Love My Driving Job

I love this driving job nearly everyday.    Yesterday was a great example of one drive after another of great experiences one after another.  Either entertaining or great networking with people.   People from all over the world all week long.   Can't say I have enjoyed an income source as much next to my Pyrography.    So many stories yesterday were great.

Yesterday

Had a pick up where guy texted me to say I was picking up his sister at address given.    Pulled right up front of address.   A disheveled women came out.   Her big hair going all which way, a beaten t-shirt, and shorts much too tight and too short for a woman her size.   She shot me a dirty look and went back in after throwing out the garbage bags she carried.  

I sat for a bit and a girl came scurrying across the yard from behind the house.   Her bright blue streaked hair and backpack attempting to keep up with her run.  She jumps in kind of ducks down.   I soon learned she over slept and missed the bus.   Her mother never realized it.   She called her brother to get Uber.   She ran out back door when mother took out trash.  

Ah, to be young and in highschool.   Brother was a good dude to call her a ride.

Etsy is completed and up.

So, yesterday started out slow and ended slow.  No driving, but putting together the Etsy site has taken some time.  Today I will continue work on it and attempt to get a bunch more posted, then tomorrow will be back to driving.

Esty listing

Set up Esty page today.   Plan to get some listings on there by the end of the today.

I'd like to take a moment and do a walk-through of a really large project I recently did.

I started out with a large 26" x 34" nice piece of Ash plywood.

I used a image projector in a dark room to project the image I wanted onto the board and rough outlined it in pencil.  Then I sat down with the burner and did the outline of the image.

Then I took and began to widen the border and begin filling it in.

 From there I just followed what would be the contour of the horse and rider to give the image some flow.

Because the board was not wide enough, I added a baseboard molding that looked like rope to make it the width I needed.

 From there I attached it to the gun rack to give the rack a cool looking backdrop instead of the open back that the rack had before.

 The project actually took sometime to complete, but it turned out pretty well.  Gave me some great idea's and a beginning to doing larger pieces.

2017 Driving

I drove New Years Eve Day from 4am to 7:30ish.  Yesterday and the day before were good days for business.  Long days, but worth it.  Don't deal with the night time surge for drunks.  Just don't have it in me to jeopardize my vehicle.  Back out this morning at about 5:30 am to cash in on the aftermath and get people back to where they belong.

A lot of "I'm not sure where I am, who I went home with or I really never should have drank that last drink".   The "I don't know where I am for sure, GPS says I am here, but I know where I need to be", folks were thick this morning.  

No longer do we refer to the walk of shame, it is now the Uber of Shame.  Pretty funny stuff.  Yesterday morning started off with observing a guy passed out with his foot on the brake at the local McDonalds.  It wasn't even open yet and the staff could not wake him.  Finally a big cook came out and shook the car hard.  The cook saw me sitting in the lot across the way and through up his hands in dismay.  I pulled over there.  The guy came too, drove the next window after he was told they were closed.  Stopped, foot on brake and passed out again.  He came too and drove off for the main road.  He had no business driving, I followed him to the next stop light where he came to rest at a concrete divider separating the go straight lane from the right turn lane.  Passed out yet again with foot on brake.  I called 911.   Cop must have been really close cause he pulled up in short order.  Before it was done there were like 5 local cops and a State Trooper.  Dude went to jail.

A couple of rides later was to the county jail to pick up a guy that had been arrested for DUI.  He told me that he usually uses Uber/Lyft, but he picked up a girl and wanted to impress her and drive her to his house.  Instead, he got stopped, arrested and the girl had to call an Uber to pick her up to take her home.  Guys said he didn't know her name, but was pretty sure she threw away his number and he won't be seeing her again.

This morning was a lot of delivering former drunks to their cars.  That peaked and I called it an early Sunday.

2017 is now here and it is time to start working on getting my paperwork in order for Tax Season.  UGH!

Today is National Whiners Day

Yep, it is true today is National Whiners Day and National Thank You Note Day.

So, Thank You everyone for stopping by here and I'm sick of not doing so well making money the last week.  There, got them both out of the way in one sentence.

I've showcased my coasters in a previous post.  Let me showcase some other plaques I have done....