MOPT update, whether you wanted to know or not.

Yesterday evening's commute was enlivened by two men at the bus stop who wanted to be my friends (in an entirely non-creepy way, I mean) and an odd little woman on the bus who kept Looking At Me Funny. I don't think I have to put up with being Looked At Funny by a woman who's wearing a red-and-black coat, a blue scarf, and a pink hat, okay? Who's she to talk?

I'm here to testify that bus passengers do, indeed, get weirder after dark.

Yesterday's evening commute was punctuated, at the end, by a bus running 20 minutes late. I'm given to understand that in good weather, RTD runs largely like clockwork; (I know there should be some kind of punctuation there, but I'm not certain which bit. I haven't semi-coloned in a while, so I'm putting one in. Feel free to mentally substitute whatever should have appeared.) but in bad weather the schedule instantly falls apart.

This, not surprisingly, annoys the riders, but it makes perfect sense to me. When the weather is bad and people are having accidents or getting stuck or just generally driving like idiots all over the roads, that's going to slow down the buses.

This morning's commute was notable for nothing at all. The bus arrived on time, got me to the station three minutes before a train appeared, a bus was waiting for me at the terminal, and I got off in exactly the right spot to swing through Starbucks and arrive at my desk at 8:25.

In other non-news, I'm alone in the office today (as I frequently am) and am not behind on or buried in any deadline-pressed projects, which is unusual for me. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself.

I have no bookkeeping to do, no reports to write or review, no surveys to format or code, no filing that needs to be done, no mass mailings to send, and no tech problems going on that I need to worry about.

Today's task list includes: Address an envelope, send an email, put 12 products in a box and ship them (already done), and proof someone else's report.

Possibly more will come to mind as I review my notes from the last couple of weeks, but I really do think I'm finally winning the battle!