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dogscoff · #1 September 18th, 2003, 05:56 PM

I can sympathise, Thermo. I used to commute 60+60 miles a day, and it sucked. Well, it did when I was driving. Then I got involved in a car pool and that improved things slightly, I could sit in the back get 2 hours a day se4 time on my laptop=-)

Or sleep... Sleep was good.

Atrocities · #2 September 18th, 2003, 06:00 PM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Yep 150 miles round trip. Takes 1h10m on a good day. 1h40m on a normal day. And too damn many hours to count on a bad day

It gives car pooling a new level of importance. If I drop the wife off down town, we use her car @30>35mpg. If I ditch the grand tour of down town Baltimore and drive myself then I have a choice of the K1500 @14>16mpg or the SS at about 20mpg

Most of the trip is on US 70 and usually at 80 to 90 mph.(Very cool in the SS ) It's the back roads from 70 to my home that are the worst part of the trip. The traffic in Baltimore is usually not that bad.

Man if there was ever an excuse to find a job closer to home, this would be it. Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 September 18th, 2003, 10:09 PM

shouldn't there be a uniun rule requiring them to inform you first?

oleg · #4 September 18th, 2003, 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
... Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.

Vancouver BC or Vancouver WA ?

Thermodyne · #5 September 19th, 2003, 01:38 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:

quote:
Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Yep 150 miles round trip. Takes 1h10m on a good day. 1h40m on a normal day. And too damn many hours to count on a bad day

It gives car pooling a new level of importance. If I drop the wife off down town, we use her car @30>35mpg. If I ditch the grand tour of down town Baltimore and drive myself then I have a choice of the K1500 @14>16mpg or the SS at about 20mpg

Most of the trip is on US 70 and usually at 80 to 90 mph.(Very cool in the SS ) It's the back roads from 70 to my home that are the worst part of the trip. The traffic in Baltimore is usually not that bad.

Man if there was ever an excuse to find a job closer to home, this would be it. Oh wait, I lived in Vancouver and worked in Seattle for a while. That was a 2.5 hour drive on the best of days, and I shudder to recall the worse of days.

I do IT, so I took what I could find

Fyron · #6 September 19th, 2003, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
shouldn't there be a uniun rule requiring them to inform you first?

Inform you of what? You know where the place you will be working at is located before you get the job...

Thermodyne · #7 September 19th, 2003, 01:48 AM

Update: The wind and rain got to Baltimore at about 2pm, so we headed south west for home. The weather got worse the farther we went. Got home at 4 and lost the power at 4:20. Then my damn old a$$ generator wouldn�t start! Got it going at 7, but it is running kind of poorly. I think it does not like the designer (low sulfur) fuel that we have here now. At times the wind is blowing more than 45mph, that�s as high as my weather station can read. And the already soaked ground is no holding any of the rain. So by morning I think we will have some stream flooding.