to me. One site rated him at 124 to 145. Hahahahaha. I doubt he ever had an IQ higher than 95. If that one is so inflated, I take all the others with a grain of salt as well. I mean, GW Bush had a 135 IQ? Hahaha. No. And Ronald Reagan 130? Again, nope. I don’t believe any of those three’s estimated scores. I may not be the smartest person on the planet (by a long way) but I know that I am smarter than Drumpf, GW Bush and Reagan. (Not combined, but…)

Sweet! Dude!!

It feels like home here at my sister’s house. I was just lying on the bed in the guest room and I went to turn on the bedside light. And I reached for the extension switch that I have in my bedroom at home. It wasn’t there, obviously.

I got up this morning and did a lot of nothing. Well, I had some thoughts. And I did some little chores. So, I guess I did something. And I convinced J to let me make dinner tonight. Which prompted a trip into Belfast.

I had three missions in Belfast. Pizza for lunch. Foiled. The pizza place that I like – one of my favorite pizzas currently, is closed on Mondays. Maybe Tuesday too, I don’t recall. Anyway, no pizza for you. I also wanted to see if the odlest shoe store in America, where I bought my current favorite pair of shoes – Olukai, had some Olukai short boots. They didn’t. They had lots of other brands. But no Olukia. Foiled. And lastly, I wanted to go to the grocery store and get the ingredients for the dinner tonight.

On the way, I stopped at a Chinese restaurant and picked up a quart of vegetable fried rice. I had been toying with the idea of rice with dinner and decided that instead of trying to make some (J does not have a rice cooker I don’t believe) and then adulterating it, I would just buy some. The counter person ws very nice and spoke Chinese with me.

At the grocery store, I found everything that I needed. I also found things I didn’t need and bought those too. It’s only money. At least I got all the ingredients for making Sweet and Sour pork. I hope it turns out ok. The meals I prepare here are hit or miss. And I haven’t made this dish before. Well, not recently. And not with this particular recipe. We shall see. I am going to do my best to follow the recipe as closely as I can.

Dinner

The meal turned out pretty well. We all had seconds even! I think the sweet (dude) and sour pork could have used a bit more garlic, but since I was using garlic in a tube, I couldn’t really measure the equivalent amount to what the recipe asked for. I am, though, a garlic fan in most cases, so needing more garlic could have just been a me thing. I also think a smidgeon more ginger would have been ok. All in all, I will call this meal a success. Woo hoo!

Augustus for President: I think one reason the whole country is no longer as unified as it seemed in the past is because there is no unifying media. And that is part of the reason that MAGA is unified – they have Fox news. There really is no equivalent on the left. And there certainly isn’t one in the center. Back in the old days, the lack of unifying media was unifying. Newspapers were ubiquitous. Then radio came along and there weren’t a lot of radio stations and everyone listened to the same stuff. And the same with television, up until the proliferation of stations that happened in the late 70s. Until then, there were basically three TV stations and people all watched the same news, the same entertainment, the same sports. Now, not so much. Can we make a US media outlet? Like Fox News, but unbiased? Playing 24 hours a day. With national news mostly. And international news. Maybe each state has a ten minute round-up of their local news. I think this is a brilliant idea. Then again, I think all of my ideas are brilliant. Sigh.

I love talking about the campaign. And the issues. Just saying…

I’m Mentally Bendy! (Maybe)

Some people start with a title. Some people add the title at the end. Neither is wrong. And I do both. I’m flexible.

I appreciate flexibility. In mind and body. I was saddened today when a person I thought was interesting on Threads said that only assholes drive Teslas. I, of course, disagree. Especially since I drive a Tesla. My second. And definitely not my last. I can sort of understand that some people think that because Elon is an asshole that anyone who drives a Tesla is an asshole too. And that makes me sad. Tesla has more than 100k employees. And they make the best, most efficient, most technologically advanced and yes, the safest cars and trucks out there. Not to mention all of their solar and battery tech that is helping the world transition to less dependence on fossil fuels. Oh, and autonomy, which will eventually make roads a lot safer. And if Optimus comes about, who knows how the world will change. The jury is still out on that one. Optimus could be a great thing. Or it could be the final nail in the coffin of late stage capitalism. I mean, if capitalists don’t need human workers anymore, how will the people eat? Anyway, yes, Elon is a major dick. And he has helped to bring the nation to a state of chaos and maybe even helped bring about the end of democracy as we know it in this country. That doesn’t stop Tesla itself from being a good company. And doesn’t make anyone who drives a Tesla an asshole. In my humblest of opinions.

