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January 2023

Sunday January 15th 2023

By Food for thought

The Uber app says I completed 6 trips today, I earned a little over $130.00. Tonight is Sunday night it’s the last night of my workweek for Uber so that is awesome! Sunday nights are really the only nights where I try not to do anything but I make deal’s with my self a lot lol. This is how I usually justify things lol. I tell myself that LEARNING is not working so I can do that lmao. I just took my vitamins and now I am off to ride the Peloton.

Friday January 13th 2023

By Food for thought

The Uber driving app says that I took 4 trips in total today. I earned a little over $95.00. I remember in 2020 when I had the motor swap done. I picked the car up and the check engine light was on. So I scanned it, then cleared the codes and it went away. I got to Pinellas County and that light came on again. So I called this dude that worked on my car several times before he had experience working with these cars (hybrids) he told me to check the oil. It looked to be less than 50 percent. So I added 2 quarts of oil, I drove it to Clearwater and it looked even lower now, like less than 40 percent. I looked several times under the car and couldn’t find any leaks and I tried and could smell nothing burning. I was like nothing is making any sense here. I contacted Automedic and I spoke with the owner Omar. I told him there are lights on the dashboard and it’s blowing some code, I forget what the actual code it was blowing at that time. I was like “I gotta bring this back.” Omar says to me “I will give you a deal, I will charge you just $55.00 an hour because that motor is right!” I am like “I just got this out of your shop and there is something wrong with it and I do not know what it is.” That night I put that code into YouTube a lot. I learned that the cause of my problem was a sensor inside a part that was easily replaceable. So I checked the oil the next day when it was cold and it was way over full. So my mother donated a clear plastic container and I looked on the bottom of it and read that full it held like 3 gallons or so. So I did some math and put a mark on that container where 4 quarts was about. I jacked up the car and drained out 4 quarts of oil. I then went to Valvoline quick oil change and had them drain the oil from Ruby and add in EXACTLY 4.4 quarts. After that, I went to Advanced Auto Parts and purchased whatever that part was called it’s on the Maintenance log, and replaced in the parking lot with some ratchet wrenches I brought with me. I cleared those codes and the problem went away forever. I just remember that the Original one was right on top of the motor and I replaced it with ease, but that Mother Fucker was hot! Anyway I got to thinking about that. So this morning I checked the oil in Ruby before I started her today. The oil looked about 60 percent full, so I added 1 quart and checked it again, it was overfull. So in two weeks, I will only add 1/2 a quart and that should do it. The moral of this story is don’t freak out, get as much information as possible and if there is still actually something to freak out about, by that time, you will realize that freaking out, is never really helpful at all.

 

Wednesday January 11th 2023

By Food for thought

Today I completed 4 trips in the Uber app I made a little over $70.00 . I just took my vitamins there is no zinc/vitamin C orange pill this week so I just took everything else. Now I am about to ride the Peloton for 20 mins and then eat/take my Doctor prescribed marijuana then sleep!

Sunday 01/08/2023 My Favorite night of the week.

By Food for thought

Today I completed 4 trips total. I earned a little under $130.00. My last trip was this dude named Alex he was super cool. He advised he was in Florida for 4 days for a class. I drove him from Tampa International Airport to a prominent hotel in Downtown St. Petersburg. He advised last summer he drove for Uber full time while he was between jobs. He said his new job reimbursed him for all travel expenses, since he drove for Uber before he advised he tipped me $20.00 in the app. That was very cool. I wish all my riders were like Alex. But unfortunately, wishing seldom works.

Saturday January 7th 2023

By Food for thought

The Uber app says I completed 3 trips today.I made a little over $95.00 which is nothing. My new drone was delivered yesterday from Amazon. One was delivered before Christmas Day, but I couldn’t get the controller to connect to the drone. I tried everything I knew and then I tried everything that YouTube said to try and nothing still. I remember thinking I have never had a problem like this before. So I sent it back and got this one. I charged the battery, updated the firmware, did a test flight in my room, everything with this drone went off without a single problem. That is good because I need it for tomorrow. Now I am about to take my vitamins and ride the Peloton and then I got some work on the computer to do. I got home tonight at 7:30PM Saturday nights are the best days of the week to drive for Uber, I don’t drive at night anymore. Sunday’s during the days are awesome too, Oh, and all holidays. Federal or not.

Friday January 6th 2023

By Food for thought

Today January 6th, 2023 a few things happened today. I completed my 10,000th trip. I captured a lot of it and will post it up here within a couple days. It was an Oil Change Friday today I just happened to be paying attention while my oil level on arrival was being checked and even though I change it every 2 weeks it was below 25 percent. What that means to me is that I need to add at least a quart of oil on non-oil change Fridays now. I completed 4 trips today and made a little over $125.00.

Thursday January 5th 2023

By Food for thought

It’s 7:19 PM and I just walked in the door. day Today was a very slow for Uber Driving. The app says I completed 5 trips. Usually, the Uber app has me take a picture of myself once per week. Today it had me do it 3 times (I was using a separate device for the selfie camera.) I set an appointment to get my phone fixed next week on my day off. Because they couldn’t fix it last night and they said they could they are giving me a very good deal. The Uber application is a beast and it is a pretty good example of Artificial Intelligence and why humanity loves technology and invite’s it into their lives so much.

Wednesday 01/04/2023

By Food for thought

When I was at Walmart Monday my iPhone_7_plus fell out of the cart I was using
in the Parking lot. It fell face down and I didn’t notice that it fell
and then I stepped on it. I picked it up, looked at it real fast and it looked fine so
I was like “cool it didn’t break” later that day I saw that it was in fact damaged on the bottom near the fingerprint scanner
Despite the damage, everything worked perfectly. I did notice a problem with the camera it would take forever
for it to be ready to take a picture. I didn’t even try the selfie camera, I didn’t need it until today. The Uber application
kicked me offline after 3 or 4 declined trips and when I tried to go back online the Uber app couldn’t launch the selfie camera to
take a photo of myself. So after an hour on the phone with Uber support, I just said “fuck it” and drove to Ubreakifix. The good news is that the camera is part of the screen and they can completely fix it right now. The bad news is that it is going to cost me
$266.43 with sales tax to fix. If I did not have a credit card to pay for this to be fixed, I would be so screwed. There is nothing that Uber can
do for multiple days to resolve this problem. I would be better off getting another phone just to run the Uber app. I thought about doing that, and I just didn’t really want to have to deal with having 2 phones. So I am out in the parking lot of Ubreakifix now waiting on my
phone to be repaired. I am on my laptop connected to the hotspot I have in my car. I gave them my Gmail address and asked them to please email me at that address as soon as it is ready, they said that was “no problem.” first time I have heard those words all day.

I went in there after 1.5 hours and they told me that the screen for my phone was defective, the only screen that they had for my phone was white unless I wanted them to order a new one and I would have to wait 3-5 business days. I was like “fine use the white one but how much longer?” He said 10 more minutes, then after 30 minutes he came out and apologized he was going to have to return my phone not repaired. He told me something about $114.00 .

I found a work around I think. I was able to use an old IPad Pro that I use to fly my drones with to Authenticate with Uber. As soon as I did that, I am now able to go online via my iPhone. Which is cool, I spent no money and I am able now to earn with Uber now as long as I have that iPad with me.