Just reposting this, still could use some help this month, but don't neglect your or your families needs. My car AC died ($900) right when the weather gets hot and muggy, I need to replace a compressor, and there's utilities to pay. However it flows, I am ever grateful for you following this blog and I love you all! I am working more on my content and seeking ways to monetize the best of the older content I have, perhaps on X in a subscription format.
Terran.
3/23/2025
Hi everyone! Thank you for all the kind words and thoughts sent my direction. Thanks to those local and nonlocal who sent energy during the recent procedure. Calm hands and good emotions are important when someone is poking around in your heart. It was seen and felt!
I am going to have to change tact in my work. Ride share driving is becoming more and more unfeasible, as net fares decline with the operators taking more for themselves and shareholders. I could get higher fares if I had a larger vehicle that sat more people and was newer, but then I have higher costs too. So I am considering what I can do, one is write, the other is technical work or possibly computer coding. AI is going change demand for programmers which much of the mundane work being doing by AI, and its surprisingly capable in that way. Large language model AIs are good with computer languages, that shouldn't be too surprising. What they are not good with is the art of it all, so there will always be niches for certain skills. I fear there will be too much reliance on AI, as sometimes what it says and does is complete nonsense. It's an infant technology. There are flaws.
Someone offered me a bitcoin mining machine a few years ago, I sometimes kick myself for not taking him up on that. Hindsight is always 20/20. I still think the whole crypto thing is a bit of a passive aggressive take on replacing the Federal Reserve notes. Why not get rid of the Federal Reserve instead? And go back to an asset based currency? And you don't have to have the internet to move it around.
I do have a book I need to finish for Xerxes, Denice made kind of a deal with Xerxes and I volunteered to get it all down in text and on the Internet. I haven't finished my part of it yet, although it is on Substack. I need to publish it on Amazon or similar outlet too. Admittedly I kept a low profile with it given Xerxes history with Persia and the Biden admin's war mongering with Iran. But it's the kid of message even the Mullahs in Iran wouldn't like it anymore than the Rabbis in Jerusalem. I do believe Xerxes has come back, in a new body, with a completely contrite heart about his mistakes so long ago that sent Persia on a wrong track which affects it to this day. There's kind of a rule of thumb in the universe, if you mess something up, you get to come back and fix it. I don't expect to make money from it, it's more at this stage keeping my word on the small book. But there are other things I could make money writing about.
My plan with the blog is keep writing at least until I do meet my friends in person. After that, everyone will be having similar experiences and its purpose would be completed. If you can help out with the blog it'd be greatly appreciated. I'd like to raise $800 or more for the end of the month. Particular need is paying some utility bills and I need a replacement rack and pinion hydraulic system for my car, mine is leaking. A used one would be adequate as long as it doesn't leak. I have given over 8000 rides since December 2017. Austin's potholes and speed bumps have not been kind to suspension components, next on the list after the rack and pinion is new struts. It's been a good car and very reliable but everything physical wears out eventually, even our bodies.
I love you all!
Terran
