Stupid me, stupid me, stupid me! I broke Rule 47. I had a meeting at 5:30 and sure enough the damn thing continued until 6:30. So instead of missing all my bus connections on time, I missed them much later and got home way too late to be any help to the wife and too late to spend some fun time with the kids, though they didn't exactly rush away from the computers to greet me.

It's very frustrating. I *FINALLY* get a job, a great job, and the damn commute is going to kill me. I plan to check into carpooling or something, anything to speed up the commute.

But this is LA and in going across the Valley there are no shortcuts. The only commute worse would be over the hill to the Westside. My neighbor does that and how she keeps her sanity is beyond me.

But for you Dear Readers learn from this. NEVER BREAK RULE 47!