transit FAIL
28 September 2010 19:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jrtomFirst day of working in the Seattle office. (Normally I work in Kirkland.) This won't be something I do often, but the new team I'm on has its tech lead in Seattle, and Megan's still on maternity leave, so this is a good time to do it.
Morning: miss the bus I'd intended to take from the Renton transit center to downtown Seattle. Get misdirected by Google Maps Transit as to the number of the bus I'm supposed to be looking for once I finally arrive in downtown Seattle, and unwittingly let it escape. Arrive something like 45 minutes later than I'd intended.
Evening: miss the first bus I try to take (either it showed up early or late enough to be useless) after running up some steep hills for several blocks. Go back where I started to catch a later bus, which is itself late enough that I miss the connection to the bus going to Renton TC. Fail to realize that there's another bus I can take from the stop I'm waiting at that will go to Renton TC, and wait yet another 20 extra minutes in consequence. I'll be getting there about 45 minutes later than I'd intended, and because so much of the wait was in the bus tunnel, I couldn't get any work done (no signal). Plus I missed an event at Corwin's school.
Gaaaaaahhh.
I generally prefer taking the bus to driving when I can, but this sucked.
Morning: miss the bus I'd intended to take from the Renton transit center to downtown Seattle. Get misdirected by Google Maps Transit as to the number of the bus I'm supposed to be looking for once I finally arrive in downtown Seattle, and unwittingly let it escape. Arrive something like 45 minutes later than I'd intended.
Evening: miss the first bus I try to take (either it showed up early or late enough to be useless) after running up some steep hills for several blocks. Go back where I started to catch a later bus, which is itself late enough that I miss the connection to the bus going to Renton TC. Fail to realize that there's another bus I can take from the stop I'm waiting at that will go to Renton TC, and wait yet another 20 extra minutes in consequence. I'll be getting there about 45 minutes later than I'd intended, and because so much of the wait was in the bus tunnel, I couldn't get any work done (no signal). Plus I missed an event at Corwin's school.
Gaaaaaahhh.
I generally prefer taking the bus to driving when I can, but this sucked.
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Date: 29 September 2010 03:47 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 29 September 2010 17:10 (UTC)I am now feeling somewhat guilty because I drove in today instead...and there were hardly any slowdowns at all. If that turns out to be typical, I'm going to have to work harder at being virtuous on those days I'm in Seattle: it's easy to decide to take the bus in to Kirkland when I'm traveling during rush hour because the traffic on that side of the lake is generally bad.
Really looking forward to moving closer to work...in a year or two. :P