Handwritten Journal

This is the handwritten journal that I have been compiling of my days as a cab driver.  I have a contract with a  book publisher to complete this project and I am trying to do that.  I write in it every day while I am out in the field picking up the taxi customers.  That keeps my edge fresh , because the details are raw and my memory is jogged.  There has been a slight problem - it is called the 'great recession.' 

I have been so depressed and angry at this situation of ecomomic collapse,  that most of the stuff I have come up with reads like the Unibomber Manifesto.  Not good.  I need to calm that down. Things are starting to get better.

I actually have my printer back on-line after three years of gathering dust.  I did not have the thirty bucks for the ink cartridge (that is no lie).  It is hard to maintain any type of positive attitude when you are living alike a worm and straining you shit for 50 cents.

I have some momentum now thanks to the last two months being better than the last three "seasons" in Tampa Florida.  My moral is on the rise and I really want to make this book a best seller and get the F U C K out of this business for good. 

My publisher must be pissed.  Things are well for him and maybe he does not understand just how devastating this economy has been to the service industry in Florida.  I have not even opened his emails for fear of just being bitched at.  I guess that is a dilemma.

I am trying my best and I'm on a comeback.  I can now see light at the end of this tunnel....knock on wood.

Comments

[ILARRY]

I am glad things are picking up for you. When you get your head above water use a little common sense and put some away at all costs. You have learned how to get along with a little. Add to the little and save the rest. So that when things slow down and they will, you won't have to eat beans and 99 cent hot dogs.

[Andrew]

No offense, but I can't read any of that chicken scratch in the picture.

[beavis]

If business continues to improve, I hope you find the time for a kind word about President Obama. He really is working hard to make life better for people scraping by in this country. You don't have to believe it now but I hope you see it someday.

[Bubba Stokes]

Know what you mean. I stopped writing my blog because all I did was whine about tough times. Hard to rise above. I want to read your book and see the movie, too. B-Rad