That’s not to sound ominous or anything, especially now with the virus….I just meant I migrated this site to a regular wordpress blog a few years ago. I actually forgot this was still up here, so I wanted to post again to redirect people in case they stumble upon this. The new site is http://www.tipthedriver.com
Anyway, I hope everyone is healthy, I hope we all keep our calm, we can get through this together, and it’ll just be one of those great stories we tell around campfires or at bars.
I may or may not post here again. Go to my site: http://www.tipthedriver.com It’s all about all my years of delivery, driving a taxi, and doing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, UberEats, Grubhub, and so forth.
I’m going to do it today, i swear! I got distracted on the internet yesterday and by the time I went to do it it was after 4pm. Here in Connecticut at this time of year that’s when you’ve already lost the sun. I have plenty of lights in my garage to do this sort of thing, I have my regular lights, I have a 120 watt flood light,and i have a 500 watt flood light. In the summer time when I have my Rav4 up on ramps it helps to see when I’m working under the car. Speaking of that, here’s a tip: always put one of the wheels under the car when you’re under it working on it assuming it’s not on wheel ramps. When it’s on the ramps I make sure those are the right angle before driving up so there’s no overhang, I then put the car in park. When I drove stick shift i’d put it in first gear when I shut it off like when you park facing up a hill. Then I put the wheel chocks, and after that I use the jack stands on both sides. Just in case.
Anyway, when the sun’s going down it’s time to go out. I’m so behind on things I need to do that I tend to let stuff pile up. Right now I have a ton of bills I have to pay, so that’s my main concern. I owe everyone money. So these projects get pushed back in my mind. Right now I’m going to go get ready to go do this stuff. And then I need to wash the car and do the interior.
Okay, all showered, on my way to do the car camera and other stuff =)
I’ve been watching these car crash videos forever online thinking I should get one of those cameras, and as a rideshare driver, it’d be helpful in case anything ever happens. I think I’ve had it for about 6 months now. It’s sitting in the box on my computer desk. I think today might be the day I finally install it. I’ve gotten so lazy lately. I’m like two years behind in my magazines, about ten years behind in the books I’ve amassed, and projects like this just sit there forever, it seems.
The only real issue I have is I need to jump a fuse to make it work since it’ll need an always on power supply. That requires pulling out my car’s manual to figure out which fuses are hot (always on) all the time. It has to be a hot fuse or the camera will shut off when I shut the car off. It’s better to have it always on so if you’re parked somewhere and someone hits you, you have evidence of it. Or you never know, your camera could catch a crime. So, maybe in a little bit I’ll head out to the garage and do that. It’s been a while since I washed my car, I might do that, too. And if I do that I may as well clean the inside, and if I do that, I may as well put the new lights in.
I had those cool LED lights on the inside of the car that light up different colors, change with the music, etc, but they’re stuck on red now. I guess they don’t last very long. Anyway, I have a regular light strip you’d use say outside somewhere that you can control by remote, and they only go from white to a gold white color, so I thought I’ use those. They illuminate the car, allowing me to see the passengers and allowing the camera to not have to work as hard recording.
So, yeah: that’s my project today.
P.S. I DO have stickers to place in the car to let everyone know they’re being recorded.
“While employers pay most of the costs of coverage, according to the survey, workers’ average contribution is now $6,000 for a family plan. That’s just their share of upfront premiums, and doesn’t include co-payments, deductibles and other forms of cost-sharing once they need care.” —That’s if you have an employer. If you’re self-employed you either pick a catastrophic plan, a bronze plan, neither of which cover very much, or pay a LOT more for Silver or Gold. Even then with Silver and Gold most things aren’t covered and you run into that deductible.
Here’s what I don’t get: places like Canada their health care costs are a tenth of what ours are for the same or better care. The US ranks around 20th in the world for quality of health care, so that idea republicans have that we have the best care simply isn’t true. How you “feel” doesn’t reflect reality. Like we all think our education is the best in the world, and that isn’t true, either. Both are very good, but how do countries with much longer life expectancies, with higher qualities of life, and more satisfaction manage to do it? Higher taxes. I don’t know, for me the trade-off is worth it. Americans are so greedy it’s sad. Instead of having the most people in the developed world die who could’ve been saved we choose profit. Instead of rehabilitating people who run afoul of our laws we choose to piss away tax dollars to lock them up. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world and with many prisons being for profit, you can see why. And those people are statistically more likely to hit that revolving door because we’d rather spend tax money to give to for profit prisons because it “feels better” to punish people, than to divert them to programs that are proven to work and end those cycles.
Mr. Medal of Freedom, Rush Limbaugh is a great example of that. He’s a hardliner when it comes to drug abuse. He says we should “put them in jail and throw away the key”. But having means, when he himself became addicted and got busted with illegal prescriptions wanted our compassion and understanding, then bought his way out of trouble. He now has no sympathy for other people without means in the same boat and still thinks we should lock them up and throw away the key. He’s a hypocrite. Especially when we know the programs he benefited from can actually work for other people, too, if they want the help. But, yeah, let’s keep pissing away tax dollars on things that don’t work to avoid spending them on things that do.
And Trump’s latest plan to gut the ACA further than he has, and to dismantle Social Security and Medicare to pay for his tax cuts to the top will only make the situation much worse. Everyone over 65 reading this probably gets one or both of those programs. If they go away completely you’d be fine? If so, why are you using either right now?
Using tax dollars in ways that make sense isn’t Socialism. Not even that Socialism is a dirty word. Republicans love using Venezuela as the ONLY example of what will happen to the United States if we take care of the poor, if we have decent free education, and make sure everyone has food, and medicine when they need it. It’s funny how you never use countries like Norway in your examples. Or New Zealand. Or Canada. Or Japan. Japan has one of the longest life expectancies on Earth, the lowest murder rate in the world, and somehow the people manage to make a decent living, and have pretty decent lives. But, yeah, let’s keep saying the US can only turn out to be like Venezuela. That assumes the majority of Americans are too stupid to go in any other direction. That sounds like a red state problem to me. The life expectancy in the United States is longer in Blue states with Connecticut having the longest life expectancy in America. Blue states also have lower crime rates, lower health problems, lower amounts of suicide, higher test scores, less teen pregnancy, less abortion, more college graduates, higher per capita GDP. We can do it if we all work together.
We just need to eliminate greed, and be willing to compromise and use some common sense,
I’m not sure what happened, but one day a few weeks ago I got an email saying my account was permanently deactivated. I appealed the decision and they said I had to submit a photo ID. I didn’t want to do that since I’d used it already to change my name on my backup account. So just for giggles I sent them a meme making fun of Trump. Somehow they knew from that it was me and my account was unlocked like a day later.
One of the first things I did was add my phone number back, then I set up 2FA on the account so this nonsense hopefully never happens again. My backup account is growing nicely, though. Up to like 1200 friends on that one, My original is just shy of 5,000 friends with like 1500 followers.
While Facebook doesn’t owe us anything, they do get a lot of data from us and make it virtually impossible to stop that. Like location. You can disable every location tracking setting and according to at least one article I read tonight, Facebook doesn’t care and tracks you anyway, and uses that data to target you with ads. If all this data is worth money to them, we <i>are</i> worth something to them. I had a Facebook account hacked. Their solution was to leave it active, but remove my phone number, not give me the option to add it back, leaving me with no way to verify who I am (they require a phone number for the sms codes). Filling out the locked accounts form doesn’t work, because it’s not locked. Trusted contacts won’t work, because you can’t add the phone back. Nothing works. 14 years if Facebook killed by a hacker who they give more rights to than rightful account owners. I’ve though about giving it up altogether a few times. My wife says all I do is argue with people on it, but it’s still a way to keep in touch with people you might not have otherwise, and much easier. As for sending nudes, one would think in private messages that would be okay. Hell, years ago I did that and never got banned. I got a few warnings. They’re very ambiguous about their rules. Any article that makes fun of Trump, even written by Time gets flagged as spam. I’ve had pictures flagged that weren’t nude or vulgar in any way. One guy posted a picture of an Oreo getting dunked in milk and was banned for life for posting sexually explicit material, with no way to appeal it. Like what’s that about? I saw the picture: it was an Oreo getting dunked in milk. Nothing weird about it at all, but he lost his account for life because Facebook says it’s too kinky.
What they <i>should</i> do for account holders who haven’t violated any rules is monetize support. It’d be a good revenue stream and people would happily pay $20 or more to get a resolution. Some people were smart enough to set up multiple accounts years ago “just in case”. But we shouldn’t have to resort to that just because Facebook is ambiguous, or simply doesn’t care. Hypothetically, if everyone decided they had enough and Billions voluntarily deleted their accounts, where would they be? No one young likes it to begin with. It could wind up going the way of Myspace. Why push people who want to be on it out the door?
My wife woke me up this morning to ask why my Facebook account is deactivated. That’s the message you see from friend’s accounts. When I tried to log in, it said my account was hacked and I needed to go through the security steps. The first code came to my phone just fine, the second code for the 6 digit version of their 2FA wouldn’t come because there’s no phone number listed. I’ve tried everything and nothing’s worked. I see a new account with my number, but when I tried to claim it it said it’s deactivated. When I tried to dispute that it wouldn’t let me because it claimed I was logged in to a working account. And of course “support” doesn’t do anything. I’ve had this account for 11 years. Is there any hope?
