*Thursday, 16Jun05, 8:42 am, somewhere on the 38B route:*
I've got a gig in Georgetown for a few weeks. Georgetown: too far to walk, to pricey to park -- what's an information worker to do? Ride the bus, my friend.
After about a year of working from home, seeing people on a regular basis is a change. I've used the metro regularly a few years ago, but this is my first go at a bus. From door-to-door it's a 45 minute trip, on average. My old commute out to Dulles took about that long, but having a passive seat on a bus greatly reduces one's level of anxiety.
And the bus is a more intimate mode of transportation. It's much smaller than a metro train, so you see the same folks over & over. You know which neighborhood they live in, which neighborhoods they work in.
But bus riding and cabinet-making remain mutually exclusive for me -- I still spend 1 1/2 hours a day en route from where I've left to where I'm going. So I'm cutting back to 3 workdays per week starting this week. No matter how much I whine, that kitchen ain't gonna finish itself.
