RE: The Long Road To Typical ~ The 56-Minute, 5-Minute Freewrite ~ Fully Inspired By The 5-Minute Freewrite ~
Hey - glad to see you're still posting a few stories.
Funny that you should write about commuting. I'm only going in to work a few days a week these days and the roads are, not exactly deserted, but there's nothing recognizable as Boston Traffic. The upside: what was once a two hour drive-train-hike is now a 63 minute drive. It's like driving to a suburban town. The best boss ever said, "I'm not buying a train pass this month. Just take the company credit card and use it for parking when you need to come in."
Now that I have a little time at home I'm going through my bookmarks and working out whether to find people here, or on Hive. What a hassle! But the consensus seems to be migration. Where should I file your bookmark? I don't want to miss out on any of my favorites.
Nice hearing from you. Glad you are still out and about on the site. I post now and then, and will probably go to Hive, once I figure it all out. Would like to still post here too, so we'll see how that goes. About everyone I know is now on Hive. A few peeps still on here too.
Your commute sounds like it got a whole lot 'peachy-er'. That is SO stressful, the whole commute thing. I used to get on a noisy, rather dirty city bus at 4:50 AM (after getting up at 3:45 to ride my bike to the station), ride the bus for 1.5 hours, then turn around and do it again and get home at 6:15. I was ALWAYS tired. Don't miss that much. Though yours sounds worse. That's a lot of time out of the day. Then again, you get to live by the shore. MUCH better than an apartment over the city. At least in my boat house.
I tried to drive in Boston once. That was enough. You have nutty traffic. Even the brochure said: "red lights and walk lights are pretty much a suggestion", or something to that affect. Not very encouraging, and it WAS rather nutso. I didn't try again, just walked everywhere.
Your boss sounds like a real gem. Can't beat that. Hope you are doing your best staying away from the public's up close. I'm trying to avoid getting this thing for sure. Nasty stuff, depending on your medical history.
As for the bookmarks, like I said, I should be on here for at least a time, and am headed for HIVE, once I get some help getting there w/o giving away all my stake I've earned in the last 3 1/2 years. I'm just barely smart enough on this digital airwaves stuff to do it.
Thanks for the note, and compliment, glad you enjoy some of my wordy dalliances. They are fun to write, if nothing else, and keep me up late at night while sequestered. I just got a microphone, to try to read some of these and put them out SOMEWHERE. Not sure how that will go. Well, Cheers on a Wednesday in April.