I forgot to blog last night, that is a side effect of not blogging as soon as I get home. I try not to forget, but I do. I just fell asleep soon after I ate. The Uber app says I completed 3 trips yesterday and I earned a little over $100.00. It rained in St. Petersburg yesterday and my wipers worked on all speeds which is a good thing because my mechanic didn’t have time to do anything last time but replace the brake actuator which is a pretty big job
It UPS arrived with the new/used head (342.40 shipped) unit for my car. It worked perfectly! I watched a couple videos again, went out there, took out the Map disk from the old unit first (2019) (62.04 shipped) using what I just learned on YouTube, took out the old unit, put in the new unit and everything works perfectly! I put in the new unit and then came in and rode the Peloton and tomorrow I will go driving with that new unit, the Aux cable works again! So does everything else. I can tell which road I am currently driving on and CD’s play again too! So awesome!
The Uber driver app says I took a single trip today, I made just over $60.00. Waze also told me that there were $4.00 in SunPass tolls. I am trying to cut down an the miles on Ruby so I don’t leave home until like noon time. Tonight I got home at exactly 8:01 PM. The immediate pay for Uber though is freedom. That is immediate though. You really need to have already like $50K per year. Or you will be old and broke like me. I am blogging right now and literally rolling over to sleep.
Today is Monday, and this is spring break month. Also, it is the beginning of a new month. What I have been doing with my mother’s help
for about the past year or so anyway. I have a Square card reader and account that was the idea of the rideshare guy a long time ago.
that card reader connects to my phone via Bluetooth and gives me the ability to accept credit card payments. Of course, Square takes their
processing fee before they deposit the remainder in my bank account. My square account was pretty easy to set up and I do not need another bill each month
so I went with them, they also handle any disputes that may arise so that is cool too. I initially set up that account then.
I also have a square terminal that does everything. It is pretty cool, it takes chip cards like the small reader that I have and
also has the ability to process cards via the strip or it allows me to key in the card if I need to. Also, they have some type of payment link
to process payments over the web. The Square Terminal has a screen on it that prompts the user of the card to sign and also it has a printer in it and
it holds receipt paper so it has the ability to print a transaction receipt on the spot. I connect it to my wifi but I think there is a way for it to
store multiple transactions and upload them when you can get to a connection, it is good for processing transactions in a remote location (like in my car)
and it is rechargeable too. So at the beginning of each month, I process via the terminal a charge that allows me to pay for all the bills for the month,
all my credit card minimum payments (6 of them), and her minimum payments for her credit cards (3 of them), the rent, my “Child Support” payment for my kid that lives in
a foreign country that never contacts me, with a heroin-addicted mother. This allows me to concentrate on creating content and selling that content. Which has not
really been going that well but I keep creating any way.
The Uber app says I completed 5 trips today. I earned just over $105.00. I am now going to blog each night from my bed. This is so awesome! Most people would say yeah that is no big deal. But, to me it is a HUGE deal. Nothing even remotely close to this kind of convenience
was possible at all until the internet and these Mobile devices were invented. I blogged before the Peloton and after I took my vitamins
but that has been officially changed by me. See
it’s pretty rad not having to check with anyone to make a change like that I just do it!
today was kind of easy going, even though I had no tunes. I was going to use my sport clip SanDisk MP3 player but it kept cutting off so I just connected my IPhone to that Bluetooth speaker and created a playlist called “Rideshare” and added a bunch of songs to it. They’re all different Genres. I was pretty much was trying to focus on song without Curse/Swear words in it.
The Uber app says I completed 2 trips today I earned a little over $65.00. When I earn some passive income and pay off all this debt one hopefully soon. That $65.00 will be like nothing. Right now though, that $65.00 is a lot of money. See, when you earn very little it forces you to keep everything as low as possible. I am laying in my bed, blogging on my 6 year old iPhone 7 Plus, I have my weed vaporizer right here and my remote controller right next to me and I am in charge! I am very grateful for everything I have right now (except that stupid debt) hopefully I will get rid of that crap soon! I sent out that drone footage to Truist HQ in North Carolina a little while ago. I will edit that footage for Lewis tree service soon. That head UNIT for Ruby won’t be in my hands until Thursday. I purchased a Bluetooth speaker and just created a playlist called “Rideshare” and I keep it below my legs on the floor until Thursday.
