Reset the alarm clock for 4:30a. Yeah, that sucked (though it’s not a huge delta from 4:55a).<\/p>\n
I had a sense that I had to be at the train station by 5:15a. Well, I was kind of right. There’s a 5:08a at Dry Creek that gets me to my office at … 5:46a. There’s a 5:23a that gets me there by 6:01a.<\/p>\n
I’m aiming to be in by 6 (esp. so I can leave promptly at 4, for the 4:06p train that gets me to the station at 4:45p. So I could do the latter. I did everything with all deliberate speed this a.m., leaving the house by 4:57a, which got me to the platform around 5:06a, with just a minute or so to spare before the train came. I don’t know that I can count on everything going that smoothly each morning (it’s usually been taking me more like 35 minutes in the morning than 25), so I’ll needing more time before I feel confident I can change the alarm clock 5-10 minutes. <\/p>\n
I could actually (given the time) aim for the 5:23, but let’s see how the 5:08 works for the nonce.<\/p>\n
Note: AM Radio on the light rail — you know, the thing that runs under high voltage lines? — maybe not so much. So, a month before KCFR shifts over to FM, huzzah.<\/p>\n
Fascinating, for the moment, to watch the highway and industrial backyards of Denver taking the trip up here, which went far faster than I’d expected, subjectively.<\/p>\n
Did some news browsing off my mobile. That worked nicely. Now I need to (a) improve my own blog’s mobile interface, and (b) look into (again) a mobile blogging solution for MT.<\/p>\n
Office is dead this time of morning.<\/p>\n
Printers automagically showed up when I logged in. Annoyingly enough, all <\/em>of them show up (a couple of dozen), which means I’ll have to sift through them each day as I usually shift my default to my home computer when I get home. I have a printer very convenient to me, but it’s a little LaserJet.<\/p>\n Found my tea, mug, and the break room.<\/p>\n Need to figure out color printing and scanning to email from the equipment here.<\/p>\n Phone has some nice features (including a headset button, which powers my headset just fine), but doesn’t seem to have a speed dial function (with this model) nor a button to roll calls over to voice mail. Pity.<\/p>\n Time for more tea, and back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reset the alarm clock for 4:30a. Yeah, that sucked (though it’s not a huge delta from 4:55a). 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