Something to be thankful for...

...that I don't have to do this commute every day. Right now I'm just doing it two days a week, for meetings with a client in the East Side 'burbs.

SMVs

Today it wasn't the 2 1/2 hour saga I suffered two weeks ago, but it was:

1) minus any lunch -- my 3hr. meeting started at noon and oddly no lunch was provided, even though the meeting invite indicated it would be and

2) minus any air-conditioning (the car's AC was only blowing hot air).

Also, our next car will be an automatic transmission.  I otherwise much prefer a stick, but in stop-n-go it's not so handy. We keep our vehicles almost forever (the car's a '94, but has just has 50K miles on it) so there no new car in our immediate future. But for the next one I'll capitulate to an automatic.