Random side note to traffic issues. It has been 6 months since I have driven on I-95. Instead I take the beach road and it has been slower but so much less stress.
This weekend I charted my potential routes for driving to NY for the summer and the highway route is ~22 hrs and the off highway options are ~30 hours. I decided it was worth it. Less chance for catastrophe and a change of scenery from a route I have done many dozens of times. Instead of staying in a hotel 1 night I am thinking 3, broken into fairly even chunks, with the 4th leg a short one from NYC to Otter Lake. First leg from home to Savannah to visit my niece. 2nd leg to Charlottesville (bats eyes at Zenkitty). 3rd leg to Staten Island to stay with my wonderful SIL and maybe kidnap her and take her with me upstate.
The notion is to arrive feeling like I have been on vacation instead of arriving tense and exhausted from two very long days of highway traffic.
That sounds nice, Laura. Always better to be able to enjoy the driving part of the trip rather than just enduring it until you get where you are going.
Crapola, I left the list of places I need to call about my parents' party at home. Oh well, a lot of them are probably closed on Mondays, anyway.
We've got the lights on the freeway onramps during rush hour. I think it helps, in that the idiots have fewer opportunities to try to intimidate their way onto the highway.
I much prefer non-freeway driving, those people are maniacs.
Of course some wacky engineers have decided to put a light at the end of ramps to control traffic volume. Weeps.
Weird. In the Chicago area we have lights at the beginning of ramps so you still have time to accelerate and merge.
Exactly, that would make sense. These are right at the highway. No car I drive goes from 0-75 in moments.
I realized over lunch that Oz has peed on the bag I have with me. It's a leather bag. I hope Nature's Miracle can work miracles.
Oz is such a jerk.
I may get a job offer today, and I don't know how I feel about it. I will have a slightly better idea once I actually get it, but I suspect I'm still going to be conflicted.
Is one of you Nestra on Tumblr?
Yes, I just followed you. Tumblr recommended you to me, scarily enough.
