- Check bus arrival times, see that bus closest to my house is due... NOW.
- Sprint out door.
- Sprint down the long block, catch bus.
- Get off bus downtown, use Car2Go membership to drive Smart Car rest of way to office (just for fun).
- Get to office ready to set up ergonomically appropriate desk and monitors.
- Discover that only one monitor has arrived (no desk), without the VESA mount adapter needed to put it on my monitor stand.
- Unable to do any physical setup, go to sit on couch in lobby area.
- Realize that I left my RSA token at home, 2.8 miles away.
- Discover that wifi is not working. (RSA token wouldn't have helped anyway.)
- Pack up, go back outside to the Car2Go Smart Car I parked directly in front of the office just 20 minutes earlier. RFID reader pauses, then displays message
NO CONNECTION / Car temporarily not available for rental - Walk around the corner to see several cars parked across the street from Car2Go's Portland office.
- First car's RFID reader shows status message
OUT OF ORDER / service teams have been notified. - Second car's RFID reader shows status message
VEHICLE IN USE - Third car's RFID reader successfully unlocks car just as coworker walks by. Say hello.
- First car's RFID reader shows status message
- Drive home.
- Arriving home, find that contractors are at the house, preparing to do some work. (They must've contacted my neighbor and co-owner, who didn't mention anything to us.) [EDIT: apparently I did have at least a date for contractor work, but none of us put it in our shared calendar because we didn't realize they'd need access inside the house.] Herd cats around (on both sides of duplex!), then finally sit down and get ready to work.
Total time elapsed between "leaving for work" and "at work": 90 minutes
Net physical displacement: 30 feet northwest, 8 feet down
Effective speed: 0.005 MPH
That sounds like it should be a short movie :P