So, I thought I had all my old posts from that website someone pointed out, but, nope. So I still lost like a year’s worth of posts. Godaddy still won’t give me a copy of the site backup even if I pay them, so fuck Godaddy. Don’t host with them. The service quality sucks. If I have to be honest I do like the themes better, but that’s about it. I don’t spend enough time devoted to this site for it to really matter, anyway. The nice thing here is I have complete access to my website back end. If I need to inject code I can. Godaddy doesn’t allow that. One for reason to say fuck Godaddy,.
Okay, so I’m not sure if I should really qualify it as starting any more than I would posting here that I’m going to get better at updating this blog. I’m not. Don’t believe me if I write that. My life is hectic. I’m married, for one, so half my time I’m doing stuff with my wife. I also wok crazy hours doing the Uber thing. I should probably be out right now, but I really hate being out early. I hate the sun right now. A little after 12, when it starts heading the other direction, I can deal with it. Till 5 or 6 when it seems to be right in your face driving. So, my wife went to Peru for two weeks and a few days recently. She just got back last Tuesday. So in that time I did a lot of cleaning, paid some bills, took a lot of time off for myself, and one night, I sat down and started the first chapter of my book. I get distracted really easily, so I probably wrote about 2,000 words and stopped. And, depending on the time of day, I can’t really type for some reason. Like right now. I think I’m doing about 40wpm. I just woke up an hour ago, and I’m still tired. I usually type between 100 and 150 wpm. Yeah, fast. I can actually one hand type about 40wpm. I’m doing it right now. Okay, now I’m back to two hands for not much improvement.
So my goal today is to do Door Dash and Uber. I need to do DD every so often to keep my account active. Uber I do all the time. I did some car repairs. New spark plugs, I put in new calipers in the back myself. New discs and pads all around, new tries, I put new headlights in so I could have projectors. That may have been a mistake. I don’t know. The lED headlights I have I got for free to try them out. I had been using them as fog lights. My new housing unit uses the same size for low beams so that’s where they are right now. But they’re really dim and I had to create an adapter on my own to go from 9006 make to h11 female. That was fun. I just ordered new bright LEDs. If that doesn’t work I’ll switch to HIDs again for my low beams. See? I just got distracted again. I was looking up prices, posting an add for my old headlight assemblies free, checking emails, and now I think I’m gonna go eat something 😛
I probably should have backed up the work I did the last few months. That was really brilliant of me to forget to do. I have a backup of my blog, but it’s from November, somehow. So, I’m back on Godaddy. They’re not the cheapest, they don’t have the best service, they don’t have the best features, but it’s comfortable, and their tech support is 24/7 and always fixes my issues. I like that. I just installed like 50 plugins, so I have to go through all of those at some point and make sure the settings play nice with each other, and delete the crap I don’t use. I’ve been blogging since 2009, but, quite honestly, I haven’t been paying much attention to what the plugins can do. The biggest thing that annoys me is prior to moving to 1&1,I had like 30,000 visitors a month. My page was ranked pretty high, and it wa worth some money. Switching lost me all of my traffic. Switching back lost me traffic again. So I’m staying with Godaddy. My wife thinks it’s a waste of money, but I like blogging.
So since July, I’ve been driving for Uber. I like it. I also do some of the other services like DoorDash, which I might do tonight. In the summer I was making about $50 an hour doing this. I kind of burned myself out and got lazy. I’ve mostly been doing UberEats, the food delivery side, just to avoid people. But I’m going to get back into the passenger side of it. And I’ll focus on cities closer to NYC so I get those good airport trips and Manhattan rides. Those pay $60-$100 depending on the distance and time. Plus, I get to walk around Manhattan when I go into the city. I can’t pick up there since I don’t live in NY unless I get the taxi license. That’s way too much hassle, so I’m not doing it. I went out for a few hours for lunch doing Eats, and I’ll go back out in a little bit doing more of that, then more passengers later. Right now, I think I’m going to watch a show, so I’ll ttyl. Soon, though, I promise for real this time.
Yeah, been doing that since July. I had to quit that pizza place, working 50 hours a week to make $500 is just nuts. Then you deduct gas and everything else and it’s like “what the hell am I thinking?”. Granted, if you’re at a really busy restaurant it’s not a bad gig. You can make $200 a day if you work all day. But I can make that in 4 hours now, so why work the extra 8 hours doing that nonsense?
So Thanksgiving Eve I made some mistakes. I took a few surging at 2.2 when I was in an area surging at 5.5 because I’m way too quick to hit the accept button. I need to focus more. I also need to learn to sleep more so I don’t get tired while I’m out. And I have bad habits like playing with my tablet while I’m in the car. I need to learn to drive. When I do drive it’s much easier to focus and the day goes by quick. I meet a lot of cool people doing this job. Anyway, I was really just editing some script on here, so I’ll try to remember to post tomorrow.
I quit working at the pizza place I was working t in Trumbull. Now I’m doing ridesharing. Yaaaaay! The pay is much better, but it’s really hard to be disciplined, and it’s hard dealing with drunks and ungrateful people all the time. The stupid score we have to maintain is just nuts. College students and drunks think four stars is a good rating, but what they don’t realize is four stars is low enough to get you fired. You need above a 4.6 or you get deactivated. Every time I take college students I regret it. I started out a 4.86 tonight and now I’m back to 4.83 because of asshole college students who want to feel powerful. And that power comes at the price of people’s jobs, and longer wait times for them. It’s stupid. They pay a third of what they would with a taxi and should be grateful, but are entitled assholes instead. The safest time to do the job is early in the day, like 5am-2pm. You can get all the same volume, all the same distances, with none of the shitty ratings. It’s amazing these companies don’t realize they’re penalizing drivers for making them money late at night.
I’ve looked EVERYWHERE and I can’t find a single site backup from before. Other than the one from 2017. I don’t know which is more likely, that I was just lazy and stupid about it, or misplaced it. I suppose the xml file could exist under another name, but I question what I would’ve renamed it. I checked everywhere, and I even looked at my emails. i sometimes send files to myself as a way to back them up.
Godaddy is still basically saying “Fuck You” as far as a site backup goes. They claim they only keep a backup for 30 days. I’m calling bullshit on that. I bet if it were a law enforcement issue they’d somehow “find” the backup. They’re doing it out of spite for not wanting to pay $15 a month for a non-monetized wordpress site. I should’ve stuck with these guys here or maybe even 000. It just seems really petty and spiteful.
So, in case you’re wondering: NO, I do not recommend GoDadday for hosting.
So Godaddy tells me yesterday that despite what they said in my BBB complaint that they do not actually have a site backup for me. So they lied, and all that work I failed to update is gone. I really don’t know what happened to it. I thought I made manual copies but so far all the ones I checked all seem to be missing the whole last year. Not to mention the fact that I can’t seem to get the xml file to load the right way and it looks like shit on here. I’m going to have to ask these guys how to get it to install the right way, but either way, it looks like all that work is gone. I’m beyond frustrated by it. I had dozens of posts. I am really bad at making regular posts to my site, so losing those is a huge blow to me. I keep saying I’m going to do this more, but i get distracted so easily. I ague with trolls on Facebook and Twitter, I’m looking at porn, I’m playing online games, I’m downloading tv shows: II’m doing everything but writing. The good news is I work for Uber and Lyft so I have lots of new stories to post about. But right now I need to go out and work. I do have a camera, now, too, so maybe I can post some of the videos.
My ex blocked me today after I sent a pic of a car I was parked next to that had bullet holes. I was like “You know you’re in Bridgeport when you see this”. She got offended. Years ago she had a sense of humor and used to poke fun at Bridgeport, too.
Most of the issue is me. She told me I should just apologize and drop it. I chose to argue instead, but the reason why is just because we’re not together any more doesn’t mean I need to change who I am to talk to her. She’s ultra-pc with me claiming she treats everyone the same. I’ve never seen her get mad at any friends or anyone in general who ever made comments like that. Just me. I even told her, “I don’t even know how to talk to you any more, I have to keep replies to yes or no so I don’t offend you ” She’d probably say not being with me any more, and we officially ended things in 2012, means she doesn’t have to take my b.s. any more. Funny thing about that: she’s insulting all the time. The few times I said something she justified it or flat out said something like too bad. Hypocrites are profoundly annoying.
This is the same girl who calls me every time she has an issue, or is upset, or needs advice, or whatever. Then she picks a fight so she can block me and go back to not talking to me. She’ll point out that I’m 46, like she did every age for every year, but point out that she’s 35 and blocking people is childish, see how that goes. I used to love our conversations, but now it seems like she’s testing me to see how long it takes me to say anything at all she can snap at me for. Same girl forgives literally everyone else in her life, except me. And she still blames me for everything bad in her life.
I let things go. Why keep talking to someone you hate? The past is the past. She fucked me over plenty. She used me every bit as much as I used her. She tested me just as badly as I ever did her. But when we ended it, I let the past go. She holds grudges. Forever, apparently.
So, I’m blocked for now. Something will happen eventually and she’ll need me again, she’ll unblock me, get whatever it is she needs, then block me again. Kinda fucked up. Maybe next time I’ll just ignore her, or maybe I’ll be just as cold to her as she always is to me.
