Morning Routine

I decided to write about me a bit more.  I’ve been writing my likes and opinions but I haven’t said much about myself.  And in the future I will most likely be the same.  I will not open up too much.  But I’ve always thought that you can tell a lot about a person by their morning routine.  That’s the time of day where everyone shows their true priorities. I’ll let you know more about me by writing about my routine.  It’s not glamorous, so if you’re looking for an action/adventure you going to have to wait till I add some short stories to the mix.  My typical morning starts at varied times but the events all happen in this order every day.

There’s always a  shower involved.  Then shave – every other day (I have to check every day just to remember what day it is) . Grab a shirt and a pair of pants.  Then I’m out the door.  There’s usually a podcast or an audio book involved on  the walk to the bus. I get to the bus terminal and the bus leaves plus or minus a minute after I get there.  It sucks on the minus days.  No comments please that if I leave 5 minutes earlier I can stop those days.  I’ve told myself every time it happens and I just don’t listen.

The bus takes 20-25 minutes to get to work.  That’s a couple chapters or half a podcast.  Getting off the bus I have the choice to take the LRT or walk.  I walk 95% of the time, but there are the rainy days, the I’m late days, the lazy days.

When I get to work another choice is presented.  There’s a Tim Hortons at the base of the building I work in.  It’s very busy, but what Tim Hortons isn’t’ busy?  The choice is stand in the line now or stand in the line later.  The line’s are huge, but these downtown Tim Horton’s workers are a different breed.  They’re ex-military. Trained merc’s there to do the job and get out alive.  Seriously it’s a precision machine in there.  I have nightmares of a tiny Asian ladies yelling “Next PLEASE!” over and over and the people standing in the front of the line are not responding to the hail.  There are peaks and valleys and if you find a valley you can be in and outta there in 30 seconds.  Peaks are in the upwards of 15 minutes.

I weigh any decision I make heavily on the length of that line. The outcome of the choice tells me if I go work right away or grab a bagel (12 grain bagel toasted with plain cream cheese) and a coffee (double-double).  If I don’t get my fix right away – don’t worry it just happens later.

Then when I get to my desk I click on my iGoolge.  I have it layed out just the way I like it.  Weather top left corner. Gmail top middle.  Quotes of the Day top right. I’ll give you a moment to analyze that before I list the rest.  Speaking of the rest it’s populated with: Fark, Slashdot, SciFi Wire and PopCandy.  There is the obligatory World News section at the bottom, just in case something worldly happens during the day.  I’d hate to not know about Michael Jackson’s death not within the hour of it happening.  Twitter has recently move smack dab in the middle of the page, but that’s a blog post in itself.

I sacn the page, address anything that needs addressing then start work.  That’s my routine.  I’d analyze my own but I don’t think I would give an unbiased answer.  I think my iGoogle page says more about me actually.  Maybe I will have to update my saying to: you can tell a lot about a person by their iGoogle page.