On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> You guys are just a bunch of wimps. Seven paces, phaaa! I proudly
> commute a full 43 miles 753 yards 2 feet 6 7/16 inches (that's some
> other amount in communist units), through some of the worst automobile
> traffic known to personkind! Swerving madly through traffic wantonly
> displaying my middle finger and sounding my horn ...
>
> Well, OK, maybe not. I take the train 90 some odd percent of the
> time. It's much higher quality time than driving, but not as
> desirable as a telecommute. I envy you.
There are days when a train commute would have been welcome. Getting on a
train is a perfect excuse to pull out a book and get some reading done.
Of course, this would have meant getting up earlier, dragging myself into
an office somewhere, etc., which would have been less of a thrill as it
continued on.... (And forget working when you're just a little too sick
to leave the house, but not so sick that you can't sit at the computer and
get something constructive done an hour at a time. The biggest thing
that telecommuting has done for us is drastically reduce the number of
sick days we've had to take. Dan's taken less than 5 in the past 2
years, and I never took one unless I was feeling *really* miserable.)
Julia