<strong>B</strong>y hate, I don’t mean like I
hate mushrooms, or like you might hate Mondays. I mean hate like a Boston
resident hates the Yankees. Hate like Putin has for America. Hate like
Republicans have for equality. That sort of hate. Vitriol would be a better
word for how she feels about me. Yet, still, she gets in touch. I’m not sure
why. My wife always asks me, “Why do you talk to her? You know she’s just going to use you for whatever
the current crisis she has, then tell you she hates you and not to talk to her
anymore.” And that’s what she does, every single time, yet
<em>still</em>, she gets in touch, again, and again, after that.
My personal opinion is she’s mad at me for our relationship
not working, mad at me for sticking around all those years, mad at me for how
it happened to her dating someone, and mad at me for how her life turned out.
And yet, still she gets in touch. We dated officially from 2005-2007. I was 33,
she was just turning 21. I’ve always liked younger girls. Partly because I’m
immature on a lot of levels, partly because they expect less, partly because
they like sex as much as I do, and partly because, hell, younger
<em>is</em> better. They have more spirit, they’re more hopeful
about the future, they’re more understanding, and looking younger is nice, too.
She hasn’t talked to me in days since she said I sounded
conceited, and, of course, the minute I start typing this she sends me a
message on Whatsapp asking if I know of any good Asian pantries. I said, yes,
but you probably won’t like it. She asked, “why not?”. I should’ve
replied, “Because you hate me and everything I like, duh.”, but I
just sent her the address of a place I know and love. I try
<em>really</em> hard not to be petty when I talk to her, but she
pushes my buttons on purpose. Just the other day I happened to mention I
haven’t been drunk in like 5 years. Or high. So she immediately says,
“I’ve never seen you smoke weed.” So? Does that mean it never
happens? I used to hang out with drug dealers and lived with one. I’ve smoked a
LOT of weed in my day. I just lost interest for the most part. It happens.
People mature. Then I happened to mention my taste in alcohol changed and
that’s when she said I sounded conceited. I like things like “Macallan
18” now. While not the most expensive bottle, it is around $200. It’s not
because it’s so much that I like it, I actually happen to still like Jameson,
and that’s like $30 a bottle. It just is what it is.
Of course, after I send my recommendation, she says that’s
not the kind of place she’s looking for. Sure, because I named it. Just like
how for years I’ve been making tv show recommendations she’s largely been
ignoring, and music. Like “Game of Thrones”. I have the old texts
about the subject, asking if she checked it out yet. She kept saying it wasn’t
her kind of show, not to bug her about it, stop trying to get her to watch it.
Guess who <em>LOVES</em> Game of Thrones now? Do I get credit for
that? Nope. Not at all. I’ve also recommended other shows I still have no idea
if she ever checked out because of me that were seriously awesome like
“The IT Crowd”. Because <em>I</em> know what she likes,
when I see something, I say something. She <em>chooses</em> to be
contrary, just because it’s me suggesting it.
With music, she constantly acts like she’s the first and
only one listening to things I’ve been listening to before she was born. Take
David Bowie: I was listening to him when I was like ten. He was on the radio
<em>all the time</em>. I was born in 72, so I was listening to him
in 82 back when she was negative two years old. She’s one f those types that
hates labels, right, but has me labeled and boxed placed on the top shelf. Ask
her what my favorite band is and she says, “Godsmack, you have the
tattoo”. I have the tattoo because I <em>like</em> Godsmack,
and loved the design at the time. It’s still a pretty cool-looking tribal sun.
I <em>LOVE</em> Pink Floyd. I listen to them all the time. I’ve
been to see them in concert back in 92, right around the time she might’ve started
listening to thing like David Bowie. To assume that I can’t love Pink Floyd
because I have a tattoo of another band’s symbol is just silly. That places me
in a box. Then she’ll claim she only ever heard of me listening to bands A, B,
and C. Really? Were you not there when we were together? Was it because you
just weren’t interested in me that you never paid attention to what I liked?
That’s awesome, to find out later someone you were with for years, and years
after that paid so little attention. For the record,my favorite bands, in this
order, but I am muic-fluid, so: Pink Floyd, Tool/A Perfect Circle, David Bowie,
Tupac, Eminem, Duran Duran, Lacuna Coil, Motionless In White, Twenty One
Pilots, Imagine Dragons, and many others. For me, music is all about mood.
Sometimes I’m listening to Berlioz, or Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi,
Strauss, etc. She wouldn’t know that because apparently, she never paid
attention when I was listening to them. I <em>LOVE</em> anything
from the Baroque period. I even listen to Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Wisin, and
others. And there she’d make fun of me for liking it because I don’t speak
fluent Spanish. In the art world we’d call her a Stuckist, who defines what is
and isn’t art, and, by extension who is and isn’t a “real” fan.
Art is another thing I’m guessing she never noticed about
me. I <em>LOVE</em> art. I always have. She’d say something snarky
and cynical like, “Since when, I never saw that side of you.” To
which I’d reply, “Yeah, but you seemed to have missed everything else, so
which is more likely, that I’m vapid and devoid of any interests, or that you
just didn’t care enough to pay attention?” Seriously, Van Gogh is my
absolute favorite artist. I love everything about his work. I love the brush
strokes, the colors, the detail, the slight madness in what he was painting,
the emotions his works evoke, everything. I’ve gotten teary looking at his work
because they are <em>that</em> commanding to me. They’re just
<em>so</em> emotional, it’s hard to explain to someone who isn’t a
fan. And I like pretty much everything by Dali. I think he was way ahead of his
time, and there’s a man who could paint something to totally trip you out. Go
look at Dali paintings while listening to pretty much any album by Pink Floyd
(I’d go with Dark Side of the Moon on this adventure). I also like Munch,
Picasso, Da Vinci, and even Rockwell. I know Norman Rockwell isn’t in the same
class as the others, but it’s like liking butter pecan ice cream: it’s
<em>still</em> ice cream! Rockwell’s art just speaks to what should
have been a simpler time in life in America, the dream of the American Dream.
It’s rustic, it’s comforting, it makes me want to go to a lodge in Vermont one
snowy night and have hot cocoa while watching the snow fall softly on the
trees.
Anyway, after that two years together we mostly stayed
together for the next 5 years. We weren’t living together any more, and we had
an open relationship, but eventually she found someone and moved on. She
stopped calling me for sex, or for hanging out, and we rarely talked. Then I
met someone, fell in love with her, proposed, and we got married. My ex didn’t
like that at all. My wife is from South America and she felt she was using me
for a green card. She’s got that and we’re still together. So now I guess it’s
the full Monty, as they say, she’s waiting for her citizenship to leave me.
Even <em>IF</em> that were true: so? Who’s business is that but my
own? The guy my ex was dating for the longest time wasn’t the best boyfriend.
He really used her, ultimately left her twisting in the wind as he moved on. I
tried to warn her multiple times till she finally put her foot down one day and
said it was no one’s business but hers and as my friend I should back off.
While maintaining that as <em>my</em> friend she has the right to
speak out about <em>my</em> relationship if she thinks someone is
trying to hurt me. Now, how is that fair? I need to keep quiet to stay in her
good graces, and she gets to speak out when it comes to me? That’s not how this
works. Anyway, she might be right, she might be wrong, but if she wants to say
things she has to accept that I might want to in her situations, too. I think
the real reason she got so mad is I stopped waiting for her. It’s just my
opinion, of course, but I was always the safe one to fall back to. But I was
getting hurt. She used to call me al the time for sex, and I mean a lot, we did
it all the time, but then I have texts from her saying how much she hated
having sex with me. Like, really? It made me feel so cheap and used. And nine
times out of ten, she’d have me come over and scratch that itch for her, then
find something to get mad at me about to kick me out and not talk to me till
the next time she was horny.
And she’s always held me to a much higher standard than
anyone else in her life. Everyone has screwed her over at some point, some of
them multiple times and they’ve all been forgiven multiple times. I’m not
saying I’m innocent, those first two years I was a real asshole. I was cold a
lot of the time, I wound up in jail for three months because I fucked up, and
she waited for me, and I didn’t repay her the way I should have. Instead of
being loving I was spiteful. Instead of being patient, I was impatient. Instead
of being an adult, I was a petty child. I accept all that. I learned a lot from
being with her. But when we moved forward, I thought we were doing it with the
understanding the past is in the past and we were moving through time into the
future. This is the same shit that gets every guy: women never forget, there is
no such thing as the present or future, only past mistakes. They forgive
themselves for any trespasses in the past and expect you to, also, while being
determined to stay in the past with all your fuck-ups. It’s not fair, but it’s
what they do. Guys will go punch a wall or something and be over it. Girls will
mention shit years later and still act mad about it. That could be one example
of why monogamy is stupid. But not me, she’ll constantly bring up the past.
Even when we talk, now she’s forever dropping little examples of something that
happened ten years ago. She has a decent life. She’s in a great career, instead
of her being mad she might be a little grateful to me since it was
<em>me</em> who kept pushing her to go back to school to get a
degree. I kept telling her she’s too smart to settle for not having a degree
and she should go back. I was the one who got all the information for her about
school, and various programs and financial aid, and everything else. I swear, I
wonder why I bother helping people with anything. I’m okay with not getting
credit, but for fuck’s sake don’t be a dick about it to me.
