2 posts tagged “commuting”
This morning everything seemed to be conspiring to make me a little late leaving the house. I'd forgotten my mobile phone, then my ultrasound referral, I've left a light on.
I ended up missing my normal train by a few minutes. Would I drive down to Blaxland at speed, hoping to overtake that train and board it there? Nah, I could't be arsed - especially when there was a good chance I wouldn't catch it by Blaxland anyways.
I resigned myself to waiting another 15 minutes at Faulconbridge and being 10 minutes late for work.
I was very surprised when an eastbound train approached when I'd been waiting on the platform for less than a minute, The stationmaster told me that was the train I'd thought I'd missed - it was running late. The train I had actually missed was the next one running early.
So now I'm on a pleasantly empty train. It's making good time as it skips the smaller stops as it tries make up lost time.
If I hadn't been running late, I would have been a crowded train having a fairly miserable journey. That's happening many times before. Today I managed to find the silver lining in today's train schedule fuckups.
I have a new toy. No, it's not a toy, it's a practical thing which
I've been needing for quite a while. Well, whatever it is, I'm happy so
far.
My life is blessed and cursed by the fact that I live in the
beautiful Blue Mountains and have a job which I like which is a two
hour trip away in Sydney.
Ever since I moved to the Blue Mountains and started this arduous 4
hour each day commute, my blogging and other writing has suffered. I
tried a paper journal, but discovered that I loathe transcribing my
messing handwriting in to plain old text. It just didn't work.
So I've got a new pda with a fold-up keyboard which enables me to
type during the hours that I'm sitting on a train. A laptop would have
been nice, but that was out of my budget plus I find that laptops can
be too bulky and nerve-wracking to carry around. Here's to drafting
blog posts and Vox posts and other writing on the train.
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