May I suggest, that if it is 55 miles from home to work, that you either
need a different work place or a different home place?
I have, over the past 22 years moved my office about 5 times. Each time,
it was closer to home. Moving our home did not make sense as my wife's
job is close to the house. That was one of the reasons we bought the
house 29 years ago. She works at the University of Manitoba and we live
essentially on the edge of the University property. There are 3 houses
between ours and the edge of the endowment lands. Now I am about as
close to home as she is. She says on a good day, it takes her 7 minutes
from the parking lot at work to our garage. And yes, she probably could
walk it and once upon a time she did but then we had kids etc and now we
have a dog and she goes home every day to let him out.
If the hospital accross the street was not too tall and directly in the
way, I could see my house from my colleague's office. He is on the front
of the building and I am along the northwest side.
In any event, you must get the picture. I cannot imagine travelling that
far every day. I like to drive and I make a dozen trips to the lake each
summer (175 miles each way) from May through October but I don't want to
spend my life in the car. If you work a normal day, it must also make
for a long day for you. I for one am getting old and find it harder to
accomplish things in the evening. Add an hour or more of travel time
after work into the equation and about all I will be good for after
supper will be another glass of wine and then bed.
Randy
On 29/11/2010 4:31 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
Finally the saga of the 190D seems to be winding down. I drove it the 55 miles
to work today with very little drama. The front end seems loose so I sent a
note to Rusty for the outer and center tie rods and damper. I forgot the idler
arm but I can get that locally (Moog no less) for the same money. I figure I'll
do it now and just not worry about it.
A couple little things, traffic was really heavy and it wanted to overheat, my
'85 190D did exactly the same so I dunno, it seems unlikely they both had bad
fan clutches, I'll need to investigate... Its also got a rattle that I'll make
another post about in a sec.
Anyway I'm well pleased, I've had the thing almost a year, time to start
rolling some miles on!
-Curt
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