She also thinks I’m racist. And sexist. And homophobic. Not
even fucking close. But <em>SHE</em> happens to be one of those
people on the faaaaaaar left. The ULTRA-PC Liberal no one gets. Like their
polar opposites: the Trump fans. That’s not to say she’s like them, but her
side of the political spectrum <em>is</em> as far away from
moderation as a Trump fan’s. She’s entitled to her opinions, of course, but no
one’s entitled to their own facts. Facts are facts. The fact is this: If I read
about something specific to race, orientation, gender, etc, I
<em>will</em> ask about it. In her mind it seems to be okay to be
critical of Whites, Males, Christians, and Heterosexuals, but no one else.
Everyone else is off limits, except possibly to member of their own race or
type. So when I say something like IF Bruce Jenner had actually been to blame,
he should go to jail. I realize SHE isn’t Bruce any more, but she was at the
time. I also don’t think Caitlyn deserved to be named “Woman of the
Year” for getting a sex change. Whatever you think of that issue, saying
what she did was more important than any other woman that year is bullshit.
Sorry. And that’s not me hating on people who get sex changes, that’s me saying
it’s just not right. The husband of a woman who rushed into one of the towers
on 9/11 to save lives and was killed returned hi award from Glamour over it. It
was to him like saying what Caitlyn sacrificed was the same as dying saving
lives in a terrorist attack like 9/11. Rose McGowan took issue with it because
prior to her sex change, then Bruce had enjoyed male privilege his whole life.
Women have spent their <em>entire lives</em> suffering for the
benefit of their fellow human, and it just seemed like a bad choice. Does she
deserve recognition? <strong>Of course. Over and over,
YES.</strong> Does she deserve <em>more</em> recognition than
say Pragya Singh, who has helped hundreds of burn victims, or the women in the
Middle East braving those same attacks for learning or teaching, or any number
of other women here or around the world? In my personal opinion, no. It just
doesn’t rise to that level. For a lot of people Caitlyn gives them hope, and
that’s great. It’s awesome that she’s there for their cause, her cause, too,
but I just don’t think it rises to the same level and I shouldn’t be considered
a bigot or Homophobic because of it. I have a LOT of Gay friends. Guess what: they
all agree. That’s another funny thing: I <em>do</em> have a lot of
Gay friends. It just doesn’t occur to me that they’re Gay above and beyond all
of two minutes if they’re extra flamboyant. I’ve had several Gay roommates,
three to my best guess, several Bisexual roommates, why does it even matter?
Every year I go the the art show here in Bridgeport to show my support for
them, a lot of them are friends with me either in real life, or we keep in
touch on Facebook, I’ve hung out at <strong>Trevi</strong> in
Bridgeport numerous times, I’ve been to their houses for parties, and see some
of them almost daily. If I were Homophobic, why would I do that? Granted, I
don’t have any Lesbian friends, but that’s not by design, it just happens that
I don’t. As for minorities, I have tons of minority friends and my wife is
Hispanic from South America. Everyone has racist ideas from one time to
another. My ex has made comments about the way the Jewish people at her high
school treated her. I’m not sure what their being Jewish had to do with it, but
it had some sort of meaning for her. And she’s never been shy about saying
something about Whites that she doesn’t like. Personally, I have no problem
with any group of people, but I really hate ignorant people. Of <strong>ALL</strong>
races. I just choose to not be around them. It’s not racist. My wife is the
same way. She, too, hates ignorant people. Not because of their skin color, but
if I had to name one group I can’t stand more than anyone else based on skin
color? Whites. Again, not in general, but rednecks piss me off. They were
handed the keys to the kingdom and fucked it up. You have every opportunity to
get ahead and not look like an idiot, but, instead, you’re trying to bed
relatives, your car has no wheels and plants growing out of it, and you look
like trash. Sorry. So I try to avoid areas like “the valley”. As for
sexist? I don’t know, I try to be as chivalrous as I can. I’ve never thought of
women as less than men. I honestly like most of them better than most men. I
don’t think they deserve <em>more</em> rights than men, I think we
should all be equal in every way. Does that make me sexist? I also reject the
idea that men can’t be sexually assaulted by women, or that in cases of drunken
sex on college campuses it’s always rape by the man even if both parties
accepted, even if the man is more drunk simply because his penis got hard. I
reject ideas like that. I think we’ve gotten too pc with sex. Now college kids
are supposed to actually sign consent forms before having sex. Hopefully it
doesn’t require a Notary. That’d be awkward.
Anyway, she just goes out of her way to be mean to me. She
tries to hurt me and succeeds almost every time. Just because I blow things off
doesn’t mean I don’t feel them. I’m hyper-emotional, if anything having Bipolar
Disorder, being on the Autism Spectrum, having ADHD, being OCD having Panic
Disorder, all things she’s made fun of in the past with comments like
“Bipolar Boy”. I do have emotions. My thought process might be fucked
up, but where’s my consideration? What, everyone else gets a free pass with
their issues, but I don’t deserve <em>any</em>? I also remember
<em>everything</em>. Every slight. Every insult. Every rude
comment. I <em>choose</em> to not dwell on them or make it a big issue
for most people. I’ve only ever written off one person in my life, a guy who
actually talked shit about my ex one day and that was it for me with him. I did
have one other guy friend ghost me for a girl he was dating, but he was kind of
stupid to begin with, and not the best friend. No big loss. But my ex tries to
find fault with literally everything I say or do. She called me condescending
for saying I have expensive taste in liquor now, well
<em>she’s</em> condescending for pretty much every single interaction
with me. If it’s not bragging about something, it’s putting me down for
everything. Like the day she said she doubted I could actually make as much as
I do with this job. Why, because I didn’t have to go to school for four years
to do it? It’s HARD work. Especially for me since I have to talk to people.
Having a 4.9 rating with over 4,500 trips in a year is pretty good. My delivery
rating is 100%. I’m good at this. Could I make more? Yeah, lots, but I’m lazy.
I admit that. But it’s not the job, it’s me holding me back. She hates my wife,
so she never has anything good to say on that front. Recently, both of us lost
a pet that was very close to us. Our “soulmates” as she put it.
<strong>Toby</strong> for her, <strong>Fluffer</strong>
for me. I tried to be there for her however I could. She tried to be there for
me on her terms. That’s how it’s different. I’ll give as much as I can that the
other person needs, she’ll give as much as she wants regardless of what the
other person needs. I remember when discussing a possible song lyric I was
thinking about to go with a tattoo she said something to the effect of not that
song, she didn’t like him. So? Imagine if I had said that about a lyric she’d
have been considering. It would’ve been a huge fight, and, honestly, I wouldn’t
say something like that. If a lyric makes you feel better, pick that lyric. Why
do I need to express I don’t like that group and suggest you pick something
else? Who’s it for then? And while I was always there for her when she was sad,
there were times when she was just distant when I was reaching out. It’s like
that with her: she’s fine asking for help but loathes giving it to me.
Why don’t I walk away, you ask? Ignore her forever? Because
she was such an important part of my life. Because I grew as a person because
of her. Because in a lot of ways she made me a better person. Because I think
she’s a good human being. But she’s really spiteful. She’ll hold grudges for
decades and refuse to let them go as if her anger is all that she is. I’m an
optimist, she’s a pessimist. So while she only sees the native things about me
(except when she needs me for something), I see the good in her, and am always
available. And who am I to write people off just because they’re rude? It’s
just hard sometimes because she should understand that labels and boxes are
bad. There are so many things about me she doesn’t now because she wasn’t ever
really interested in anything other than the surface, and that’s sad, because I
am quite deep. And I don’t really care if that last bit sounds conceited.
The problem is I let my Godaddy account expire and they’re holding my site backup hostage until I rejoin. Apparently I can join for one month and they’ll give me a copy of my most recent backup. It’s shitty, but it’s my fault for forgetting to download regular copies of the backup. I think their format might be somewhat proprietary, too. I haven’t figured that out yet. Most likely I’ll have to pay their ransom to get my latest copy back to upload here.
One and One, or however you want to spell it, has a HUGE learning curve. It’s not user-friendly at all. It’s going to take me a few days of exploring to figure it out and get writing again. I have to figure out all the plugins and see if I can access the back end so I can run scripts. Noting major, just a few things so I can monetize my youtube channel. You can look me up on there under adamcharles1972 or tip the driver, I think. Or here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy8b6Rwnr715G4R53n2S10w/videos?view_as=subscriber
Okay, this is a very sloppy backup of the site I had on Godaddy. For some reason my xml file isn’t uploading the right way, so for right now this is how I’m doing it: copy/paste.
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Got fired 😦
Posted on November 20, 2015 by acsmith1972
So far Grubhub hasn’t said why. They took me off the clock with no warning and when I called said they haven’t gotten around to letting me know via email why they fired me. Isn’t that nice. Bastards. Luckily I have a second job but it doesn’t pay nearly as much. The next few days are going to be stressful. I know I did my job better than most. My wife thinks they’re trying to save money so they’re looking for any excuse to fire people. I’ll appeal the decision to the arbitration process. They can come and present their case and let a mediator decide. Even if it’s a waste of time it is my right, may as well use it.
