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The spreadsheet I use to track commutes (mostly for the purposes of getting transit reimbursement) lends itself to a lovely pie chart like this one. FWIW, April 11 was the tipping point from bus back onto the bike.
One small but satisfying aspect of my job is designing the poster each year for the Thurston County Bicycle Commuter Contest
close up of scratches on a train window in a train that's going to take me to where I work
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close-up van krassen op een raampje van een trein die me naar mijn werk gaat brengen
More suburban wildlife encounters. Just managed to snap a picture of this bobcat as it sauntered across the lawn and driveway of this house in the middle of a Richardson, TX neighborhood. Didn't have time but to quickly grab the digital and push the zoom before it was through the hedge. So it was a little blurry.
This map represents my daily commute to and from work, plus a few other destinations as well.
The data was recorded with my GPS unit, then loaded into Google Earth. Each track is set to a 15% opacity, and where they overlap, it gets darker. Therefore, the darkest parts of the path represent areas I travel through frequently, while fainter areas represent rarely-travelled paths.
The blue line going up off the top of the map goes to my house, and the one going down off the bottom goes to my work. (what, you didn't think I'd actually tell you where I live and work, did you?)
Do not be fooled by the sunny summer satellite imagery! These commutes all occurred within the last 2 weeks!
Patience is definitely a requirement to do the commute I have to do everyday to get to work. That and a sound mind and body.
Every morning I wake up, head over to the local train station, hop on the MetroLink train, and in one hour I'm at the Union Station in Downtown L.A. From there, I drive my car(which I keep parked at the Union Station) to the office in Woodland Hills, which takes another hour...if I'm lucky. I pretty much take the 101 Freeway the whole way, which is ranked as one of the top 5 worst freeways in the nation. Nice!
Now the real fun comes in the evening. I leave work at 6pm and make a mad rush back to the Union Station to catch the 7pm train, so that I can make it home by 8pm. If I miss the 7pm train, then I have to wait at the train station until the next train which is at 8pm. And that means I don't get home until 9pm. And that sucks! That bad thing is...I miss the 7pm train at least 3 of the 5 days of the week.
These past two days have been pretty crappy. On Tuesday night, about 10 minutes into my commute, I knew I was going to miss the 7pm train, so rather than wait at the station until 8pm, I just drove straight home. Wasn't too bad. But that meant that the next morning, I would have to drive all the way to work(since the car I drove home is the one I usually keep at the Union Station). It took me almost FOUR hours to get to work. Un-friggin-believable! I seriously wanted to kill someone. There were accidents everywhere on the freeway...the entire way to work. Why there were so many damn accidents was beyond me. When it rains, that's one thing. But it was clear blue skies. Excellent weather. Perfect driving conditions. Anyways, that was the single worst one way commute I've ever had. And today wasn't a whole lot better. One hour by train and almost 2 hours by car. Ugh!
Remember Michael Douglas' character from Falling Down? That's gonna be me soon. I need to move closer to work...ASAP!