commute |kəˈmyoōt|
verb
1 [ intrans. ] travel some distance between one’s home and place of work on a regular basis : she commuted from Westport in to Grand Central Station.

Well tonight tops my commuter fun-list. I know that things can get crazy, and I’ve had one day prior to today where CA-17 was closed (as opposed to slow) due to a major accident, however today tops all previous days in my brief commuter experience for sheer number of incidents.

I really had a hard time believing that I was seeing all the carnage that I was.

Here’s the official 511.org version of my commute (by the time I got home). The site has left out an accident on the brief section of CA-237 that I have to take from the office to CA-85 S.

That makes for 6 (SIX!) accidents on my way home. Each causing significant traffic backup.
Yikes! <sarcasm> I cannot wait for September when all the people on summer vacation are driving too! </sarcasm>

I have been keenly aware of the transition to a new bank. This awareness has been helped by my experience at a local bank. For the longest time, the drive through ATM was out of envelopes. Then they upgraded it to a new ‘envelope-free’ model. The improved model claims better faster service. Ok great. Now I don’t have to take my helmet off just to lick the envelope seal.

I start to process the deposit, it asks me if it is cash or cheque. I respond cheque.

Epic fail. The machine refuses my deposit because I said it was a cheque. Read the signage though. Sigh. Inside I go to see a teller. They are nice and all, but the queue is long.