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Saturday February 18th 2023 11:52AM EST

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Today, I was headed to Pinellas County to drive for the day, and I noticed this on the dashboard. I am just glad it didn’t happen with a passenger in the car, that has happened to me before, and it sux. I have already replaced this with a brand new part (on Page 2 of the maintenance log) These codes mean the ABS system is not functioning which makes the brakes really hard to press and not as effective at stopping the vehicle. I can still drive the vehicle, for example, there is now a Chipotle in Ellenton which I love, and I drove Ruby there with no problem, Monday when I need to go grocery shopping at Walmart I will drive there also. I just can’t put the usual 200 miles I put on Ruby each day. I gotta say, almost 500,000 miles anything that goes wrong with Ruby now, isn’t okay yet, but I understand why things fail. I have already ordered the part (using my mother’s CC of course lol) and contacted my mechanic. eBay (Amazon didn’t have the part this time) says the part won’t be here until 02-23-2023 – 02-25-2023 which is 1 week from today and then my mechanic doesn’t work on the weekends so I am looking at Monday 02/27/2023 for a repair date. So until then, I will be at this computer trying to earn money in a different way nothing new, I have needed to actually do that all along, and now, I have time to do it.

 

Friday February 17th 2024

By Food for thought

The Uber app says I completed 4 trips today. I earned a little over $155.00. I picked up this dude from the St. Petersburg Pier today and on the way to Tampa International Airport he told me Frontier airlines “Nickel and Dime” their passengers to death. He said Frontier charges $50.00 USD for each carry-on piece of luggage, carry-on not checked baggage and they charge you for picking your seat too. He said all the seats are priced differently. I know now, I will never fly Frontier.

Tuesday February 14th 2023 (Valentines Day)

By Food for thought

Today, I decided that I am not going to drive tomorrow. I am waiting for some car parts
(sway bar links) that was supposed to arrive today from Amazon but Amazon emailed me
and advised they will not arrive until tomorrow. The ones that are in there now were replaced
already but are making noise and I am really sure they are the cause of that noise. A rider Sunday
gave me a 1-star rating I am sure because of that noise, I also borrowed from Peter and have
all of the bills paid for the month of February so not earning from driving tomorrow won’t hurt me as bad as it usually would. I will spend most of the day after I repair Ruby adding pages and writing my ridesharing ebook. There is plenty to
do, that is for sure.

 

Update: The parts came on 02/15/2023 from Amazon and I installed them on Ruby with success. That completely resolved the noise
issue that I am pretty sure got me a 1 star
rating last Saturday 02/11/2023. This is what I learned: I installed these in 2020 and I followed the same video, I watched a lot of
other videos but this is the main one I used to swap the part. I also used the actual parts from 1AAuto. This time, I used sway bar links from “suspension dudes” the 1AAuto ones you absolutely have to put on with a wrench and a #6 Allen key to “counter hold” the post with threads on it. I used “suspension dudes”
this time and I will now every time going forward because I can do the entire job with my electric impact wrench. There is no need to “counter hold” anything, which was awesome because I couldn’t find my number 6 Allen key.
if I needed that, I would of had to wait on one to be delivered from Amazon. Ruby is our only vehicle and it was down because I removed the old ones with my impact wrench and needle nose pliers. When I changed them in 2020, I used the flat tire Jack in the back of Ruby, I didn’t have a floor Jack yet. When just a single tire is lifted, it puts pressure on the sway bar. I was able to struggle and get the links on, but that struggle knocked my front end alignment way off and my front tires started wearing right away.

 

Sunday February 12th 2023 StupidBowl Sunday 2023

By Food for thought
  1. The Uber app says I completed 5 trips today. I earned a little over $117.00. It was a $400.00 weekend! I don’t remember a $400.00 weekend happening and at all in 2022, but maybe. It’s Sunday night my favorite night of the week and I am starving. There are 2 New York strips in the fridge waiting for me to broil them. I prefer rib-eye’s but there was no grass fed ribeye’s. I probably should have looked at the U.S. DUH section. Well off to ride the Peloton. Oh, I got some mini-Pre-rolls from Surterra today they were 40 percent off. So $25.20 for 10 of them all I need is one!

Saturday February 11th 2023

By Food for thought

I drove my ass off today! The Uber app says I completed 7 trips and I earned a little over $180.00. I also got 1 starred today. So my 4.97 rating that I just got back that is shown on the front page is now back down to a 4.96! I am pretty certain it was because of noise caused by torn sway bar links that I am going to repair Monday anyway. I have already replaced them once but they’re torn again so I will replace them again also today for the first time ever the slow speed on the windshield wipers doesn’t work unless I put them on high speed first. So I will source a new motor tonight and hopefully that will resolve the issue. I am now off to ride the Peloton.

Friday February 10th 2023

By Food for thought

The Uber app says I completed 3 trips today. I earned a little more than $105 dollars. I won’t eat any vitamins until Sunday night after I eat my steaks. I am going to ride the Peloton 2x each day still though.