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Scott didn’t end up going grocery shopping until some time after 8:00 last night. That meant that he couldn’t pick up the prescription I had waiting. We also discovered this morning that we are out of a bunch of things that I didn’t know to put on the list. Scott had to improvise heavily to make waffles this morning because we are out of Jiffy mix and out of almond milk.

We stayed up past 11:00, watching Pitch Perfect. We didn’t end up staying up until the end (it was on TV rather than a DVD). Our main takeaway from the movie is that we want to try listening to the soundtrack. Scott and I got to bed around midnight and turned off the light around 1:00. I slept until about 10:00. I’d have liked to sleep longer, but Cordelia wasn’t happy about the idea.

There’s snow on the ground right now, not a lot but enough that I’m really glad Cordelia doesn’t need to go out in it. I expect that the snow yesterday made the Hash Bash on central campus interesting. I doubt anything would thin the crowds, but who knows?

I wrote 602 words yesterday. Naturally, it wasn’t on one of the projects that I’ve promised to finish. Still, 602 words. I’m not sure I’ll work on the Narnia project at all this week because of Cordelia being home all the time, but who knows? Right now, I just want to write whatever comes to me.

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Okay, I think I’ve got some accurate-ish numbers about the city bus going to the three big high schools in town. The trip to Skyline, the school we’re zoned for, will take the longest and, depending on time of day, may require two transfers. This is the route I’m iffiest on because Google maps proved to be really horrible at ride planning on our bus system when I started to look at getting to Huron.

It basically never considered that we could take an outbound #1 or #2 bus and suggested some really ridiculous methods of getting from our house to Huron. It seemed to think that the only way we could catch the #22 was by going out to the Meijer’s on Carpenter Road, and the #3, the route they suggested, doesn’t actually go there. The #5 does, but it takes more than half an hour on its way. Other suggestions involved walks that Google thought would take more than half an hour.

I threw up my hands and gave up on Google maps and their ride planner when it came to Huron. I just looked at the #22 and figured out where it intersects with the #2 and the #1. It only intersects with the #2C which runs once an hour and probably wouldn’t be feasible for getting to school in the morning. I’m not sure how long the wait would be between when the #2C arrived and when the #22 did, but the time on board buses would be about twenty five minutes. The #1 bus runs every half an hour. Again, I’m not sure about the wait to transfer. It would take eighteen minutes to get from the stop nearest us to the transfer stop and then nine minutes to get from the transfer stop to Huron.

Weirdly, Pioneer, the school that’s furthest from us as the crow flies, is the shortest bus trip of the big three. That would be the #1 inbound to the transit center, a ride of about ten minutes, then the #7 outbound to Pioneer, a ride of about seven minutes.

Community is on the inbound #1 route and so would be a trip of less than ten minutes.

Ease of travel is not going to make or break our choices about high schools, and the routes may change between now and fall of 2017, but this is at least a start.