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I installed Windows 10
Posted on November 1, 2015 by acsmith1972
So I built this computer, like I have been doing for the last twenty years or so. I went to school for software and network design back in 2000. I used to do tech support at Subway world headquarters and also at a company called Dazzle for those of you who remember video break-out boxes to get video from camcorders to computers before USB took off. Anyway, the computer specs are this:
SiSoftware Sandra
ID
Host Name : RAIDEN
Workgroup : WORKGROUP
Computer
Model : OEM
Serial Number : To Be Fille
Chassis : Desktop
Mainboard : ASRock Z97 Killer
Serial Number : E80-4A0*
BIOS : AMI (OEM) P2.20 05/12/2015
Intel vPro : 9.01.25.1005
Total Memory : 16GB DIMM DDR3
Processors
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (4C 8T 4.5GHz, 4GHz IMC, 4x 256kB L2, 8MB L3)
Socket/Slot : FC LGA1150
Chipset
Memory Controller : ASRock Core (Haswell) DRAM Controller 100MHz, 2x 8GB DIMM DDR3 1.33GHz 128-bit
Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : G.Skill F3-1866C9-8GXM 8GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-14900U DDR3-1866 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : G.Skill F3-1866C9-8GXM 8GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-14900U DDR3-1866 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Video System
Monitor/Panel : ACI VS278
(1920×1080, 27.2″)
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (13CU 1664SP SM5.2 1.11GHz/1.46GHz, 1.8MB L2, 4GB 7GHz 256-bit, PCIe 3.00 x16)
Graphics Processor
CUDA GP Processor : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (1664SP 13C 1.11GHz/1.46GHz, 1.8MB L2, 4GB 6GHz/7GHz 256-bit)
OpenCL GP Processor : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (1664SP 13C 1.11GHz/1.46GHz, 208kB L2, 4GB 6GHz/7GHz 256-bit)
Compute Shader Processor : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (1664SP 13C 1.11GHz/1.46GHz, 1.8MB L2, 4GB 6GHz/7GHz 256-bit)
OpenGL Processor : GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2 (4GB)
Storage Devices
KINGSTON SH103S3120G (120GB, SATA600, SSD) : 112GB (C:)
Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER166 (3TB, SATA600, 3.5″, 7200rpm) : 3TB (A:)
Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER166 (3TB, SATA600, 3.5″, 7200rpm) : 3TB (B:)
WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2 (2TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, SED, 8MB Cache) : 2TB (D:)
HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 (SATA150, BD-RE, DVD+-RW, CD-RW) : N/A (E:)
DTSOFT BDROM (Virtual) : N/A (G:)
Logical Storage Devices
System Reserved : 350MB (NTFS, 4kB) @ KINGSTON SH103S3120G (120GB, SATA600, SSD)
Movies (A:) : 3TB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER166 (3TB, SATA600, 3.5″, 7200rpm)
Programs (B:) : 3TB (NTFS, 4kB) @ Seagate ST3000DM001-1ER166 (3TB, SATA600, 3.5″, 7200rpm)
Big Pappa (D:) : 2TB (NTFS, 4kB) @ WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S2 (2TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, SED, 8MB Cache)
Windows (C:) : 111GB (NTFS, 4kB) @ KINGSTON SH103S3120G (120GB, SATA600, SSD)
Hard Disk : 450MB (NTFS, 4kB) @ KINGSTON SH103S3120G (120GB, SATA600, SSD)
Optical Drive (E:) : N/A @ HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 (SATA150, BD-RE, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Optical Drive (G:) : N/A @ DTSOFT BDROM (Virtual)
Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1 : ASRock 9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC Controller
Audio Device : MSI GM204 High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec : nVidia nForce4 Intel Edition CPU to PCI Bridge
Audio Device : Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer FATAL1TY PRO
Serial Port(s) : 1
Disk Controller : ASRock 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
USB Controller 1 : ASRock 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller
USB Controller 2 : ASRock 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2
USB Controller 3 : ASRock 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1
SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : Intel ICH SMBus
Printers and Faxes
Printer : Send to Microsoft OneNote 16 Driver (1200×1200, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer v4 (600×600, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft Print To PDF (600×600, Colour)
Printer : HP Deskjet 3510 series (600×300, Colour)
Printer : Foxit Reader PDF Printer Driver (2400×2400, Colour)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200×200)
Printer : HP Deskjet 3510 series (600×300, Colour)
Scanners and Cameras
Scanner : Hewlett-Packard HP Deskjet 3510 series (NET) (Scanner, USB)
Scanner : Microsoft computer (HP Deskjet 3510 series) (Scanner, USB)
Sensors
Location : Microsoft Visual Studio Location Simulator Sensor (Location, Unknown)
Peripherals
Media Player : WD My Passport 0820 (1.82TB)
Network Services
Network Adapter : Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) (Ethernet)
Network Adapter : Killer e2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30) (Ethernet)
Network Adapter : TeamViewer VPN Adapter (Ethernet)
Network Adapter : TAP-Windows Adapter V9 (Ethernet)
Wireless Adapter : Qualcomm Atheros AR9271 Wireless Network Adapter (802.11n (HT), AES-CCMP, 72.2Mbps)
Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 10.00.10240
Platform Compliance : x64
—–So to continue, I had it with Windows 8.1, which I actually liked. I kept it on 8 mostly for Skyrim, the Elder Scrolls. I gave in yesterday and upgraded. I like Windows 10. I haven’t tried Skyrim yet to make sure it still works, but hopefully it does. I have the tweaks to add to make it work just in case. I used to game heavily. My favorite game is probably still Enemy Territory. I remember the original Castle Wlf from back in the 80s. I loved that one and while I’ve played the most recent one that came out last year, ET is online, and it’s just fun. I used to play UT3 a lot but they have server issues. I still play lots of fps like Fallout, Crysis, etc, but lately it’s been Skyrim. Still, I got to like level 65 and it’s starting to get boring. I have The Witcher. It came with my video card, but it’s a little campy. I don’t know, maybe I just need to give it a chance. So far I like Windows 10.
As for the delivery thing, I took Haloween off. And tomorrow. I was supposed to go to a party but it turned out no one was going so it’s just a quit night with the wife at home watching South Park and relaxing. Tomorrow might be a drinking day. I don’t know, I really doubt it. I seem to be over the whole drinking, getting high part of my life. I have beer in the fridge that’s been there for about 6 months now. I have enough liquor to drown a horse. Our lives are just so busy right now neither one of us have bothered. We keep buying more bottles of wine and just letting them sit there. We have to move in a month or two. We have to go to the housing court next Wednesday to fight the eviction. We’ll most likely get another month or two, then it’s out of here. I wish we could stay but the bank is renovating the house to flip it and doesn’t want to sell it with tenants. The upshot is we haven’t paid rent since March so we’ve had lots of money for other stuff. Like the Rav4 I bought =)
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I feel fuzzy
Posted on October 26, 2015 by acsmith1972
Apparently, I have another abscess. Teeth and me don’t get along. I need to take care of them if I want the ones that are left to last. I’ve had three extractions not counting wisdom teeth. I have one that mostly broke and has to be removed, and another with a big chip that probably needs a root canal and crown. So I was in really bad pain last night, so I took a Percocet and a muscle relaxer. But that was just recently. I have to work at 5. Tonight isn’t going to be very fun. I might call out sick, I don’t know yet. It hurts that bad.
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Today was a really long day
Posted on October 24, 2015 by acsmith1972
So, I normally work 12 hour days, no big deal, but today I get there half an hour late, which didn’t matter since I picked 12 1/2 hour shifts the next few days, and I stopped in the town right before where we station out of. There’s one restaurant there so I think I’m being clever. If I stay there I’ll only get dispatched those orders. It usually works out to a day of not having to do very much. Not today. Soon as I get there I get a delivery all the way across to the next town. So I go an pick it up and then I get another delivery, then another. Mind you, I hadn’t even had time to pick up the first delivery yet. So I called and they said the other two drivers are in a different town. Other two? Usually Friday we have ten. I look a the schedule and they have three drivers on from 11-2 and two for 2-5. 5 for 5-9, and 9 for 9-11:30 which makes no sense at all. So I call back and apparently what happened was they rejected too many deliveries and 5 drivers got suspended. 2 other drivers quit so we’re down 7 drivers. This is in an area covering 6 towns and about 250,000 people. For 3 drivers on the busiest block on the busiest day of the week. I almost quit. I shit you not I was so stressed running all over the place. Tomorrow doesn’t look much better. A little bit. Sunday looks fine, they scheduled enough people and next week I’m only doing nights, but I’m doing the other delivery service at the same time. That should be fun.
I didn’t schedule myself for Halloween so I can sleep late, binge watch scary movies all day, then go to a party with the wifey. And Sunday after Halloween I have off so I can recuperate in case I had too much to drink. Meanwhile, it looks like we may have won our eviction, the other party withdrew the action. If you recall our landlord didn’t pay the mortgage for 6 years and got foreclosed on so we all got eviction notices. i fought it and the other side withdrew the complaint. Three months later. They might be making a cash offer to move or maybe they’ll sell the house as is with tenants in it. We kind of hate our roommate so we’re hoping for the cash offer to go. AND we may have won our lawsuit about my wife’s Beetle these scumbags in New Jersey sold us. The lawyer called today and said he talked to the other side’s lawyer and thinks they’ll settle for $3750. It’s a loss of some money for us, but it’s a net gain counting what we paid for the car and towing fees when the tranny blew. And Chase honored a cash offer and is depositing $300 in my account in the next few days (I was a day late with the offer opening a new account). So all in all this week rocks!
