Commuter Day 7

Thursday August 20, 2009

AM: 56 Minutes
PM: 60 Minutes

You will notice I've missed a few days in my experiment. No I didn't take more time off for ultrasounds. I had some difficulties remembering to start and stop my watch the last 2 days. Tuesday morning I completely forgot, Wednesday I remembered when I was already on the bus, and both days I started to time the afternoon commute, but forgot to stop when I got home until I had already eaten dinner. So those days will just have to be throw away days in the experiment. There will be plenty of more days to gather data to come. However I have noticed, as I've started to put together some algorithms to analyze the data, that I haven't collected any data for a Wednesday commute yet. I started my experiment on a Thursday afternoon, last Wednesday I took the day off of work, and this week I forgot to time on Wednesday. That's okay though. Once I get a few months of data, everything should average out okay.

This morning I decided to take the 7:30 bus again. I don't know why, I've just been struggling to get up early the last week or so. I almost like the 7:30 bus better because of the consistency of the drivers.

This afternoon I was paying closer attention to when I leave the office and when the bus arrives. I think I have discovered the sweet spot to get me to the bus stop at the right time to minimize my wait. I'll try it out tomorrow to see for sure. Today I left the office at 4:55 and had to wait 10 minutes at the bus stop before it showed up, and then almost another 5 minutes before it left. So I figure I could probably leave the office between 5:05 and 5:10 to be sure I get to the bus stop right before the bus shows up, or leaves.