So... as often happens during one of the days Monday thru Thursday, the morning was afflicted with SLOWNESS.
All of the people who had my business card and said they'd be calling for rides today decided they had better things to do. Better to not count on that business, and just be happy when it gets here.
Anywho, I'm on my last week of reduced leases. However, the leases have escalated in prices to where I'm paying the rough equivalent of what an owner-operator would. By the end of the week, I'll be paying what a day-lease driver would pay. Bottom line here is that I'm finding my earning equilibrium just in time for the next level of commitment.
Owner-operator.
I spoke to the gentleman in the Licensesee department today, and apparently I get the entire first week after signing the contract to earn my first week's lease (kind of like how they gave me a car before paying my first day's lease as a day-lease driver). Since we were able to take care of the headlight issue with Crunkmobile II (cab 1460), I may actually consider buying that one as my first O & O cab. It's a 2006 Dodge Caravan with 188,000 miles on it. It's been regularly maintained (and will continue to be on my watch) and it's my hope that I will pay off whatever price they're asking for it before too terribly long (and by that, I mean no more than 6 months).
You see, this may serve another purpose: getting my kids a car. Both my sons still live at home, and at least one of them needs a set of wheels so they can get around better. The plan, tentatively, is to drive my Ford Ranger cross-country to the SF Bay where they live and get the title transferred once I'm sure that I've got the new set of wheels well in hand and I can take about 4 days off to do the drive and fly back to Houston.
It's me, and one cat, I don't need to be a one-man, two-car family here in Houston.
Anyway, I should know by next week what I'm driving for sure...
And today... since I took the Crunker into the shop to get the headlight fixed (again), I only worked half a day and still made some pretty righteous cash. Nicely done, I say.
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