i cheaped out on the first one, wasted $400 i dont have on the first robot i saw. it leaked pee. it was finicky about when it wanted to work.
i ended up putting an old mattress cover under it to soak up the pee as i waited for an actual robot to arrive at an even steeper price.
but hooking that thing up today. man. this is how it should be!
the cats will prob pee *around* it before going all in, but thats why i have this amazing spin mop
the other great thing i bought this year. 
found an even better mechanic who is even cooler than my already cool dudes but best of all hes a block away from me. i do feel guilty switching over to him tho because i am a loyal man and the father son team have done me really well over the years.
been driving smarter. not longer. it helped that last week was the soon-to-be end at ucla bc they were out in droves. also it helped it was pride weekend. i did better than i had in a long time. also lyft bribed me $480 to do 32 trips over the weekend. because im dumb i didnt see the message until saturday. i had already started an uber bribe so i had to get lucky to pull them both off. i struck luck in westwood. but when i got home last night i was pooped.
my new adhd meds are good, if not mild. got a med student who works at a pharmacy about them and she said they’re basically adderall. i said but isnt there an adderall shortage? she said yes but people dont know that thats what these are. but these are in a shortage too.
my car has a check engine light on it. it mostly drives well but you can tell somethings a little off. i have an appointment on the 13th to get new wires. but i need to remember to tell them that it gets hot in my car. maybe the heater is overdoing it?
im addicted to midjourney it makes me so creative.
even if im not using midjourney
or am i
mwhaahahahahaha
some nights ill just try to make the weirdest things i can
figuring out how creative and deep and dark and random the computer is
then other nights i try to see how pretty it can be 
i am not a minimalist.
i like lots of crazy things happening all at the same time.
and i like things slightly evil
which midjourney excels at.
more precisely, it seems to love any sort of human sadness or horror.
anger, sorrow, mayhem – that AI gets it
it also loves skeletons
skulls
and darkness
i mean i love that so much.
and in so many ways midjourney is an extension of our imagination
but trust me, not even my imagination is that solid.
A former colleague from the LA Times recommended that I reach out to a friend of his who runs a Green website about electric vehicles. The pay was fine but I don’t have an EV!
No problem for the first story I borrowed my brother’s Kia EV (pictured above) and went hotel hopping around Santa Monica
For the next piece I rented a low price LA EV car and tooled around Hollywood including the cemetery and brought along the best Hollywood tour guide Brian Donnelly.
My friend Bree hires me a few times a week to write about concerts and rock history for Setlist.FM. Here’s a few I’ve done for her over the last lil while
Foo Fighters hire former Replacements drummer for replacement for their drummer
https://www.setlist.fm/news/05-23/foo-fighters-announce-new-drummer-before-tour-7bd6aaec
34 years ago Metallica rocked the Troubadour in preperation for Monsters of Rock
https://www.setlist.fm/news/05-23/setlist-history-metallica-warms-up-at-la-club-before-monsters-73d6aaed
Beyonce earned $230,000 a minute for this performance in Dubai
https://www.setlist.fm/news/05-23/beyonce-kicks-off-renaissance-tour-with-debuts-covers-tude-63d6aaf7
The Cure kick off their tour with rarely-played gems
https://www.setlist.fm/news/05-23/the-cure-kick-off-north-american-tour-w-rarely-played-gems-7bd6aafc
AC/DC hasn’t played their biggest charting single since last century, they should at Power Trip
https://www.setlist.fm/news/05-23/powertrip-could-make-news-if-acdc-plays-some-of-these-hits-63d6aaff
Janet Jackson starts off tour with a 40-song set
https://www.setlist.fm/news/04-23/janet-jackson-kicks-off-together-again-tour-with-40-song-set-7bd6aa10
ive waited six months to get on some ADHD pills and now that im on them i hate them
they make me jittery and they dont even have speed in them
i am waking up in the middle of the night, im mad at everything
i feel like im on drugs
not fun, happy, natural things that come from the earth
but something sketchy that im forcing myself to tolerate bc i read on reddit they can take up to two months to get used to
it’s been like day three. ive tried them in the day and at night. both are bad.
not sure what to do.
suffer?
they make you fill out a little questionaire the day before the deal.
are you suicidal? do you wanna kill anyone? are you having trouble concentrating?
some wild questions before getting to the matter at hand.
anyways i am a peaceful man i just have a hard time concentrating when i need to do it the most.
so when i was filling it out today i started thinking i dont need any pills. im fine. i get a lot of things done.
but then tonight i realized im really cutting it close with one assignment i have. i just offered up an idea about another piece – much smaller – for bree. and then every monday and tuesday i have issues doing my dumb blog post.
