Hell no, I would be afraid of what she would do to me

Hahaha!

Are things back to normal at your place, Rick? Hopefully the roads are in reasonable condition.

Morning Rick, Jim,

stilll a tad windy here but a lovely sunny day. What's it like in Virginia?

Roads were good for my 5AM commute.

fint, 5AM commute, your crazy! Unless of course you are supposed to start work at 6AM.

I usually start between 7:00 and 7:10. I have to be at the train at 5:40 to make it by then.

hubs leaves the house at 4 to be in DC by 6:30..dunno how he does it.

Back in my single days I would wake up at 7:00 get ready for work, read the paper, fiddle around the house take off to work and be there by 7:45. Now the alarm goes off at 6:00 AM and I get to work at a little after 7:00 We open at 7:30 and go home at 4:30 with an hour for lunch.

Good morning folks.

Morning, Glen.

I'm walking the dog at 5AM or so, and getting a leisurely start to the day. Eat bk-fast, catching up on emails, surfing the net. Then get ready for work. I'm at the office about 7:45AM.

When I lived in the 'burbs, I was up at 4:30AM and hurriedly preparing for work, which required a bus and a train ride. No dog then...it would've been too hard to manage.

Azzy, in OKC the streets numbers are simple. The center of downtown is 0. The address is a number that goes up in each direction. Most of the major streets get names but they still have the number system. OKC is is giant grid of mostly square mile main roads, and smaller streets that divide up each mile. It is complex when you throw in the curved streets. OKC for the most part is has roads aligned to north, south or east west. Texas is the real goofy state for roads. Many entire areas are just where someone hammered in a marker and went off in any old direction and put down streets. The rail road would come in and do one survey and some rancher would do his survey and some other business would do their survey and none of them ever talked to the other so roads were put down is every goofy system they could come up with.

I suspect every state and city has a system that evolved locally. The USGS ties everything together with Sections, Township & Ranges or quadrants but mostly surveyors or legal descriptions use them.

Old cities like Boston evolved streets around the cattle trails. The farmers would take their cattle to the common grounds to graze (Boston Commons) and the trails the cattle used became the streets. At least that is the story I heard. I have never been there so I can't say if it is true.

Since there is little traffic, I can leave as late as 5:10 and still make the train...but I often drive well over 100mph to pass on the short stretches where passing is allowed...but try to stay about 13 or 14 over the limit most of the time. I can get up at 4:30 and make it...but that is really pushing it.

It is bad in winter because I never get home before 7:30pm and often, not until much later...never see the sun.

Yes, that's hubs complaint..not seeing the sun in the winter since he works 10's and doesnt get home until 7:30 either.

Morning. The head cold is winning. I might just call it a day right now.

I brought my oldest to work today because school was out and the sitter was full. He's sitting quietly in the conference room coloring on plotter paper.

I woke up an hour ago......I'm about to take the pup to the dog park for a while and smoke a cigar, then off to the farmers market, then I'll put a few hours of work in......it's a tough life but somebody has to do it. :)

Although we did live in Melbourne for two years and commuted into the city from the 'burbs, we were lucky enough to be able to start early and finish early and that reduced the hour+long commute by car, down to a 20 minute commute in off peak times. Parking was always so much easier to find at that time as well.

But got a posting back to Canberra to get away from that and went back to walking or riding to work.

David, I hope you get better soon.

My Midget has gone to school today, after having Mon, Tues off sick and Wed s*** day, I am happy to see him walk out the door.

Off to lunch today with a couple of friends, so have a good day people.

This is a picture of my dad in front of the house he was born in back in 1931. His dad told me they paid $50 for the house in the 1920s. You can see that the house is tiny. It had no running water and certainly no electricity.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1362669475.jpg

The house was in an area called packing town. Real close to the slaughter house and cattle lots. Not a great place to live if your nose worked. My grandfather worked for Amour and cut up cows all day long. They managed to move to the suburbs at the edge of town back then within a few years.

Not nearly as fast as I used to be in college. Back then I could set my alarm for 10 minutes before class. Get up shower, shave, dress, and bicycle to class.

Now I don't have to shower or dress, and don't shave anymore, the commute is across the house and it still takes more than 10 minutes.

you still need to slow down.