Taxi Wars

The current posts and pages here were originally posted as diaries at kuro5hin.org (K5). I'd started blogging about my taxi passengers a...

One night I pulled up to the now-closed 7-11 convenience store near 35th Ave and Thomas. The taxi computer said the passenger's name was...

While reading on the internet recently, I was reminded of a passenger... The pickup address was at the Mercedes Benz dealership on Scotts...

50C (122F) is a a hot day in Phoenix. It's only ever made it to 50C once in the last hundred years, in 1990 . We lived in the northern p...

When I borked my laptop with the Windows 10 preview this past summer , I was in a bit of a pickle. My Windows Vista desktop was in my minist...

My father had the news on when I went to visit him a few weeks ago. Did you all hear about that Delta flight to NYC that slid off the runway...

A few months ago I noticed that my laptop's LCD backlight powered off if I leaned the screen most of the way back. The image was still v...

For some time I have quipped when asked for an id, "You're not a real person if you don't have a plastic card." This was ...

My third passenger this morning was going home from Dialysis - she's on the 3x/week maintenance program. While sitting at the light at 9...

Saturday opened with a prosaic series of fares. A woman going to work stopped at the Shell station for Powerade, as she'd been drinking ...

I recently posted a diary about how I am sometimes able to appear instantly. This happened again last Monday night. I only had six fares (an...

Yesterday I was going through a box, and found an envelope with some cash. These bills were received in payment from a few of my passengers....

Usually I like to develop my diaries a bit. But since kuro5hin.org is on time-out right now I'll keep it short. After my shift today I...

Every so often I get a fare where I can show up very quickly. One night I pulled into a Circle K to work on my notes. It was well after 2am,...