so yes i do need pills because i just wanna be a normal guy who does his work, knocks it out, takes a dump and goes to sleep.
but since when have i ever been normal?
i told a pretty girl the other day that i have her pics all around my apartment. am i insane? how creepy does that sound?
told another i had her picture in my medicine cabinet. i thought that would disturb her. instead she told me about her memory of that day and how she did a lot of new things with me for the first time.
i said what?
she said, getting out of my comfort zone in order to grow as a person.
then she said, having my picture taken and believe I was beautiful.
the devil is working over time in our heads.
convincing knockouts they arent pretty
tricking writers like me into not writing.
then trying to talk my brain out of not pursing the meds they need.
this week is screwed because I LOVE DRIVING SO MUCH and today i couldnt do it bc of the podcast and tomorrow i cant do it because of the writing thing ive gotta do all day
which means i only have three days to make money at driving.
so heres the plan. my goal for those three days is $250 a day. and hit the $230 bonus, so thats not a bad week. plus the writing will get me $600 bc they owe me from last month.
ok whew im glad i wrote that all out. that means i can write tomorrow, take the dr call at noon. then go to the movies, get home, fall asleep early and be up at the crack of the day on friday and knock out 30 rides.
thanks to my pal Bree, once or twice a week I get to write about either upcoming rock shows, recent gigs, or in today’s case, a classic show.
Joy Division / New Order were not bands I loved because they were post punk, dreary, with drum machines. But over time I have warmed to them.
Today I was asked to write about their final show which happened on this day in 1980.
One reason I like to write about these shows is because I learn so much. Also because Bree is encouraging and so nice to work with.
Looking at the stats, I’ve done 50 pieces for her.
Recently I did stories about Metallica in Holland, Weezer in Pomona, and Janet Jackson in Florida.
so he made sure those were the best parts of his paintings.
uber dares us every weekend to take 80 trips.
they bribe us with $200 or $170.
this week it was $170, which is a rip off but i look at it as reimbursement for the gas i use.
i did 28 trips on friday, 30 yesterday, so i had to do the rest today.
started off STRONG. 15 trips in 2 1/2 hours. but then they refused to give me any short rides for a long ass time. i went an hour with zero trips as i slunk around highland park, echo park, and silver lake.
when i arrived in hollywood the only trips they gave me were little ones from the hotels to the Hollywood Bowl. Willie Nelson is celebrating his 90th birthday there this weekend with two shows and tons of guests.
typically drivers avoid the Bowl bc traffic is like quicksand over there.
but i needed 5 trips so i said fuckit, since it was still 2 hours before showtime.
these fans were so sweet. mostly southerners who flew out here for the weekend. older. kind.
i did three trips and then the traffic started getting gnarly so i stopped taking them.
ended up driving the prettiest half black girl ive ever seen to a “day party” at the Penthouse club, which it turns out is the old Club Lingerie. damn she was pretty.
final ride was two Black women going to Lucky Strike becuase it was open mic for singing.
got home, did some work on the podcast and if Jordan has this week’s episode ready for me i’ll do that tomorrow, otherwise i may go see a movie. its been a while.
but i was sooooo tired yesterday
was it the celebratory burrito i ate? was it im getting old and moldy?
who know, but yesterday i just sat in my bed and tried to relax but i cant relax im always moving
last night i wrote about weezer for bree and that will be up on setlist.fm shortly
now im getting ready to rent an electric car so i can review it for this EV website i already wrote one piece for and now they want more. so thats nice.
my hands are still a little numb. i really need to take another day off of driving but i have to interview Glen at the food bank after i do this EV thing – which is also a tour around Hollywood for an hour with my man Brian.
then i have to get my real car smog checked and get a new registration.
SO MUCH TO DO ON ONES DAY OFF.
i really should take tomorrow off and maybe i will because my hands really need rest.
8 hours, $250. only did a few longish rides and those were all under 30 minutes each
and i only drove 100 miles.
could be going to the airport be for the birds?
for the last two days ive been trying to get short rides in order to get this bonus
i need to do 32 rides tomorrow to get it, i feel good bc today i did 28 and the day before i did 29. i just need to get out there by 10am and focus on the shorties. maybe a long one at the end. and stop looking for surges.
i caught a few today. one was worth $14. in the valley. if they continue to reward drivers in the val, you’ll see me out there more. roads are bigger. tons of cut throughs. easier to pick up.
bonded with these columbians
peed at a little league
ate one and a half impossible burgers.
damnit the other half is in the glove box.