Carrie called me at work to let me know there was a situation. She had to go see a doctor and I told her I would take care of Shane. I called Pop and gave him a 30 minute eta (the usual).
It took me 1 hour and 20 minutes to drive 17 miles today. I knew my trip was going to be bad when the two motorcycle cops came pushing along the jersey wall to escort a tow truck through gridlock.
80 minutes / 17 miles = 60 minutes / x miles
1020 = 80x
1020/80 = 80x/80
12.75 = x
That's an average rate of travel at 12.75 miles per hour.
Who says you can't learn anything useful in middle school? Math like that is one way I keep myself entertained when I've run out of license plates and bumper stickers to read. On long road trips, I try to calculate distance per minute, per 5 minutes, per 10 minutes.....etc etc. It's not high level math, but it's enough to keep my brain from turning off.
It only took me 50 minutes to drive 20 miles home with Shane, so that was an improvement. We pulled up at 7 PM.
Long day, but there was only an hour and a half or so of child care before Shane went to bed.
There are many things I love about the area I live in, but the traffic is not one of them. It's a bit of a rat race.
My commute in?
6 miles in under 15 minutes. The drive home makes those 6 miles transform into a 20-30 minute trip on average with 35 minutes being my upper extreme so far.
Traffic flows in mysterious ways. I'm a lucky son of a ______ by this area's standards.
My wanderlust sometimes calls me to look at traveling to other areas, but my roots are deep. My school system is great for a public school system (good for my job and for Shane one day), I have family in the general area (which includes the Nana-Pop Day Care Center), and I like that there are hills and trees. Plus, there's about any kind of restaurant and people from all sorts of interesting places living in this area. I want my son to grow up with an open mind. He tried pho for the first time with Genevieve and Carrie yesterday.
That's it for tonight.
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