WAY TO GO GIRL!!

MELISSA PLAUT
(aka: New York Hack)

She announced yesterday, 04APR06, that she has signed a book deal with Villard, an imprint of Random House.

She went from "downsizing" to cabbie to blogger to soon-to-be published author. FANTASTIC!

Currently, she plans to continue driving and blogging.

Here are some pics I garnered off the web:



For those who don't know her, she is a 30 year old, NYC woman. Her prior job was as a staff writer with the webzine PopSmear. Eventually she was "downsized" ("fired", "canned", "sacked", "shown the door", "given the 'boot'") . Running low on funds and opportunities, she decided to become a NYC cabbie. 1 of 197 women among the 40,000+ licensed cabbies in NYC who drive those 13,000 yellow taxis.

Here are a couple of stories she wrote while at PopSmear.

"Man-Tits"

"Siamese Twins"

I don't know about you, but I plan to buy her book.
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VERY SLOW

Last night was like a "stoner" trying to form cognitive thought. Tedious. The runs were happening but with long periods of downtime. The "10 o'clock magic" continued in negative mode.

I had three "10-13"s (no show/no load) dispatches, in a row, last night. All of them occurred in the worst of the doldrums (10:30pm to 12:30am). Each time this occurred, the driver who had dispatch duty was second in line for a call. 30 seconds after I was responding, he would send himself off for a really good run. My run would be a "bust" and I would resume "first up." That was a bit strange. Strange enough that one of the other drivers had to "talk story" about it when our paths crossed. I sure as hell hope we don't have a cheating thief among our ranks.
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THE RIDE HOME

My 5:30am fare. In the center.
I finished my last run at 6:00am (late for me, early for most of you), at OGG. I was disappointed that I hadn't found one thing interesting to take a pic of. I was watching the sunrise on my return trip when it dawned, no pun intended, on me

"Hey, Wil. It's daylight. No flash necessary!!"

So here is my ride home:
PU'UNENE SUGAR MILL

ITS UNDER OGG's GLIDEPATH

THE "NEW" MOKULELE HIGHWAY

OLD MOKULELE HIGHWAY

WELCOME TO KIHEI

S/B PI'ILANI @ KAONOULU

SWAMPS BEHIND AZEKA-MAUKA

S/B KIHEI @ WELAKAHAO

S/B KIHEI @ THE MAU'I COAST

S/B KIHEI @ MAU'I HILL CONDOS

LOOKING NORTH ON KIHEI @ OKALANI

WELCOME TO WAILEA

SOME OF THOSE "GATED" $30-MILLION HOMES

SUNRISE


And, finally, HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY to my friend Tim Weaver of MisterWeave.com Forums.

Aloha!
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Later.....

Wil
=8^))
"Let's all be careful out there!"