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? I'm not surprised it was a trucker. I'm constantly surprised by the amount of people who don't know what the numbers stand for. *rolls eyes*
This is one of the many ways that Texans are stupid. We feel like we have to drive everywhere. God, it's not just you. Most of North America is going the route. Ottawa doesn't have stellar public transit, and I so wouldn't be able to bus to work from where I am now. Ottawa is too much a rural city, trying to get buses to all the corners is a huge waste. That's one thing I miss about China, they have *awesome* public transit, because they really don't want people owning cars, there's not enough room.
I've also heard that lone women should carry mace on it after dark. Oh god, if I do move here, you're really going to have to keep an eye on me for things like that. I've never lived anywhere were I fear anything more than slipping on the ice and getting stranded. Even in China it wasn't really scary, hell the one time we were mugged, we left with the purse, and he went running for his life (I was going to punch him and it scared him off, I somehow doubt that will work here).
You mean there are people who actually sleep at cons? *blushes* Actually, the only two cons I've gone to I got a decent amount of sleep. I was staying at my sister's, not at a hotel, and the last one was with my younger cousin Nick, so there just wasn't that much fangirling going on. Although, to be fair, Nick's a great sport, and can keep up with my fangirling when he wants to.
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! That'll be awesome! It'll be so nice to talk to you in person. I never did end up calling you when I did that RL meme eons ago.
Okay, I do know (because we're contrary and wanna be different and special and just ended up being special ed) Ah ha ha, that made me laugh. American's as a whole can be so funny. Some things just can *not* be traditional, whereas other things, no way in *hell* are they going to change. And the metric system is just so much *easier*. I mean, want to convert 10mm to cm? 1cm. Base 10, doesn't get much easier. Whereas, who the hell wants to deal with converting things between feet and inches and miles and yards or whatever the crap. You lose accuracy if only because of the decimals.
I know the general idea of temp in F. I know 100 is hot but not dangerously so. I know that when people complain about the temperature being in the 20s isn't because it's cold (although, with the way I've heard some people complain about it, I thought it was a lot lower than it really is.
The thing that'll get you in this part of the state is the bloody humidity. Oh god, I was hoping that the weather where you live is one of those "hot but dry" places. Ottawa gets super muggy too. I have trouble breathing in the summer sometimes, since I have asthma. I think if I do end up going, I'm going to have to stay less than a year, and skip the summer. Or else devote a lot of my paycheck to air conditioning. I somehow doubt that it'll be as inexpensive where ever I end up living as it is in this house (we have a ground source heat pump, and electricity isn't that expensive here).
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. Yeah, I'm bad at dealing with distances, if you're giving me directions, it's sooo much better to say "You;ll be on this road for about 15-20 minutes rather than saying it'll be 20kms, because I will spend my entire time looking for my turn, because I just can't judge distance like that.
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I'm not surprised it was a trucker. I'm constantly surprised by the amount of people who don't know what the numbers stand for. *rolls eyes*
This is one of the many ways that Texans are stupid. We feel like we have to drive everywhere.
God, it's not just you. Most of North America is going the route. Ottawa doesn't have stellar public transit, and I so wouldn't be able to bus to work from where I am now. Ottawa is too much a rural city, trying to get buses to all the corners is a huge waste. That's one thing I miss about China, they have *awesome* public transit, because they really don't want people owning cars, there's not enough room.
I've also heard that lone women should carry mace on it after dark.
Oh god, if I do move here, you're really going to have to keep an eye on me for things like that. I've never lived anywhere were I fear anything more than slipping on the ice and getting stranded. Even in China it wasn't really scary, hell the one time we were mugged, we left with the purse, and he went running for his life (I was going to punch him and it scared him off, I somehow doubt that will work here).
You mean there are people who actually sleep at cons?
*blushes*
Actually, the only two cons I've gone to I got a decent amount of sleep. I was staying at my sister's, not at a hotel, and the last one was with my younger cousin Nick, so there just wasn't that much fangirling going on. Although, to be fair, Nick's a great sport, and can keep up with my fangirling when he wants to.
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!
That'll be awesome! It'll be so nice to talk to you in person. I never did end up calling you when I did that RL meme eons ago.
Okay, I do know (because we're contrary and wanna be different and special and just ended up being special ed)
Ah ha ha, that made me laugh. American's as a whole can be so funny. Some things just can *not* be traditional, whereas other things, no way in *hell* are they going to change. And the metric system is just so much *easier*. I mean, want to convert 10mm to cm? 1cm. Base 10, doesn't get much easier. Whereas, who the hell wants to deal with converting things between feet and inches and miles and yards or whatever the crap. You lose accuracy if only because of the decimals.
I know the general idea of temp in F. I know 100 is hot but not dangerously so. I know that when people complain about the temperature being in the 20s isn't because it's cold (although, with the way I've heard some people complain about it, I thought it was a lot lower than it really is.
The thing that'll get you in this part of the state is the bloody humidity.
Oh god, I was hoping that the weather where you live is one of those "hot but dry" places. Ottawa gets super muggy too. I have trouble breathing in the summer sometimes, since I have asthma. I think if I do end up going, I'm going to have to stay less than a year, and skip the summer. Or else devote a lot of my paycheck to air conditioning. I somehow doubt that it'll be as inexpensive where ever I end up living as it is in this house (we have a ground source heat pump, and electricity isn't that expensive here).
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.
Yeah, I'm bad at dealing with distances, if you're giving me directions, it's sooo much better to say "You;ll be on this road for about 15-20 minutes rather than saying it'll be 20kms, because I will spend my entire time looking for my turn, because I just can't judge distance like that.