One of the many advantages to self-employment and solo practice is the flex time that allows me to avoid rush hour and thus tolerate San Diego. What I lose in stable income is more than made up for in not paying a therapist and the costs associated with road rage criminal defense.

Occassionally I have to get out early. Breakfast meetings, or even just early work to allow other things to be done during the day. Today I had to run around early to accomodate a last minute visit to L.A. this afternoon.

Couldn’t have picked as worse day. Drizzle was confusing the local commuters who couldn’t remember how to operate their windshield wipers. Two major north-south freeways (5 and 805) were closed due to a downed power line where the merge (between home and office). People who normally have trouble counting to ‘two cars per green’ to get on the freeway were now having to navigate detours and think about alternate routes. Many of these pre-caffeinated slugs merely stopped their cars in intersections to stare in amazement at their wiper blades going back and forth (at least those who got them running).

Sometimes I wonder when California is going to require drivers to actually demonstrate skills before licensing them to operate deadly weapons on the road. I freely admit that of the four states and two countries that have licensed me to drive since I turned 16, none has bothered to require me to show any driving skills whatsoever during those 23 years. Something’s just wrong with this picture.

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