Ok. The worst of an appallingly busy year is over. Time to start re-instating the things we really believe in. (Not to mention getting the most out of our compensation from the University!). We are fortunate to have bus passes as part of our paychecks. This serves the University well, when we actually decide to use them to get to work---fewer parking spaces means less ongoing expense.
In general, J and I do pretty well. Even in this year of excess meetings, late nights, unpredictable schedules, and learning our new environment, we only drove the horse truck to work once. Other times, we worked it out so we went in together, and one of us took the bus home.
But starting next week, J is on sabbatical for 15 months. Which gives us a lot of freedom for testing things out. So the plan is to take the bus to work from here on out. We had already cut our driving from ~100 miles per week to ~75 miles, by moving out here (while we go to work more days the ponies used to be farther. This is probably an underestimate of our prior driving...). So now, we'll cut down even further, perhaps even to 15 miles per week!
The bus stop is about a mile from our house, and we have a transfer downtown. Depending on whether we make the really tight connection, or leave a little earlier, the trip takes 40-50 minutes. Just the perfect amount of time to read the paper, catch up on blogs, or relax with an audiobook!
Since January, I've been keeping track of 'one-star' and 'two-star' days. These are days when either I or both of us don't get in the car at all! I'm looking forward to seeing those numbers really climb!
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