Today has been a pleasant day. I wish it had been a Friday, but it just wasn’t. Oh well. Anyway, I got up, did nothing much till about 10. Then I cranked through my to do list. Started packing, started collecting things that I wanted to take with me to my sister’s house. Started figuring out what I want to do when around the holidays. And all of that before noon. Lunch was devoted to eating up what I could get rid of from the fridge – things that might be worse off after another week sitting around in there. And I took a shower.

Since I was so ahead of schedule, I opted to take a book back to the library and then head to JC’s to see if I could help him with some phone questions and issues. He is actually managing quite well with it, despite it being new tech for him. I made a few icons larger – which I might do on my phone as well. I just realized that he somehow regressed systems. I don’t know how that happened. I am not going to worry about it. We are going to set up a date with the Apple Genius bar in Victor after I get back from Maine and see if we can get a few other issues fixed. Like why Siri keeps turning itself off, despite being turned on and set up numerous times. Irksome. And must be doubly irksome to JC.

We also had a good talk about the trip that EC and I took to KC to check out possible places for them to roost. I think he is secretly pleased that something is settled in that realm. I did point out that there are a few more steps to go before the place is theirs. Which gives them more time to get their act together and take it on the road.

Yummy but not a sundae! (IMHO)

Back at home, I continued packing and getting the car ready for the trip. It had another bath. And I already put some things in the car, like charging stuff, that I didn’t want to forget. Most everything else is piled near doorways. I also have early morning alerts on my phone so that I hopefully won’t forget anything too important on this trip. But as I remind others, I will still be in a civilized place and anything that I might forget can probably be found at my destination. Woo hoo.

Soon, it will be Duolingo and dinner time. So excited! I am peckish.

Augustus for President: I think I will hire a virtual assistant starting January 5 2026. Their focus will be on the preparations for the trip to the fifty state capitals (and DC). I still have some more work that I need to do on that. Like checking the dates and the routes. I need to make a list of all the things that I would like the VA to do for the trip. Like help create a press release and distribute them. Come up with a list of all the governors and their contact infomration. Maybe come up with mailing address for political organizations and send press releases and questionnaires to them. And then during the trip, make all the travel arrangements so I don’t have to think about them.

I did realize that I know more people in more places that I had originally thought I did. So maybe 10 people who live within striking distance of capitals. If all those people let me stay with them, that could save me at least $1,000 which would be great! I might know more, but those are the ones that have come to mind so far.

I can get J&G and J&P to fill out my forms maybe over the holidays maybe.

Would you like to see more of the Spectrum?

I wonder what the world would look like if people could see other wavelengths. I mean, there are so many signals winging through the air at all times. It would be cool and bizarre!

Random logo I saw today

Anyway, it was a one dash day. It could have been a two dash day, but I did well enough during my first dash that I decided a second dash, though probably profitable, was not how I wanted to spend my time. So, I stayed home. The weather was also a bit of a deterrent since it was raining intermittently. And got colder. Brrr.

After my dash, I ate some lunch and started trying to work through all of the reminders I had lying around. Since I might (probably will) be out galavanting tomorrow most of the day (drives for people in the morning and then to Syracuse to throw axes with a friend) I need to get as much done today as I can. And I did. I feel like I accomplished a good amount of stuff. Not only for my daily life, but also for Presidential stuff.

So, what did I do? I moved forward with my banking surrounding my car. The bank said, somewhere, that I could get a discount if I opened a bank account with them and had my payments taking directly and automatically from that account. I think that they said it would be .25% reduction, which could add up to a whopping $31 over the course of the loan. Probably not worth it in that case. I might call them and ask. And I am still considering asking the Finger Lakes Credit Union if they can give me a better deal on the car loan. We shall see. That whole process took longer than I thought it would.

I also helped SM with some invites to a political event. As is often the case, I needed to hurry up and do it because her deadline was short. Poo. I hate doing things under pressure for other people. I don’t mind putting myself under that sort of pressure, but I don’t enjoy it when it is for someone else. I got the work done before I kick into evening mode, though it wasn’t my best effort.

My reminder list had a few items on it about moving things around, which were accomplished. I also had calling another handyman about possibly doing the gravel in my front yard since JM has not responded to any of my messages. I hope that he and his are ok. It is frustrating though, the lack of communication. I left a message for the new guy but haven’t heard back.

I used one of my many printers (I now have three plugged in) to scan some docs and got those documents sent off. And I wrote a few emails.

