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Monday February 27th 2023

By Food for thought

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.

Sunday February 26th 2023

By Uncategorized

The head unit in Ruby/my car is still down. I didn’t drive for Uber again today. I was thinking this is the longest forced vacation
I have had since I started driving for Uber. Today I took some drone footage of a chipotle near where I live, the bank next door and
Lewis tree trux that are parked nearby. All three places were so close together, I was able to film them all with a single battery.
When the battery gets down to 5 minutes, the remote starts making this loud audible noise and then like 30 seconds later, it starts
returning to home (which I always cancel). That feature is kind of cool when you first start flying drones, but it gets annoying real quick.
So I always try to land or start heading back to land when there is 6 or more minutes left on the battery to avoid that alarm.
There are a lot of other things to pay attention to while flying, so I wasn’t paying attention to the battery time. I was filming the Lewis
tree trux and that alarm started going off. I was able to land it, without the return to home feature starting.

Saturday February 25th 2023

By Food for thought

I didn’t drive for Uber again today. Everything
else with Ruby is fine. I have thought about this a lot today. I could just get a speaker to play music from my MP3 player. Good-sounding music is so important though. I guess I am not driving this weekend because I don’t have to. I borrowed from Peter this month everything is paid. I try to be productive as possible. I edited some footage and sent out a letter today. There is a WaWa getting built on the Southwest corner of 54th Avenue North and 66th Street in St. Petersburg, FL. I took some drone footage of that and sent it to their headquarters in Pennsylvania. Then I edited some more videos to upload later. I try to do something that may produce, each day.

Friday February 24th 2023

By Food for thought

I just got home from picking up Ruby/my car from AutoMedic. The brake issue is resolved but something was reset by the tech there and the clock time is like 2 hours off, a full tank of gas usually says like 425-450 miles it said 515, and the head unit in Ruby has an error on it that says “insert map DVD” the only button on the radio that worx is the eject button, it opened the screen and then spit a disk out from a slot that I didn’t even know existed. That screen used to have something that told you what road you are driving on right then. It was very handy, you wouldn’t think so, but it was. When it stopped working I noticed right away. It said something about updating the navigation map for over 6 months. Everything except the navigation still worked. Music is EXTREMELY important in a Rideshare vehicle. With that error on the screen, NOTHING works, not even the backup camera, nothing. I watched a couple YouTube videos on it and I saw this one that had this dude, he showed his screen and it had the exact same message. He tried everything except replacing the complete head unit (which I sourced/priced at $300.00 for the used part plus my labor. He listed a lot of the trouble shooting he had already done (he was young like 25 or so. He did not let on anything at all. He said his absolute last troubleshooting step was to buy the DVD he said he got the newest possible revision and it was 2017 he put it in, and it worked, I saw it with my own eyes. The newest revision now is 2019 so I bought one from EBay unfortunately, Amazon didn’t have it. It will be in my hands 03/03/2023 – 03/05/2023. It cost $62.19 shipped if it would of changed the latest date getting to me, I would have paid it, but it didn’t. So I will drive for Uber Saturday 03/06/2023 probably.

Friday February 23 2023

By Food for thought

I just got back to Ellenton after dropping Ruby off to get a new/use ABS accumulator and pump. The Uber ride home was in a Toyota Camry, White not sure exactly what year, but it was a very nice car. The only way I could describe that car in a single word: clean!

Wednesday February 22nd 2023

By Food for thought

I went to the UPS store and the Bank today in Ruby, the ABS light blinked for a moment other than that there was no problem at all with Ruby. Tomorrow night I will drive Ruby to AutoMedic and take an Uber or Lyft (whichever is cheaper) home.

Tuesday February 21st 2023

By Food for thought

Ruby is still down. I took it to the UPS store down the street.
it still did not have the light lit on the dashboard. The brakes were
normal also. The part arrived today. I still have an apointment with
automedic I will drop Ruby off there Thursday night.