Happy Halloween and stay safe if I don’t write again before that. I’ll try. I mean to do it every day but every day I get home and I’m like “I’ll do it tomorrow”. 6 years after taking all my notes to write my book I still haven’t really started that. lol
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Six days….sorry!!!
Posted on October 12, 2015 by acsmith1972
I don’t really feel like posting right now. It’s 3:12am, I’m tired, watching Family Guy and eating bad Campbell’s something or other chili. I just wanted to acknowledge I know it’s been 6 days. I’ll try to add a real post tomorrow during the day if I get a chance between deliveries, looking at porn, and watching tv shows. You know, i brought a book, about 10 magazines, and I have writing to do, you’d think i could do that. Nope.
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Got a new (used) car =)
Posted on October 1, 2015 by acsmith1972
I wanted this version for a long time =)
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Crazy awesome BRIGHT Cree flashlight.
Posted on September 28, 2015 by acsmith1972
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It wasn’t the starter
Posted on September 27, 2015 by acsmith1972
AAA came out and was going to tow me but the driver jumped the car first and it started right up. He tested it and said it wasn’t the starter, it was the battery and they could bring a new one for $128. Umm, yeah, that beats $350 to Pep Boys any day of the week. Pep Boys probably would’ve done both, and charged me like $500. Thanks AAA! =)
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Two posts in one day! My starter’s shot (apparently)
Posted on September 27, 2015 by acsmith1972
I just had the tcm/pcm update done by Ford two days ago and I noticed the car’s acting weird. Like they neutered it. I google it, some forums say it has to relearn how to drive. Really? So cars are getting dumber? I swear I’m dyslexic with my thinking. I’m blasting Creed, looking at like three different pages on Amazon, and typing this. But i digress. Anyway, so I’m parked today and I get a low battery warning. I try to start the car and it won’t so I’m like “Fuck!”. So I shut everything off, wait a few minutes and try again. I give it a lot of gas while doing it and it hastily starts up. I drive to Advanced Auto Parts and have them test the battery, which they say is fine. Then they test the starter and alternator. The latter is a little off, but the starter’s only reading half what it should. So later today I’m off to Pep Boys to have them fix it. $350, but they’re the only ones open fr that sort of thing Sunday. It’s probably beyond my skill level for a first attempt at a real repair, and I lose around $140 every day I don’t work. I can’t wait for an appointment anywhere else. So that’s my today later on in about 7 hours. The upshot is I get the day off =)
Not much else happened today. It was slooooooow. One delivery. One of these days I’ll go through all your comments and reply, just not today, I’m too tired.
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I think I need a dentist…..
Posted on September 26, 2015 by acsmith1972
I should’ve listened to my mom growing up: brush your teeth after every meal, when you wake up, before you go to bed, but what they fail to tell you is once you fuck it up it’s too late. I have like 15 filling. Three teeth have been pulled. I have another that should’ve had a root canal and crown that mostly broke and fell out, I have a tooth that’s chipped in half, two teeth have a small chip and God knows how many cavities I have. And even if I fix all that, get implants, bridges, etc, I need them bleached, too. Not good. My insurance will cover the fillings, possibly another root canal and crown, and the extraction, but that’s about it. The implants I’ll have to pay for and those are like $2,000 each. I might be able to get a partial or bridge, but those cost a lot, too. But this job has kept me so busy lately.
I got so tired doing this I sat down on my couch for a minute and now it’s 9 hours later, i.e. I passed out. Sleepy. Shower time. Maybe I’ll do another post from my car.
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Remembering to do this is hard.
Posted on September 12, 2015 by acsmith1972
A few years ago when I first bought this domain I had every intention of blogging every day, multiple times a day. Because there are SO many examples throughout the average service worker’s day that need to be blogged about. Like tonight, dispatch got cranky with me waiting for the second delivery where I was picking up, but the restaurant said 5 minutes for the next one. Why not wait? It saves time with not having to go back, park again: anyone who’s done this for a while knows how orders need to go to save time. Single runs when you can do doubles or more make no sense. Even if they’re going in different areas having them in the car saves time. It was dead tonight. I thought it was going to be busy, I had one from each service as soon as 5pm rolled around. Then at 6 I had two more. Then at 7,8, 9, 10, and 11 I had nothing so I headed back home. I did get to see the movie The Loft while I waited. Hated it. It was too contrived for me. I hate when they overthink stuff.
Traffic tonight was SUPER on the highway going back. Sometimes I use Google maps and sometimes I use Waze. Google maps said 34 minutes to home. Waze said 45, but only 25 if it let me route off the highway and back on again after the traffic jam. So I did that. Wow, this week’s been pretty boring. I work, I come home, sometimes I blog, sometimes I play a game. I’m still working on Skyrim: The Elder Scrolls. I’m level 62 now I think. I have pretty much everything but have a few places left to explore and eventually the Ebony Warrior. That should be fun. Maybe I’ll play that tonight. Kinda hungry, though. Burger first, then the game. Or maybe tv if there’s anything at all to download. I don’t know when the fall season starts but this last week has been shit for tv.
Happy post 9-11. I hope everyone was safe and managed to make a bad day a good day.
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Things I hate
Posted on September 7, 2015 by acsmith1972
I’ll try to keep this to types of drivers I hate. Or related to delivery. There are plenty of people who just rub me the wrong way, though.
People who slow down on the green light, get even slower for the yellow, then floor it through the red light.
People who get all the way to the left to turn right, or all the way to the right to turn left blocking you from going around them.
People who cut over 4 lanes, cutting you off in the process to take an exit when no one was behind you.
People reading books or playing on the phones when they should be driving. The book thing is stupid, always. The phone, if you’re a good driver like some of us who are on the road a lot, you might be able to check a quick message but it’s not a good idea. Pull over and do it.
The jerks who get in the fast lane to do 71 because the people in the middle are only doing 70. An usually when they see a spot open up in the middle lane they speed up to block you from changing lanes. These people will also have a bad habit of letting everyone merge in front of them, but won’t let you around them.
People who ride the brakes. Stay home if you’re that scared.
People who don’t use blinkers who’ll just stop middle of a road for no apparent reason.
People who use the blinker, but do it after they started turning.
People who drive slow cars like Priuses at 100mph to pretend they’re fast.
People who buy fast cars like Ferraris then drive them slow.
Monster trucks with smoke stacks and American flags flying. This is really about the guy having a tiny penis. Mine being 9 inches long and thick, I can drive a Prius if I want.
Cheap paint jobs. I just saw a brand new $60,000 Mercedes with Maaco one coat no clear-coat orange paint job yesterday. It was sad.
Honkers. If I’m stuck behind traffic that isn’t moving and you’re honking what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
People who tailgate you and follow you even as you switch lanes to keep tailgaiting you. My solution is take your foot off the gas. If they’re willing to come to a complete stop with you and won’t change lanes find a police officer quickly.
High beams. Not only will I turn on mine at you but I have 3,000 lumen cree lights. You sure you want to go there? Low and high equals 12,000 lumens of cree blinding you.
That’s pretty much it for now. I have to work tonight from 5-11. I have the same schedule all week because I screwed up again and forgot to schedule better hours. But I have 30 hours during the week and 24 on the weekend so with my bonus I should still make $700 plus whatever I get at the other job. Maybe someone will drop a shift and I can take that. Oh well, ttyl =)
Oh, and Happy Labor Day if you live here. Take the day off. You deserve it!
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I had a Migraine today
Posted on September 2, 2015 by acsmith1972
I say today but I mean yesterday, as in Tuesday. Monday was slow, Tuesday was slow, I’m hoping today (Wednesday) picks up. My wife’s coming with me to keep me company. We can go find something to do till I get a delivery. Maybe a little shopping or apartment hunting. I don’t have any great stories from the last two days and I’m too tired to rant so I’ll do more tonight.
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Tonight was brutal (past tense, Sunday night)
Posted on August 31, 2015 by acsmith1972
I was going to eat another piece of the Reaper pepper, but decided not to. I’m giving myself a day between torture. Anyway, the other second job wound up sending me eight calls while I was sitting for the main job. It screwed me up twice because job number two has more restaurants and delivers much further. I managed to make it out of it okay, but I was worried. Also, I didn’t have to wake up till 3 since I couldn’t get the morning shift, so I forgot to schedule myself for good hours, so week after next I only managed to snag 50 hours. I can cover it with the other job, but I’d much rather have sit there and do nothing hours in the morning that I’m getting paid for. I’m so beat in the morning. Like right now I should be sleeping. I have to be up by ten to bring my wife to work then head out to Stamford myself to work. This week is a 12 hour a day Monday through Saturday. And I have Sunday from 5-11. PLUS I have the other job all week from 5-10. The following week, Labor Day week is the week my hours got screwed up because I wasn’t paying attention. Hopefully they’ll be some drop requests during the week and I can pick up some other people’s hours.