EC gave me two cameras as she tries to cull her belongings a bit. One didn’t function even after I put new batteries in it. It was a digital camera, so I checked out the card and didn’t see any pictures on there that I think anyone would want. The other uses a special battery that I don’t have (Photo 123 from Energizer) so I will have to figure out what to do about that. Maybe there is a camera place around here that has a single battery I can try. There is a roll of film in there, so I want to get the camera working, take pictures until the roll is finished and then print the pictures to see what is on there! She also gave me a bunch of other stuff that is going straight to the attic for now. I will deal with that later. Hahahaha sure I will…I will probably be leaving it for whoever I leave the house to.

I’m sure there was more stuff.

Well, yes, there was. Augustus for President stuff which I will write about below. And hey, please, please please take the time to take the surveys. The more responses, the happier!

Augustus for President: At least the people at the Campaign website respond quickly. I asked them if I could use WordPress to edit the site – they eventually said no. They also did not tell me how to make buttons. And they pointed at their teeny editor as a wysiwyg web page editor. Sigh. I still have lots more to do there – like enabling donations/contributions. They recommend Stripe. Not sure why, but I will look into it. I have used it in conjunction with some job or other I think. According to my passowrds list I have a password for the site.

I did lots of little things for the campaign today. One biggish thing I did was to start to figure out the order of Capitals that I want to visit when I take the first whirlwind Augustus for President tour of the US in February. I did what I thought might work. Or rather, I got about 2/3 of the way through. Then I had an Aha moment and asked an AI to give me the best list. It looked decent. I will probably tweak it further. But a whole country tour is definitely doable. Obviously, since I have done it before. I then searched to see if there were websites where I could plan trips with more than 50 stops and there are a slew of them. So I might try one of them at some point.

Presidential Survey – Who do you want to be President

Presidential Survey – If you could ask a candidate three questions

What is stopping you from taking the surveys? I am so confused. They are very short and very easy. Imho of course.

3 to 0

More Gandalf than Harry (the yeti)

Easy come easy go. On Thursday I wrote to my three most recent helpers and asked them if they wanted to work this weekend. One said they couldn’t. The other two said they could. I said how about 1:30 on Saturday. Both said they could. Then today, both of them wrote and said they couldn’t because they were out of town. What the hell? I guess I am putting my help wanted sign back up again. Not that I want to replace them, but they are being flaky. And I hate flaky. One more chance to the latter two, two more chances for the first. Three strikes and you’re out of my work force.

A little bit more about the State Fair. I thought the Ice Age (movies) exhibit in the Exposition hall, where I last was back in 2020 to get my Covid shot, was pretty lame. Not really sure what they were going for but it was just a bunch of animatronic animals and not much else in a big open space. Seemed sad.

I was surprised that cash was no longer king at the Fair. As I mentioned, I think, the parking was by credit card or by prepaid voucher (which was also probably paid for by credit card) only. The ticket kiosks for the rides in the midway pushed people towards credit cards. I only ordered one food item and they at least said that cash was preferred. Speaking of which, my bacon bomb sandwich was not what I was expecting at all. It was tasty, but I was expecting a few layers of thick cut bacon with more bacon crumbled on it etc. And by thick cut, I was thinking maybe 1/4 inch thick. Instead, I think I got a piece that was about an inch thick! I guess I will never really know for sure what the heck was going on with that sandwich.

I only rode one ride – the chair lift ride that moved from one side of the fair to the other. $7 which seemed a bit pricey – but everything is pricey it seems these days. Though I was tempted to ride a camel – a two hump (bactrian?) as I have only ridden the one humped variety before.

Not a fan of crowds. But overall, I am glad I went.

As for today, I did a lot of nothing. I finished a book. Yay. I put some straps on the quilt on my day bed, which I hope will keep it from slip sliding away and off the mattress, as it has in the past. I had a nice talk with my sister and brother-in-law, who I hope to visit in October. And I found out that one of my nephews and his family have moved to Halifax for a couple of years! No one tells me anything. And yes, I have not been good about keeping in touch with my sister-in-law. Sigh. I will try to do better. Maybe even go visit her at some point. Maybe on the way back from CT. The new long range car makes the idea of traveling much more palatable.

I have done my duolingo and will be eating the last of my duck and drunken noodles tonight. And maybe a side salad. I really need to cook the aspragus(tus) soon. But I really don’t feel like doing even that little cooking.

Augustus for President: I worked on the vinyl for the car. Sigh. I don’t know if it is any good. And I am worried that it will just peel off and I will have wasted $100. Mostly I’m worried that it isn’t any good. Maybe if I angled the text? I wish I were a graphic artist. This will be about 24 inches by 14 inches. And I plan to get two – one for each front door of the car. Or maybe I ought to have two different designs? This one and maybe one that is more funky? Or that has a slogan on it? I’m also thinking that I might like to go darker purple – not quite to black, but closer… My brain hurts.