My new assignment is at the other side of town, and on a good day it takes me 50 minutes to get there. With all the train troubles recently, it’s often been over an hour. Twice a day. I’m spending up to 10 hours a week on commuting. There have been good reasons to be in the office during this first month but I really don’t want to live like this forever.

Plus it’s not even smooth and pleasant commute. The change at Stockholm City is a crowded walk through multiple corridors and up several stairs. And then we get extras like today, with “slippery tracks”. That usually means leaves or snow, neither of which can really happen in April, so I’m guessing a chemical spill of some sort.