Cheryl > wrote:

>"blake murphy" > wrote in message

>> yep. in many ways, easy living for americans is going to
>> become a thing of the past.

Yes, and I feel really sorry for the next generation.

> I see a lot more mass transit use in my future. Either that
> or more telecommuting. A one-hour one-way drive on a normal
> day translates into 2 hours on mass transit. 4 hours just to
> get to and from work is going to suck.

I do that one or two days a week. It's not so bad if you are
Zen about it. Read, listen to music, maybe even scribble out
some work-related notes in a notebook in my case. If you
can download a ton of email or Google/Yahoo news onto a laptop,
even better.

I'm even figuring out how to load novels from Project Gutenberg
onto my phone. (They load fine, and the fonts/appearance are good,
but I can't yet scroll through all of them.. they get truncated
somehow. But I'll get that one solved.)

But a big negative is the added 4 hours of total physical inactivity
each day I do this.

Steve