So anyway, I just wanted to check in. I’m getting better at doing this when I pay attention. I’m gonna go have a smoke, check some last emails, then climb into bed for a few hours =)
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My first experience having both jobs mess me up
Posted on August 30, 2015 by acsmith1972
I’d just come back from a delivery when I got another order. So I head out, and this one is to the West side of town and wouldn’t you know it, right then the other delivery service send me an order but it’s from the center of town. The problem is I was already in the lane for going left to the other one. So drove to that one (10 minutes away) then to the other pick-up, then to the first delivery, then the second. But the second one I didn’t look closely at the street and went to the wrong road. So I added ten minutes to my time. What I should’ve done was picked up the second one first, then gotten the first one, then delivered the second one then the first one. I don’t know, the deliveries were in opposite areas, too. One was South and one was in the middle of the town. I made a mistake adding the second job at night. I should’ve done it during the day when the one that pays by the hour is slower. I have this week coming up to deal with then I’ll probably just do deliveries during the day for the second place. The idea was just to add a little extra money, not mess up my averages with the main job. The second job adds between $30 and $100 a day depending how busy it is. My target was an extra $50. That puts me at around $1200 a week. Not a bad living for delivering food, right? Mind you, my wife works, too, so we have her income as well. That ads another few hundred to the pot every week, so between our two jobs we’re middle class. lol
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Because they can’t all be about delivering, this one’s about Reaper peppers.
Posted on August 30, 2015 by acsmith1972
Okay, so I just took a bite about half the size of a pea of a Reaper pepper. It started out okay, “Mmm, a little spicy. Shit! My mouth is on fire! Milk! Milk! Miiiiiiiiiiiiilk!” lol. I danced between the kitchen and the bedroom alternating between milk and juice. That is easily the hottest food I have ever tried. It was a VERY interesting feeling feeling like my mouth was full of lava (minus the part where everything melts and actually burns). But, hey, guess what. I liked it. lol. It’s going to be my end of work ritual for a little while, come home, eat part of a Reaper pepper. Maybe eventually whole one.My wife witnessed the whole thing. She should’ve recorded the whole thing. She said so after she saw me running around like I was literally on fire. lol. The flavor is 99% gone. I’m tempted to go take another bite tonight. I haven’t even gotten to the seeds yet. That’s going to be an uncomfortable bite, when I get to the stem. And this Reaper is a baby Reaper. It’s probably the size of a grape. I have others that are closer to the size of a walnut. I froze those. I’m going to get a food dehydrator and dry them so I can store them longer and I’ll probably order more. I’m thinking of doing a “Reaper Challenge” where I video people eating them for money. Like $20 says you can’t eat the whole thing, chewed and swallowed. I know most people MIGHT be able to do a Habanero like that. I know I can from years of eating them, but Reapers are like 5 times hotter. They’re literally 1,000 times spicier than a Jalapeno if that helps you imagine. These things are just below police pepper spray and the guys growing them are always trying to make them hotter and hotter. I love it. I found my favorite food. Move over Ghost Peppers. Ghost Peppers are lovely, too. I’ve never tried them raw, but I have several Ghost Pepper hot sauces I use in chili.
Anyhoo, Ill follow this up with a proper delivery post.
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My first check: cha-ching! $$$$
Posted on August 27, 2015 by acsmith1972
Okay, I don’t want to get too cocky about my first check with the new company, but I will anyway. $880. Mind you, it’s slow right now for this company and this is a new market they’re developing, but they’re a Billion dollar company that has successfully penetrated this market in dozens of cities. I’m grateful they decided to pick Stamford, CT as one of their target locations. So, it’s slow, and I haven’t had to do much for that money but sit and wait. LOTS of down time. I don’t want to be sitting there and jump when the app lets me know there’s a delivery, but that’s the way it’s been for week one. Drivers make money from doing deliveries. It’d be like paying a waitress minimum wage but not having any customers. Sure in a good state they’d easily be able to pay bills but they’d get anxious for that door to open. The way they have it set up is they take a percentage from the restaurant, and I know the numbers but I’m not going to say because it’s probably in my contract somewhere not to. So they get that, then they charge a delivery fee, from which we get part of it, and we also get mileage. The IRS rate. But it’s from the restaurant to the delivery, not between restaurants or return trips. So ideally what you’d want to do is park near each delivery, but the problem with that is the next one could be the same place you came from, then you have to go all the way back. I have a favorite spot in the center of town I use.
I’m really digging this make my own schedule thing, too. My wife wanted to spend the day with me so I took today off. Yeah, married. Sorry girls! lol. I’ll post a picture of us at the end of this post. The picture’s from two years ago at around Christmas time. My wife edited the pic with cute hearts, but I like it, it’s one of my favorite pics of us. Just checked, can’t find the edited hearts version so you get the regular one, lol. So, tomorrow I work 11-11, Friday 11-11, Saturday 5-11, Sunday 5-11. I would’ve taken all day Saturday but someone took the mid-day shift (2-5) and I won’t sit out there for free. Plus, the following week I have 11-11 Mon-Sat and that Sunday I have 5-11 so it’s a long week. I’m taking Labor Day off. And Halloween, possibly two days for that, my favorite holiday. Obviously turkey day I’ll take off, and Christmas I might take the whole week off. I don’t know. Christmas Eve and Christmas day are nice to have off and my birthday’s two days later, then New Year’s is 4 days after that. I don’t know. Maybe the 24th, 25th, 27th, 31st, and 1st. And I like that I can do that. Obviously if they’re short and I get a work request I’ll cover a shift, but if not I’ll probably take those days off.
Right now my wife and I are desperately trying to find an apartment near us to move to. We have to be out probably in a month or two at the latest. We’ve started looking hard but everyone’s about those credit scores and ours aren’t stellar. So plan B will be to maybe offer more rent, assuming we can come up with more. It’s 3:30am right now. I should be in bed. I have to be up at 10. I need to set my alarms. Three regular little alarm clocks, the cheap ones you get at Ikea that tell time and have a bell alarm, and then I set my cell phone with 5 alarms and put it away from me so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off. Yeah, I sleep like that. Because I stay up so late. I’m just always finding something else to do, like this! =)
I should post a picture of our cats, too. Fluffer and Luna. Fluffer’s the 22lb ball of chubby love. Luna’s the one who likes to take shower and meows all day.
And here’s that picture of the wife and me I promised:
Here’s a more recent one that’s not silly:
There. There are a few more cute pics. Okay, it’s late, going to bed. Night all. Stay safe!
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I got a new job! This one is Sweeeeet!
Posted on August 20, 2015 by acsmith1972
First of all, I can’t say who it’s for, there’s probably something in my contract about it, but it’s one of the biggest ordering sites in the country. Basically I’m an independent contractor like an Uber driver. I get paid a per delivery fee, mileage, and tips. Or a base if the tips don’t go above $11. Right now it’s dead where I am so I’m getting paid to be on call all day. I’m hopeful it gets busy because I’m doing it in Fairfield County and there’s tons of money there. If they get real volume I figure I could average around 36 deliveries a day with an average of $5 a delivery. With the delivery fee that’d be about $200 for 12 hours plus mileage. And they let you sign up for as many days as you want so i can do it 7 days a week like I am right now. It’s nice being an I.C. No boss. I’m quick, and I love doing this sort of work anyway. The secret to good tips i great customer service. Give them that a few times and they’ll remember and the tips will go up. Being quick helps, too. Not stupid quick like getting tickets or causing accidents, but being safe and getting the orders out in a timely manner.
The only bad side I can see is sometimes you want a day off and you might not have planned ahead. I see people trying to drop shifts in the app all the time. But the upside to that is you make your own schedule. Work as little or as much as you want. I’m trying to move in about two months with my wife and we need lots of money (donate…)(paypal button…)(shameless plug). We found a great place we’re going to look at tomorrow, but it’s $1695 for a two-bedroom out here. And we’re in Bridgeport. It should be cheaper but it’s really nice and we really hope we get approved. So if we do we’ll need lots of cash to make it work. So I’m going to work 7 days a week for as long as I can. We also need to get a second car so my wife can drive to work instead of relying on rides and buses. We work vastly different hours so I can’t always bring her or get her. Right now we live within walking distance to her job but that sucks for her in this summer heat. It’s not fair and I want her to have a car, too.
Other than that, I don’t have any horror stories to tell with this post. Except that my a/c in the car died today. Yup, hot air in 90 degree weather, and CT is crazy humid in the summer. Winter, too for that matter. So tomorrow I have to see if Valvoline or somewhere else can fix it. That’s gonna wipe out what we have in the bank right now. Next week’s check will be better.
Anyway, I have to be up at 9 to go look at the place so I’m signing off for now =) Stay safe out there!
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Sorry! Site was offline due to excessive laziness.
Posted on July 23, 2015 by acsmith1972
So the way I had my site hosted was free with Godaddy from having a bunch of registered websites. I let one of those websites expire, because, frankly the name was stupid and I didn’t see myself ever using it. What I didn’t realize was it was tied to my free hosting. The email about the hosting expiring went to my spam box for some reason and the site went down. Fortunately I have a recent backup, which is how we’re back and haven’t missed a beat =) I was going to host with someone else, but you know what? I know Godaddy and I actually like their service. So when I decided to do this today I started out thinking Bluehost, but guess what: they censor. There are other options out there, but these guys have a really good reputation and they have hosted my pages in the past with little to no issue.
On the delivery front, I was working for a place called Pappa’s Pizza in Stamford, CT. The woman I worked for was a miserable person. She insulted everyone. I’m not sure if it’s because she’s Greek or just miserable but all she did all day was complain. All day. 12 hours all day telling people how stupid they were. She hired a part-time driver who I gave my Mondays to. That girl then got fired and the following Monday this woman called me to see where I was. I told her it’s not my day any more and she said it’s my responsibility to cover other drivers if they get fired. That was news to me. I told her I didn’t have the car that day, my wife had it and she said “Well then I don’t need you either” and fired me, too. After three months. In those three months a few people came and went. She had people show up late or high or blow off work and did she fire them? Nope. The good workers always get canned the easiest. That’s why I always tell people not to go above and beyond. You’ll regret it. She’s since had ads a few times looking for drivers. I was one of the few people willing to deal with her bullshit.
