Trying Uber and DoorDash here is coming out as a bit of a failure. Uber has not even acted as though it were alive. I just get a standard map. There is one exception. It did pretend that it was alive in Rexburg, Idaho, and showed me a red zone for the pricing. Nothing more. IT was telling me that if I accepted any of the non-existent rides in a few blocks’ radius, I would get a $5.25 bonus pay. I am not driving to Rexburg. I’d spend more than that getting halfway there. Otherwise, the app has acted like it is not alive for a week now.
Door Dash on the other hand has been sporadic. It has offered me drives and I have taken them. They have been low earners. I got a decent one once, but I don’t think I will see a repeat of that feat. I am earning a tiny amount of money, but nowhere near enough to pay the bills or eat off of.
So, what will we do now? There is a fair amount of snow set to fall this weekend. I need to get some firewood cut and split today and put it on the pile ready to keep us warm for the next week or so. I think that’s almost what we are down to. I think we could last a week, or maybe a little more on what we have left. Probably two if I am a little more optimistic. But the point is, I will need to keep up for the rest of the winter. There is not enough to get us through. I wonder at times like this if I should finish my woodshed, then get more practice by making another one. Then keep them both full for winter firewood. I’d like to see a pile after that readying up for the following year and then start selling the rest. That requires a firewood sale rack.
My daughter just asked me if we still had the container for sourdough starter. I don’t know where it has gone, and if the lid has survived as it was seriously cracked, but not yet broken in half. Then I proclaimed that I could just turn a new one on the lathe. She laughed and said, “You probably could.” Well, yeah, I could. That’s the point. What’s more, I have that lovely walnut wood I can use to turn it from! That would make a lovely lid! Looks like I am looking for the ceramic sourdough starter pot today.
I could justify going down to Logan to see if the Uber app lights up there for me just being there. I could run in some bills that need paying with the hospital and with the eye doc. But I need to bring others along with me, so I could not earn a penny while there, unless I can get Door Dash to liven up. Then maybe. I don’t know. We’ll see.