Day 3 (Surge: Moderate)

Day 3 was Wednesday - continuous days and I'm not bored, that's a plus. Another 8-10pm evening planned, and it worked out similarly.

Meta note: these reports are likely to get a little shorter - if I'm spending my free time driving, it doesn't leave that much free time for blogging, I didn't calculate that! So I'll probably just list trips, and write more detail about the more interesting ones. Format comments welcome!

No surge in my area starting out, so I headed towards the Seaport district, which was surging. It was 8:35 by the time I got my first trip, which is the longest I've waited for the first rider to date.

First pickup was from a hotel in the Seaport district, heading to the Hilton at the airport. Single rider, nothing exciting. I did notice a lot of runners bibs on people walking around the Seaport, which seemed a likely source of the surge. Good to know for later in the night.

Trip count: 1. Trip earnings: $11.47

Since I don't have livery plates or a jitney license, which are required by the City of Boston and Massport to pick up at Logan Airport, I didn't really expect much by way of requests in that area, so I just headed back towards the Seaport.

Got another request in the Seaport, headed out to Charlestown near the Spaulding Rehabilitation Center. Nice young woman, she gave me a couple of routing suggestions, obviously had experience with GPS making bad calls and just wanted to get home. No problems, another smooth trip.

Trip count: 2. Trip earnings: $10.24

Of course, that last trip left me in Charlestown (near the Navy Yard, a mostly residential area) on a Wednesday evening - not necessarily a hotbed. I didn't expect to get another pickup, but as I was on my way out of the neighborhood, boop boop, pickup request! Turning around, back I go...

Another single rider, this a young man heading to the Park Street area. This was a night of quiet riders, mostly, another short quiet trip.

Trip count: 3. Trip earnings: $6.56

Finally, as I was cruising towards home and debating calling it a night, got a pick up in the South End. Picked up a younger couple who had been out at dinner with friends, and we were heading to the MGH area.

Finally, something a little interesting for the day, I got to listen to a bit of gossip about the people they had dinner with, and then we hit the jackpot - relationship shenanigans! They discussed a conversation the woman had had with an ex, who insisted he was still madly in love with her, despite the fact that he was moving to Europe with another woman who was just "the next best thing". The conversation was a bit awkward at times, but definitely interesting to listen to. :)

Trip count: 4. Trip earnings: $4.19

Day 3 trip count: 4
Day 3 earnings: $32.46

Total trip count: 10
Total earnings: $99.96 (+$3.50 Logan incentive)

Almost a hundred bucks! Actually, it turned out to be $3.50 more because my first trip should have qualified for the Logan incentive ($3.50 that basically pays the return toll for drivers who go out to the airport area but aren't going to be able to pick up a return fare because of that Massport shenanigans I mentioned earlier), but Uber had a glitch with that on Wednesday (which, to be fair, they did an excellent job at communicating and handling), so that got added to my account a day or two later.

So now, dear readers (both of you?), I have a question: how frequent do you want these posts? Should I try to post them as fast as I can? Do you want a regular posting schedule? Do you want the world? Comment to show me you really exist!