Not On My Lawn!

Not on my lawn!

I drive past this scene of mayhem at least once a day. I just thought it was funny.

Recently I bought myself a pair of Airpods from Apple. I don’t listen to a lot of music through them. I mostly use them when I am navigating either in the car or on the street. And when I make phone calls in the car. Today, though, was the first time that I used them both at the same time. Usually I only use one ear at a time. But this time, I decided to put them both in. And boy was I surprised! The sound cancelling feature works really well!! I had the car windows open (it was a beautiful day today) and the wind noise was pretty ferocious. But with the Airpods in, I could barely hear it. So cool!

Also, when I have the earbuds in, I can hear the chimes for a dash despite it being plugged into this neolithic automobile. That’s a good thing. I had been worried about battery life for my phone. But not any longer in this car. Which I can, hopefully, exchange for my car tomorrow. So excited!

Last thing about the Airpods. They are already connected to the Apple TV so I can use them instead of wired head phones next time I have guests in the room at the head of the stairs. Or guests anywhere, I guess. I do like Apple’s eco system.

Today was a two dash day. The first dash was outstanding. Not the most I have made in 3.5 hours, but close to. And the second shift was the opposite. 3.5 hours, but despite having 11 rides, I sat around for almost two hours altogether. Grrr. And my fellow dasher was lied to. It wasn’t everyone who got knocked down to Silver, it was just her for not completing enough dashes. Or something like that. Who knows. I don’t understand the whole thing…

I am soooo looking forward to getting my car back tomorrow. I will be irked if it doesn’t happen. I will call them during my shift tomorrow. Or at least before I hit the road to get up there by 2:00 pm. If I can get out of there in less than an hour, I might do an evening dashing shift. If I can’t, oh well. Life is that way sometimes. The rental does have an owie that I don’t think was there when I got the car. I hope that won’t be too expensive. Sigh. Money money money. Honey.

I watched a lot of different shows the other day. Tracker is back with new episodes. And a weird version of Matlock, starring Kathy Bates just started. I also watch some weird show about kids at the Outer Banks in NC. Not sure I will go back to that one. And one day, after finishing all 60+ episodes of the new McGyver, I will eventually go back to Vikings and the sequel show. And I am watching The British Baking Show (often copied, never equalled, imho) as episodes come out. How did we live in a world where TV was almost always only available serialized? Eeek!

Tonight is the Q3 earnings call from Tesla. And being a major (hahahaha) stock holder, I like to listen to them (the earnings calls). Which I will do after posting this.

Beep Beep

This truck is large, but not that large!!

Seen at Wegman’s the other day. People are not very bright if they try to sit in this vehicle. Then again…

The more I think about it, much as I admire Optimus and would like one, one day, I would really like to have a Robovan. Maybe I will keep my current Tesla (which I would love more if it were a long distance one) until Robovan is available. If a list comes out, I will add my name to it no matter the cost. The possibilities with that vehicle are pretty vast!

Last night, I was hallucinating a bit. I thought I heard my guests in their room. But no, they weren’t there. I also thought I heard a cat mewing. Craziness. I don’t have a cat. There hasn’t been a cat in this family since Tiger died back in the 1980s. There couldn’t be a cat meowing anywhere. But wait! I recalled that I had left the front door open. And the door to the side porch. Having earlier remembered about the side porch door being opened, I closed it at some point. And then i heard the caterwauling.

Sure enough, some cat had decided to investigate the side porch and I had trapped it in there. Hopefully it wasn’t there long enough to pee or poop on anything. When I opened the door from the house to the porch, the cat zipped inside. Bad kitty. Get out, I said. It headed for the kitchen, but I shooed it out and closed that door. I had already opened the door to the outside from the porch and was ushering th kitty that way. It wasn’t happy about that. Hissing and spitting ensued. But the silly thing didn’t want to go out that door, it wanted to go out the same door it had come in. So when I opened that door, bye bye kitty! Phew! I did not want to adopt a cat!!

It has been a quiet day. After using the copy function of my printer last night to do a little task for S, I took those documents to her in the morning. And that was about it for me outside, despite the weather being sunny and in the 70s! Inside, I didn’t do much. I ate some lunch, watched a bunch of YouTube videos (not the one I had told myself to watch) and generally was lumpy.

Eventually I did a few things around the house: stripped the guest bed, stripped and made my bed (with flannel sheets – I am sure after this brief warm spell, cold weather will return with a vengeance), started another load of laundry, put together the doors I had taken apart, watched the video on transcriptions (If I can do that instead of dashing, I would be thrilled) and even started the paperwork to do that gig. And Duolingo.

I am taking a break from Vikings. I have watched a couple of movies – nothing too exciting – and started a couple of series that seem ok. I think I will watch the MacGyver reboot for awhile and see how that goes. And maybe some little Anna Kendrick movie that she is promoting on Instagram.

Speaking of which, I am not missing X at all. The next step will be to delete the app. I am so angered by the change in blocking behavior I could spit.

Tonight, more Chinese food and more crab rangoons. I want to use up the stuffing I had left over from Friday. Not exciting but life is that way sometimes. I have a lot of containers of leftovers in the fridge and want to pare that number down! Wish me luck!