I think I've exhausted the patience of the only person or two who ever evinced the slightest interest in my new Mass Transit Adventures. But I still have more thoughts.

I am working, but it's boring work (data entry) and a large part of my brain is pondering things like bringing a week's supply of yogurt into the office so I don't have to carry two meals in every day. Maybe even bringing sandwich stuff to keeping the refrigerator, for lunch on the days when I Mass Transit to the office? (Or figuring out how to pack two meals and a travel coffee mug in a smaller space.

("You could eat breakfast at home," I hear you suggesting.

"No," I reply. "I couldn't. It's taken me three years of constant effort to learn to eat 'the most important meal of the day' and I'm certainly not up to facing food at some ungodly hour like 7 a.m.")

I finally got the RTD site to disgorge a schedule for the 27 bus!

I ride it both ways. I pick it up on the corner by my apartment in the morning, at 7:35. A bit earlier than I'm accustomed to leaving for work, but not impossible.

And I catch it again in the evening, at either 5:25 or 5:52, but it doesn't leave from the parking lot of the light rail. I have to go across and down the street to catch it. I'm not sure about that part. It's a thing I'd do in the spring or summer without a second thought, but the idea of crossing that particular street after dark? I'm not excited about it. Streetlights are rare, and the traffic is heavy.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

After T-Rex finished rampaging through that intersection, I noticed they'd put in a walk signal at the corner with the interstate on- and off-ramps. I was wondering why since it's not really the kind of intersection that attracts pedestrians (beyond the odd panhandler). Now I've figured out that that's where they want light rail people to cross that street! (It takes me a while sometimes....) They want us to walk down that block, wait for the light, and then walk back up four blocks to the nearest bus stop. On people's yards, I might add, since I have no memory of there being a sidewalk there.

Mass Transiting is many things, but convenient doesn't seem to be one of them.

That means the 5:52 bus, of course. No way I can leave my office at 5:00 and be at that bus stop by 5:25.

I'm sorry to go on and on about this. Once I get it figured out it will be no problem. It's just a puzzle trying to work out the timing before I do it.

Tomorrow I'm riding the 27 bus in, though. I'm meeting the R.C. downtown for a party tomorrow evening and it will be her problem to get me home. :)