Well, in Canada it's the kilometer marking, but close enough. I was thinking that's what...one of the truck drivers I know said. Is it sad that all my highway knowledge comes from truckers?
From where you live? Also, how are the buses in Houston? Is it viable to take public transit? Or would it require getting a car? This is one of the many ways that Texans are stupid. We feel like we have to drive everywhere. It probably comes from our rebellious history. Houston does have a bus system and I've heard from some that it's pretty decent. I've also heard that lone women should carry mace on it after dark. I'd have to really look more into it to know for sure. There's also the issue that the bus system only goes so far out and then you have to either drive or get a taxi to that location. We do have a good network of taxis and there is a devoted HOV lane on all the highways for carpoolers. We do have crapload of carpoolers.
That was in my theoretical budget. I'm way too cheap to get a place on my own. :P Plus, staying up talking or whatever and getting no sleep is all part of the con experience, right? Yay for cheap! Now that I have the employee discount I've been checking out what cities have a LaQuinta to see where I could go for cheaper. You mean there are people who actually sleep at cons? I occasionally pass out, but never just sleep! Dude, all those conversations that we've started but never finished because the e-mails or whatever got too long...we could actually finish those!
Ahh, it was helpful once I got a converstion program to put all those numbers into celcius. I can get most American units of measure, inches, feet, no problem. I have no idea why Americans decided that Fahrenheit was a better system. Okay, I do know (because we're contrary and wanna be different and special and just ended up being special ed), but it was still a stupid idea. If I ever had a chance to use Celsius system, I'd probably switch to it, but I've never gotten the conversions straight in my head. 100's is hot, but only excessive when it gets over 101 (to me, anyway). Your body temp is normally 98.6 and that's just two degrees above. 32 and below is freezing. The thing that'll get you in this part of the state is the bloody humidity. A vast majority of our weather systems are coming off the Gulf Coast, so avg humidity is around 70%. But that's why we feel worse than some place like, say, Vegas because they have 120+ but just heat and we have 100~ but with 90% humidity...you feel like your drowning in your own sweat sometimes. It's much more stifling. Who needs a sauna when you could just go outside? As for mileage, you just get a feel for it. I'm better with distance in reference to time anyway, because this close to a major population centre, mileage can be small, but time is huge.
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Well, in Canada it's the kilometer marking, but close enough.
I was thinking that's what...one of the truck drivers I know said. Is it sad that all my highway knowledge comes from truckers?
From where you live? Also, how are the buses in Houston? Is it viable to take public transit? Or would it require getting a car?
This is one of the many ways that Texans are stupid. We feel like we have to drive everywhere. It probably comes from our rebellious history. Houston does have a bus system and I've heard from some that it's pretty decent. I've also heard that lone women should carry mace on it after dark. I'd have to really look more into it to know for sure. There's also the issue that the bus system only goes so far out and then you have to either drive or get a taxi to that location. We do have a good network of taxis and there is a devoted HOV lane on all the highways for carpoolers. We do have crapload of carpoolers.
That was in my theoretical budget. I'm way too cheap to get a place on my own. :P Plus, staying up talking or whatever and getting no sleep is all part of the con experience, right?
Yay for cheap! Now that I have the employee discount I've been checking out what cities have a LaQuinta to see where I could go for cheaper. You mean there are people who actually sleep at cons? I occasionally pass out, but never just sleep! Dude, all those conversations that we've started but never finished because the e-mails or whatever got too long...we could actually finish those!
Ahh, it was helpful once I got a converstion program to put all those numbers into celcius. I can get most American units of measure, inches, feet, no problem.
I have no idea why Americans decided that Fahrenheit was a better system. Okay, I do know (because we're contrary and wanna be different and special and just ended up being special ed), but it was still a stupid idea. If I ever had a chance to use Celsius system, I'd probably switch to it, but I've never gotten the conversions straight in my head. 100's is hot, but only excessive when it gets over 101 (to me, anyway). Your body temp is normally 98.6 and that's just two degrees above. 32 and below is freezing. The thing that'll get you in this part of the state is the bloody humidity. A vast majority of our weather systems are coming off the Gulf Coast, so avg humidity is around 70%. But that's why we feel worse than some place like, say, Vegas because they have 120+ but just heat and we have 100~ but with 90% humidity...you feel like your drowning in your own sweat sometimes. It's much more stifling. Who needs a sauna when you could just go outside? As for mileage, you just get a feel for it. I'm better with distance in reference to time anyway, because this close to a major population centre, mileage can be small, but time is huge.