Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Well, mine is 49 miles each way. I can do it in 50 minutes, but it's taken as long as 3 hours.
Thankfully I rarely have to drive during horrible commute times. And what's surprised me is that I work from home less than I could, because I actually like being in my office, around my colleagues.
ETA: Also, listening to the Harry Potter series (thanks, you know who) has helped the commute immeasurably. I am already sad that it's coming to a close.
I live 6.2 miles from my office. Public transportation can take anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes. Once it starts warming up a bit, I'm going to try walking most of that in the evening.
DH's new commute is 100 miles, one way. We're not convinced we have to move. He may take a small apartment in Madison or we may see how long we can get by on cheap hotels during the 3-4 nights a week he spends down there.
I should probably be keeping a folder of hotel receipts for our taxes next year.
The greatest thing that's ever happened in my life (possibly an exaggeration) was when I was home sick one day, or it was a holiday or something, and I turned on one of the judge shows and I had gone to high school with the people!
I used to occasionally watch COPS hoping for this.
When we paid someone to do our taxes it was about $400, so we've done it ourselves ever since. I always did my own for years, but I've handed those duties over to Cody. He's better at it.
I am already sad that it's coming to a close.
Then you can go back and listen to it in Jim Dale's voice for a whole new experience!
I used to occasionally watch COPS hoping for this.
Heh. I should watch that Boston cop show for that, but I think the people I know most likely to be arrested still can't cross the river into Actual Boston.
Once, on an episode of COPS during Mardi Gras, I saw someone I went to high school with. As a cop. That was unexpected.
I think I paId $400 the year I bought my house. It was the year of the first-timer $8K rebate, and my first with a mortgage, so I wasn't comfortable with muddling my way through turbo tax. The next year, I used TurboTax and compared it to the previous year's to see if anything appeared out of sort. It didn't so with the AAA discount, feds and state cost me something like $40.
KC South Patrol was one of the regular locations for COPS, which is totally my old hood. I figure I had even chances of knowing one of the cops or one of the people being arrested.