Alright, slowly getting the hang of DoorDashing and uploading to TikTok. Still figuring out the best way to make content while delivering safely. I’m on day four of dashing, figuring out the best times and areas to maximize earnings. The soft carry bags I had were impossible to strap down safely, so other day I went and extended the rack size and mounted a fishing cooler to the back. Almost got hit by a truck and bus the other night, so I’ve added reflectors, and now tonight I’ve added LED string lights around the cooler and whole moped to increase visibility at night and dusk, since it seems like dinner time is gonna be a main time for dashing. Tried nighttime and late night in town the other night and it was good because no traffic and better drivers, but it started raining and I got completely soaked. Town orders seem to have less tips than Wessai, though it seems like people may be adding tips after the fact since a random $5 tip appeared today from a past order. We shall proceed… and continue.
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Cheeee~ launched da TikTok. Dey nevah wen reply about unbanning @honolulugrindz and I nevah like wait so I just made one new hando: @hnlgrndz 🔥 Posted some videos so dey know I stay one real person. Not too shabbeh. K I really gotta do my homework for realz now lmao
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I went for da inaugural night ride to grab some grindz. Choke fun. Small kine scary. But I did get to observe one DoorDash motorcycle guy in da wild while I waited for my food.
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Late night study grind meets late night grindz 🌮 I just went order DoorDash kinohi loa to see how da customer experience stay. Off da bat, I like how stay more private, not showing any kine photo or profile of da Dasher. Only options they get stay call, text, or shoot ’em some more tips. Yessah! Bare necessities lidat, das one skeezah protection program, brah. Secondly, customers can “double dash” and add one nadda order on top. Good to know. Pretty much same like Uber Eats, but not so nīele. Rajah.
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Brah I was setting up my phone for TikTok and tried to log in and it said the account got banned 💀 I never upload anything yet, pretty sure it was because I changed the phone without logging out on the old phone, so it thought it was “suspicious.” Anyway, I sent an appeal showing I own this domain, honolulugrinds.com, and the YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram handles of @honoulugrindz so hopefully it gets settled soon! I’m still setting up, TikTok, let me live! 😭
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Just went adjust some copy on the main page, changed, “Jus trow your trash in da trash can” to “Jus trow your pilau trash in da rubbish can” 💀 Got one bettah flow iykyk. Also changed the email address to show aloha {at} honolulugrindz {dot} com to prevent bad kine spam. K go nainai for realz now.
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Okay okay, seems like the Jetpack app is adding comment fields below the post on its own for some reason. If someone leaves one comment, it goes to the app for approval. I don’t see one setting to turn ‘dis ’em off but I stay supah tired right now, I check ’em latahz. Other that, I went redirect honolulugrinds.com to honolulugrindz.com. Automatic. Late night grind ovah and out. 🌙
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The last post randomly showing one field for leave comments, I don’t know where that came from, so this is a test post…
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K went finish da Alcohol Compliance certification. Bottom line, if you stay underage or you too buss already, no can. Shoots.
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K, dis one from da WordPress app. Da UI stay almost identical, but we just try anyway.
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Seems to be connected, Jetpack and WordPress app up and running! Dis post from Jetpack. UI kinna fanceh, ho. Brah you know what’s kinda trippy? I nevah even hard launch da site yet and somehow people already stay checking ‘em out. Stay proof righdea, everyone like Honolulu Grindz, worldwide! 🌏
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K now I’m getting dis phone setup for on da road updates. Went install WordPress and Jetpack apps so I can microblog from da road, maybe find some other food bloggahz, who knows. Let’s try test um.
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Ho brah, was one hectic week, too many tings on da list for skoo. Sorry ah, small kine drop off. Das okay, fall down ten times, get up eleven, know watimean? I not trying for fall down on da moped tho, just metaphorical kine fall. Kk, updates, updates… officially stay one DoorDasher now! I went put “ebike” cause nevah get one “moped” option so dis original kine gas “ebike,” k, no greenwashing here brah, dis da kine ʻeneʻene ebike k, 92 octane, cheeee~ 🛵
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Ho today was nuts, bah. Linked Pinterest as a claimed website, fixed random security issues, den wen hear news of the largest data breach in history, 16 billion passwords exposed across da heavy hitters like government, Google, FB, everybody. Brrrrraahh. Kraaaazeh. Ran to one meeting for school, then heard one moped offer was garans ballbarans. Celebrated with Leonard’s ube malasada. Road dat buggah home, dropped it first time I try use da center kickstand. 😭 Wanted for crash out but had one naddah school meeting online, but they went meet without me. Small kine thankful, small kine irraz, ate one naddah malasada, boom, all bettah. Leonard’s saved the day for real. K pau hana, go nainai now.
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Adjusted some wording on the landing page, fixed HTTPS certificate, checked site across some phones and browsers. Not too shabbeh. Tomorrow, gotta fix the subheader spacing to turn off hyphenation. Looked at two mopeds, made two offers, both kinda iffy, now we wait and see. No rush. 92% on math exam, hashtag thankful, hashtag super tired. (stares into middle distance for like 12 5/7 minutes considering that there are those who unironically speak in hashtags, and they may or may not be the same people who speak the lowercase—never uppercase—acronym “lol” as a singular word instead of actual laughter out loud, yet language is a mirror and reflection of culture, so perhaps one day soon, a singular brave soul will rise up and violently exclaim “LOLLLLLL” without laughter or intonation across a crowded room)
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Website 95% pau! Just gotta tweak manini kine things here and there… laytahz. Almos wen forget I get one math exam dis aftahnoon. Opted against “Aloha ‘āina, you faka” as a reason to watch. That’s not pono to say, but the intent is pretty solid.
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K, I had to manually correct the timestamp for the first posts to show up correctly. This is why you cannot believe everything “important” you see on the Internet, brah. I literally just changed the time of the posts and now they show up “correctly.” Das one cyber hygiene teaching moment, brah.
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Brah 😭 Now the time is correctly showing HST for current posts, but the previous ones stay time traveling. Lmao
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Time zone was set to UTC, not HST. K, k, now should be fine…
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Brah, why is the time some random time zone? Stay 10 hours ahead of HST, for what? WORDPRESS, WHY YOU LIKE GET SLAPS? You one kolohe buggah, you.
