Hello World! (Surge: None)

Greetings! My name is Tim, and I am a geek. Specifically a computer geek, and a systems engineer. I'm currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer (first typoed as "Engibeer"; I really considered leaving that in there :)) at Google - so I'm doing pretty okay. (To be clear up front, this is a 100% personal blog, I don't speak for Google or Uber, all opinions are my own.)

A couple of weeks ago, after taking several very different UberX rides on a trip to Baltimore, I decided to try my hand at this whole Uber driver thing myself. Not to make any serious money, but because I enjoy driving and have a car I don't use much and hey why not?

Then, after coming home from day 2 of driving and regaling my partner Liz with my rides of the night, I thought to myself hey, why not blog this? I'm sure someone else has done it before, but I haven't meaningfully blogged in years and it felt like this experiment needed an outlet. So here you have it - Tales of an Uber Geek!

The plan is, I'm going to drive people around, on evenings and weekends and whenever I feel like it, then you, faithful Internets, will get a recap of how it all went. Exciting, right? Obviously I won't provide names or detailed locations because user privacy is important to me (and Uber, and my contract with Uber), but if anything interesting happens, you'll hear about it! I may or may not post detailed revenue details too, we'll see (but to be clear, I'm not actually doing this to make money...)

Coming next: the signup process, and how surprisingly painless it is!