I am still at home today. Ruby is fine but she has no stereo/backup camera. I have tried everything, I think.
another bad thing about everything not working is I have no backup camera and I did not know
how much I depended on that camera until I had to back up without one. umm, it sux!
The problem started when I had the Brake actuator installed again this time. When I had it fixed in 2018,
it absolutely did not happen then. I was way different then. I did not know exactly what it was
I heard this pump turning on a lot. I remember this one guy asked me when he was sitting next to me
in the shotgun seat what it was, I said I dunno. I didn’t, I remember taking back then to the Stealership
and they charged me $69.00 to tell me what I already knew, they told me they could fix it for some astronomical
price. I was like “naw, I am good” I found a hybrid repair place and they took out the old and put in the new
part for $999.00 plus tax I think which was a way better price than the Toyota Dealership quoted me.
Anyway at that time the brakes were it was giving me some codes AND a loud audible alarm was sounding.
When I called the hybrid place, it was way past dark and this dude picked up the phone. I told him about
my problem and gave him those codes and he immediately knew what was wrong. Then he told me how much it was going
to cost to fix it labor included and I was like dang for real. He was like yeah, that’s an expensive repair.
This time when I saw it, the brakes got hard, and the same lights were on the dashboard but there was no audible alarm.
which was cool because that shit was super annoying. I tried clearing the codes and looking online, but when I told the guy who fixed
it about the noise he told me the only way to silence that noise, was to repair the actual problem. Anyway, back to my current problem(s)
lol. I searched around eBay and found a few units like mine and to get that entire unit uses they want $500.00 bux. So I kept looking.
I reached out to 5 star stereo installations
after seeing their work on youtube, I thought these people are good and then he asked the device he was installing, what the weather
was to test it, the device spoke back that the weather in Clearwater will be blah, blah, blah so I was like “that is Pinellas
County, Florida I go there all the time. I called them today and I spoke to a dude named Pual and he told me it would cost
$1400.00 I was like “Okay thanks I’ll be in touch” I was prepared to go up to $900.00 but that was way too much. So I guess I will just go the eBay route.
and do it myself. There are a lot of conversions to newer units for $200 but with a lot of those you have to also get a dash kit, and the wire harness
has to be a good one, and there were cables that need to run, and I do not feel confident doing all that. I just want everything to work.
If I am doing it myself, I just want to slide out the old one, and plug in some cables and slide the new one in. So I have a few in my watched items
on eBay I will go there and “pill the trigger” on one after this blog post. I figure it won’t get to me probably until next week sometime
so I will order from Amazon a speaker to plug into my MP3 player, and get it overnighted and ill drive for Uber on Saturday.
The Map DVD for my car came today, yes a day early! That never happens when I need it to.
The Map DVD didn’t work. I am going to have to replace the entire head unit. I have seen
several videos on youtube so far and there is no question that I can do it myself.
For a used head unit for my car, it’s like $500.00 plus tax and shipping probably.
There are a lot of people that convert them to an android head unit and brand new
they cost like $200.00 but if I was going to convert it, I need the new unit to match right up
and it does not. There is a lot of matching and connecting cables and I really don’t want
to deal with all that. I will if I have to, but I really do not want to go that route.
There are also a couple of things I can try tomorrow. It would really be awesome if
I didn’t need to change anything at all. I was thinking though, Ruby has been a really good
car over the years and whenever there was a problem, I had the part that was causing the problem
swapped out with a new one and that resolved the issue always, so what I am going through right now with
Ruby is understandable. I just need her to get me through until Quarter 4 this year. I am not
trading her in either, I am going to keep her until I die LOL.
I have been working on this website for most of the day today. Obviously, I still won’t drive for Uber without good music. Good sounding music is very important. I edited some drone video I took earlier this month and uploaded it to the cloud I sent a sample link via email to them. I sent that email at like 2PM today ET. If I don’t have an email on it when I wake up, I will send a letter to their Headquarters in New York City. I went grocery shopping and to the Dollar Twenty Five Tree today. This is like nothing to Ruby! I been driving Ruby for like 200 miles everyday except for Mondays and Tuesdays now.