Yeah, This isn't a Rhetorical Question At All!

[ase]

Having spent the weekend out in the middle of nowhere (really, dad, what were you thinking? The yard's nice, but the distance is nuts), I'm back to thinking about damage to my savings account.

[Poll #1307176]

I'm still not getting a car until the second quarter of 2009 at the very earliest, because life goes from a decent surplus straight to the red when I run the numbers, but this doesn't stop me from trying to beat the numbers into submission until then. (Yeah, basically: get a car, get a second job, do not pass go, do not collect debt.)

Ack, bus!

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[ase.livejournal.com]

I'm about 30 minutes door-to-desk driving to work, it's more like 1.5-2 hours if I take the bus.

I have a special awesome rant on public transit in DC, work commutes and inconvenience. But what I find best and most special are the fundamental assumptions that you the consumer have a car and will use it to pick up groceries and other necessaries. Any day where I have to co-ordinate bus schedules to pick up antibiotics is a failure in my book. The DC burbs are getting better about that sort of thing, but the further out you go, the less that's true. Case in point this weekend: a Salvation Army with no bus route in walking distance in Loudon County (aka the exurbs, or Why Did You Move Here Again?).

Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.Now, if I got a new job downtown working normal business hours, we'd go from 120 miles/week on the car down to 20-30 miles/week. And I would be very happy.

Good luck with that!