pyesetz | Ankle update

rain_gryphon has asked whether I have died yet from my ankle injury. Nope, still here. Really, the ankle is doing pretty well. I can sort of walk on it (sticking the leg far out to the side so I'm mostly standing on the intact tibia, not the broken fibula). The AirCast helps a lot. I'm down to a single crutch now. I'm driving my car again. Hooray for Ontario healthcare!

Money's not so hot. I've been out of work for two months. Uber is in the middle of an IPO and is screwing over its drivers to make its new stockholders feel good — many drivers are going on strike. On Sunday I looked at Uber's promotion schedule and decided to go out early Monday morning to get 1.2× their standard rates (last year I was able to get 1.4× for much of the day; earlier this year I got a flat $19/hr for hanging around in Stratford ON in case there were ever any orders). On Monday I got into Kitchener and then discovered that Uber changed their rates again and now it's only 1.1×, which is about 20% less than they paid last year for the same work. I've put in my application at SkipTheDishes.com.

Other than that, it's the same-old same old. Nothing ever gets any better.