Anyway, then I got a job for a place called Silver Spoon, which is a delivery service. They don’t pay by the hour, but you get a delivery fee and mandatory 15% gratuity. Unless people order through something like Grubhub. Then you could wind up with nothing but the delivery fee. That’s like $3.99 but the service takes 50% of that. I averaged between $4 and $7 an hour if I was lucky. So I quit doing that a month ago and now I’m gainfully unemployed. That service is a bad model. If you do it and don’t sign a non-compete you can maybe do your own service. I think I can come up with a better model if I find places willing to give me a shot. They charged the restaurant around 11% which kills the profit, then $3.99 to the customer plus the 15%. I’d go with maybe 5% to the restaurant so they still profit, and keep the $3.99 and 15% numbers. The minimum would be the same $20. This way every delivery would be at least $8. Do 20 of those in a day and you pay rent =)
It would be more structured to find another place to work for, though. I still want to do my own pizza place. I’m sorry this is so flat. The affect, I mean. It’s hot as hell in my apartment. I’ll write more later.
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I finished my book notes! You know, the book I’m working on writing that this site is for?
Posted on September 14, 2012 by acsmith1972
Every day I’d say to myself “Work on the website, work on the book.” The website refers to two different ideas for making money for right now, walking dogs, and doing computer repair. I’m highly skilled in both areas and would be 100% happy doing either. Anyhoo, the book, obviously, is this site’s future. The stories on this site actually probably wont be in the book at all. Maybe one or two, I haven’t decided yet. I’m not sure how I’d tie it all in, but then again, maybe =) So the notes part took me what, a few years? I can’t remember when I started this site, but that’s when the notes started. I just finished last night. I have the outline done. I have all the chapters set up how I want to write them. I have the index, the prologue, the epilogue, the appendix, etc, etc. I just need to sit down every day and do a little more. My goal is to have the book finished by Halloween. I’m guessing it will be around 300 pages. I could probably make it 1,000 pages, but I wont, I’ll hold back. Plus, that’s material for a second book if I get the first one published. The editing part is going to be a bitch. I might just give the book to a friend of mine so she can edit it. I’ll copyright it first, of course, just in case it gets lost or gets out somehow.
Everyone give me major pats on the back. As someone who deals with being both Bi-polar, OCD, and having ADHD among other things, actually doing the writing is a major step forward. I’d actually love nothing more than to pay my rent ahead 6 months and just sit here and get it done, but I don’t have 6 months rent. lol. Oh well, hopefully if I get it published I will have 6 months rent. And a shitload more =)
P.S. Here’s my playlist for what I’m listening to while I write:
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Bye Kitty 😦
Posted on October 21, 2011 by acsmith1972
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2010 in review
Posted on January 2, 2011 by acsmith1972
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
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Why I think Avatar will suck.
Posted on November 26, 2009 by acsmith1972
I’m going to watch it when I get a better copy of it, but what’s kept me from watching it or going to see it so far has been all the criticism about the race thing, or how it’s being compared to every other movie. I read a review today that said it was like The Last Samurai or Dances With Wolves, just substitute space ships, etc. Yet another review compared it to Lord of the Rings which allegedly makes the point that only White is right. That’s actually getting to be a tired subject. Why can’t White people be the heroes of the movie? In Lord of the Rings the “White” heroes were like 3 feet tall. And as I recall in Middle Earth pretty much every race was White, including the Elves.
I mean when Spike Lee makes movies who usually turns out to be the heroes of those movies? Everyone drawing comparisons even from movies like Star Trek just gets a little tired. “The Romulans are obviously the Puerto Ricans, the Klingons are Obviously the Blacks.” Really? I get tired of it. I’ll give movie critics one point for Jar Jar Binks for him saying Mesa all the time. I guess it is a little close to Masa, but I in no way agree with things like the Chasing Amy argument that Vader was the baddest brother in the universe and when he dies you find out he’s a crusty old White man suggesting all Blacks secretly want to be White. That’s just reaching too much for me.
I think all the sensitive people should just stay home. I mean how many years have we had South Park and Family Guy poking fun at everything from the Holocaust to slavery to Scientology? I hear lots of criticism for those shows, but the simple solution eludes most people: don’t watch. I haven’t seen a show on tv yet that I find so offensive that I feel the need to change the channel. There are a few shows that are just plain stupid to me, like Jackass. I mean I could make the argument that the Jackass movies make the point that all White people are stupid White trash, and had the movies not been produced by stupid (but rich) White trash, I’d have a good argument. I just think people are too critical about this stuff.
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I quit working at the pizza place I was working t in Trumbull. Now I’m doing ridesharing. Yaaaaay! The pay is much better, but it’s really hard to be disciplined, and it’s hard dealing with drunks and ungrateful people all the time. The stupid score we have to maintain is just nuts. College students and drunks think four stars is a good rating, but what they don’t realize is four stars is low enough to get you fired. You need above a 4.6 or you get deactivated. Every time I take college students I regret it. I started out a 4.86 tonight and now I’m back to 4.83 because of asshole college students who want to feel powerful. And that power comes at the price of people’s jobs, and longer wait times for them. It’s stupid. They pay a third of what they would with a taxi and should be grateful, but are entitled assholes instead. The safest time to do the job is early in the day, like 5am-2pm. You can get all the same volume, all the same distances, with none of the shitty ratings. It’s amazing these companies don’t realize they’re penalizing drivers for making them money late at night.
I had my site hosted on GoDaddy for years, but they changed the pricing and I had some other issues with them, so I switched to 1and1. I had a lot more site traffic before I did that, so I’m not sure if that was a bad move. I’m much better with Dreamweaver and Flash doing html sites, but I’m learning WordPress really, really slowly.
Anyway, this is just a blog of my years of driving for various restaurants and the experiences I’ve had along the way. Currently, I’m working for Uber. ]]>
Yeah, been doing that since July. I had to quit that pizza place, working 50 hours a week to make $500 is just nuts. Then you deduct gas and everything else and it’s like “what the hell am I thinking?”. Granted, if you’re at a really busy restaurant it’s not a bad gig. You can make $200 a day if you work all day. But I can make that in 4 hours now, so why work the extra 8 hours doing that nonsense?
So Thanksgiving Eve I made some mistakes. I took a few surging at 2.2 when I was in an area surging at 5.5 because I’m way too quick to hit the accept button. I need to focus more. I also need to learn to sleep more so I don’t get tired while I’m out. And I have bad habits like playing with my tablet while I’m in the car. I need to learn to drive. When I do drive it’s much easier to focus and the day goes by quick. I meet a lot of cool people doing this job. Anyway, I was really just editing some script on here, so I’ll try to remember to post tomorrow.
I had planned to do this on a regular basis. I wanted to do daily posts. I’m forever arguing with people online in blogs, forums, and on Facebook and Twitter, so it seemed only natural to post here every day, as well. But, for some reason, I never do. I’ve been driving for Uber since last July. Normally, that keeps me busy for about 12 hours a day, although, lately, I’ve been really lazy with the job. I’m also registered to work for DoorDash, Postmates, Caviar, and Instacart. I only do DoorDash on occasion, because the others rae better suited for workin in NYC, and I don’t feel like driving down there for that. Instacart is here in CT, also,
Yeah, been doing that since July. I had to quit that pizza place, working 50 hours a week to make $500 is just nuts. Then you deduct gas and everything else and it’s like “what the hell am I thinking?”. Granted, if you’re at a really busy restaurant it’s not a bad gig. You can make $200 a day if you work all day. But I can make that in 4 hours now, so why work the extra 8 hours doing that nonsense?
So Thanksgiving Eve I made some mistakes. I took a few surging at 2.2 when I was in an area surging at 5.5 because I’m way too quick to hit the accept button. I need to focus more. I also need to learn to sleep more so I don’t get tired while I’m out. And I have bad habits like playing with my tablet while I’m in the car. I need to learn to drive. When I do drive it’s much easier to focus and the day goes by quick. I meet a lot of cool people doing this job. Anyway, I was really just editing some script on here, so I’ll try to remember to post tomorrow.
I quit working at the pizza place I was working t in Trumbull. Now I’m doing ridesharing. Yaaaaay! The pay is much better, but it’s really hard to be disciplined, and it’s hard dealing with drunks and ungrateful people all the time. The stupid score we have to maintain is just nuts. College students and drunks think four stars is a good rating, but what they don’t realize is four stars is low enough to get you fired. You need above a 4.6 or you get deactivated. Every time I take college students I regret it. I started out a 4.86 tonight and now I’m back to 4.83 because of asshole college students who want to feel powerful. And that power comes at the price of people’s jobs, and longer wait times for them. It’s stupid. They pay a third of what they would with a taxi and should be grateful, but are entitled assholes instead. The safest time to do the job is early in the day, like 5am-2pm. You can get all the same volume, all the same distances, with none of the shitty ratings. It’s amazing these companies don’t realize they’re penalizing drivers for making them money late at night.
"30 Minutes Or Less" and other pizza delivery nightmares 