Jerzei Collie's journal

Today's snow wasn't too bad. Visibility was a bit lower, but it was just warm enough for the snow to not stick to the roads.

One of my UberEats customers called me after I had picked up his order but before I delivered it. He said he was called into work unexpectedly and didn't want his ice cream to melt while he was away, so he canceled his order and said I could keep it.

I didn't realize I had forgotten to pay to renew the Second Life server that I use for the Rabbit Hole. I purchased a new server with the Lindens I have and made a note on my phone calendar when the server rental is about to expire.

Today's Rabbit Hole was kind of a rerun. I was so busy during the week, I couldn't put together a playlist for the show. I just took one of my playlists from last November and played four hours from that.

I took my change jar to the credit union to pad my account a little. I was expecting to only have $30-40 worth of change based on past trips. This time, I had $88.29!

One of the reasons I hate driving at night is that the delivery customers sometimes don't turn their house lights on. If I ever owned an actual house, one thing I'd do is paint the address numbers in glow-in-the-dark paint to make things easier at night.

UPDATE (10:20 PM): I had forgotten that my dad was going to take me out to dinner tonight. We went to Cracker Barrel because Dad heard great things about their fish and chips. I had a hamburger steak with corn and mac & cheese, along with some "biscuit beignets" for dessert. Those are biscuit pieces covered in cinnamon and sugar, and served with a butter pecan dipping sauce.

I might be getting a ticket in the mail soon. While I was delivering yesterday, I passed one of the city's new "photo enforcement" vehicles and then noticed I was driving 29 MPH in a school zone.

Even though doing more deliveries can be tiring, I'd love to have more weeks of high earnings like this one. I'm at about $450 and still have Sunday to go.

I canceled my YouTube TV subscription since I only use it to watch one or two channels. This will keep another $83 each month in my account.

I wanted to accept a two-delivery UberEats order listed for today, but I wasn't sure how big the orders would be. The last time I accepted a three-delivery order, I discovered two of the orders would not have fit in my car. I wish UberEats would let its clients review the exact contents of the orders to make things easier.

 I helped my dad make another of my mom's recipes Friday. This time it was spaghetti and meatballs. The sauce was completely made from scratch. I took home some of the sauce and meatballs after dinner, and Dad had given me a box of spaghetti with my groceries on Thursday.

I thought my interview for the on-air talent position was supposed to be at 2 PM. I shaved and put on a tie for this. If I don't hear from anyone by 3:30, I'll go out and do deliveries.

UPDATE: The contact person told me the position was already given to someone else, but he offered to apply for me at 10 more positions. I asked him to guarantee I would be hired by one of the companies and took a screenshot of our conversation. I talked him down from $300 to $100.

For the Rabbit Hole, I will need to take March 28th off as well. Back when the show was on Sundays, I was free to drive my dad to church on Saturdays. After the show moved to Saturdays, the driving was done by my brother and sister-in-law. Both of them will be going on a cruise over the next 7-8 days, so that means I'm the only one left to drive Dad to church tonight and next Saturday.

The depression part is knowing my dad will be very disappointed that my tax refund vanished within a week because it was supposed to last four months. The furry artists had started asking me to leave reviews for them on Fiverr by pretending to order more art. I thought they would use the money to pay down what I owed them for the art I actually ordered, but that wasn't the case. I sold some of my stocks from my Stash account to pad my account a little, but that is also running low. I really hate myself for allowing myself to be manipulated like this. I've been working extra DoorDash and UberEats shifts to make back at least a little money.

I got a huge red flag this morning when the person supposedly hiring for a media position messaged me. I received all of the documents I had paid for, but the person's latest request is definitely not okay. After using legitimate methods to pay for the services, the person wanted me to make a payment by buying an Apple gift card. DON'T EVER DO THIS! IT'S A SCAM!

It's a shame that the position I'm applying for might not exist. I hate reaching out for help only to get hooked into a scam.