An optical deception

[mtbc]

I haven't yet settled on how to use my commute on in-office days. For a workday it totals 3½h door-to-door, at least I could try to use the inter-city segment well. One challenge is that I don't want to add much weight to the bag I am already carrying, especially as it has the mighty work laptop therein, and my water flask. In the meantime, the railway carriage window gets looked out of somewhat.

One morning last week, I had a surprise: I glanced up at the right moment and, in the distant cloud or fog, I could make out a row of three large, white, shallow pyramids. I very much wondered something like, WTF?. Ongoing observation revealed that I was seeing the towers and cables of the Queensferry Crossing, carrying the M90 toward Edinburgh. So, support for a bridge, rather than a row of pyramids.

Comments

[andrewducker]

I do love the bridges.

3 1/2 hours is a lot. How often do you have to be in?

[mtbc]

Typically, two days per week. Perhaps when I'm more established and valued I'll be able to negotiate a reduction but, in the current times, I'm just glad to have a job at all.

[andrewducker]

I guess 7 hours a week isn't too bad for commuting. And on the train you can hopefully relax a bit.

[mtbc]

Yes, the intercity part (around fifty minutes) isn't quite long enough to get "in the zone" and much done, especially with the spotty wifi, nor long enough to really invest in making it productive, but honestly for the morning trip into work it's during the train journey that I actually wake up properly, I spend half of it in kind of a daze anyway.

[thewayne]

WTF moments are always fun!

[mtbc]

They certainly help to keep life interesting.