The gas truck explosion that took out a section of Oakland's I-580 happened early Monday morning, but it wasn't until yesterday that I got to expirience the fun of the new commute (story). Normally I don't commute to work, I live less that a mile from where I work so I walk, ride my awesome bike or if I'm feeling crappy or lazy then I might drive. However, I recently got a small promotion at work and so now being a part of the "management team" I needed to go to a special training in the South/East Bay. Living in the North Bay the drive is normally an hour and fourty five minutes to two hours, but yesterday it took me no less than three hours. So all in all a fun five hour commute (the drive back wasn't during rush hour.)
To add insult to injury because I was going all the way down to the Oakland area, Tim asked if I could run a small errand to my favorite of all places: The Emeryville Ikea. We decided to combine all of our Ikea bookshelves into one big stair stepping kind of bookshelf unit which we realized we were 2 shelves short of achieving so I grudgingly went (I hate Ikea, it sounds like a good idea in theory but there are so many choices many of which are partical board and then everyone has the exact same ugly furiture) only to find they were out of one of the shelves I needed. Meaning we get to return at some point to pick up one shelf!
Today is a new day, and a day I have off so I'm going to clean and sit in the sun and read and do something else fun. Hooray for days off!
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