A few weeks ago my shift at work changed from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. MST to 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. MST. One of the things I noticed is that traffic has become lighter in Colorado Springs. For example I drove to therapy on Tuesday and the commute was a little less than 14 minutes each way when it usually is about fifteen minutes and maaaybe a hair more depending on how things are going on Boulder.
For those of you playing along at home, Colorado Springs utilities has been digging up Boulder and turned it into a one lane street. Once you're down by the Olympic complex and Memorial Hospital it's back to two lanes. Either way traffic was really light despite the construction.
At the moment I'm trying to be reasonable saying fewer people are driving due to $100/barrel for oil. On the lighter side I'm thinking there are fewer people who wake up at six in the morning and have to be at work by seven o'clock. Maybe I've been inordinately fortunate with my commutes.
Am I the only one who has noticed traffic has gone down? Of course understand that Colorado Springs is hardly a toddling town despite it being home to half a million citizens, native, naturalized and otherwise.
In the past I've been assured by parties who will remain nameless that this is patently impossible considering the way plumbing works in modern society.
Anyway it freaks me out a bit.
I must say that it can be a bear to read, moreso considering the fact that I always try to read a chapter a day during lunch. Either my recent lack of sleep has been adversely affecting me or sometimes having to sound out entire passages to puzzle out the Scottish accent phonetics makes me have to take a fucking nap.
Naps are good and I had a particularly fine nap in my car because it was getting cold (21°) and snow was starting to fall around 1 p.m. mountain standard time. Yet it disappoints me because I could be reading more!
At home I've begun reading Mr. Banks's newest novel Matter. Again it's pretty much a chapter or two at night. I've been experimenting with my night time reading by saving my place for the next time. When it's bedtime again and I'm in the middle of a chapter I begin reading the chapter all over again for comprehension and to get the most out of the book. I tend to read really fast, not as quickly as some people, and I tend to miss stuff because I am careless.
Once I finish the former novel I think I'm going to see about acquiring lots of anthologies. Anthologies are best suited for recreational reading during lunch because I can do a story a day. Bad thing about anthologies, especially when it comes to science fiction, is the fact there's a lot of overlap. Nowadays when I go to a book store I check the table of contents and if half the stories have already been read by me then I'll pass on it.
When I woke at 1:54 p.m. I knew that I had dreamt but everything about the dream happened so fucking fast as if I watched a movie on 8x fast forward. Absolutely nothing registered except for the fact that I did have a dream.
