@58b2274a @74c65fe5.
On my last day of work, before retiring, I calculated that in the course of commuting for 30 years to workplaces in Palo Alto and Santa Clara, I traveled 780,000 miles on Interstate 280.
780,000 miles!
That's like making a trip to the moon, and back again, and then returning to the moon. Plus a couple of orbits on each end.
Time-wise (at 2.5 hours a day), if you put all that commute time together into one block, it adds up to 2 solid years of my life wasted on Interstate 280.
A chunk of that was in a 2 or 3 person carpool. But still, my carbon footprint is unforgivably huge. And the wear and tear on my cars and body... ugh.
@a3e2a07b yeah. when I was driving to Mountain View, I wasn't doing much better. mind you, my employer had an office in SF. but i was told i hadn't earned the privilege of working there. so i quit.
now they want me as a client. ha! let's see you earn the privilege.
@58b2274a The work-from-home/work-in-the-office pendulum has swung back and forth several times since the 1990s. I expect it will continue swinging for a while still.
@a3e2a07b @58b2274a I’m still waiting for the swinging-in-the-office pendulum tbqh.
@a3e2a07b @58b2274a (as a boring monogamous married person I must point out that this is merely a bad word play joke, and not a truthful representation of my actual desires)
@722bd124 @58b2274a Bad phones. Bad boy.
@a3e2a07b @58b2274a Bad because of the wordplay or the boring monogamy? 🤔
@722bd124 @58b2274a Bad wordplay :)
As for monogamy, statistics offers zero moral judgment when it comes to distributions, even when plotting one's number of lifetime partners. We all fall somewhere on the curve and its standard deviants.
@a3e2a07b @58b2274a For 15 years I drove each workday from Half Moon Bay to Palo Alto (30 minute commute each way), then Santa Clara (45 minutes) & finally San Jose (an hour, on a good day) going down 280.
I also commuted on 280 before moving to HMB. In total, I had 24 years of 280 commutes.
Except for the Santa Clara to San Jose part, it was always a lovely drive — but yeah, all that time & all those emissions.
I sure hope WFH becomes more of a norm.
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