Obviously the best way to stop stressing is to start up a new, completely unrelated task. You’ll definitely finish this other task and carry that momentum forward to finish the original task. Rinse and repeat as many times as necessary.
I’m so used to the car being warmed up (auto start) I forget how long it used to take when I did it the old fashioned way. A lot more elbow grease involved without the warm air circulating inside.
The problem is not snow, it’s the ice that forms on the windscreen during the night, because of the sub-zero temperatures. It takes time to scrape it off, and if you’re late, you do the bare minimum to see where you are going, hoping your car will heat up and melt the rest before you crash!
The tasks are never complete. It is an illusion that you can complete all the tasks, while actually you can’t. That’s what creates the stress. Understanding that it is an illusion can help removing the stress
One morning around 2014 I got up early, scrapped the ice off my windshield, ran the defrost so I could see clearly out of the window (this was not the norm for me back then) and promptly slid down a 2-3 ft hill (I’m using hill VERY loosely here) less than 200 yards from my front door into a small fence going like maybe 2 miles per hour because the apartment complex hadn’t had the parking lot salted the night before or plowed that morning. Still got to work on time though, though the body shop bill was about $350 for the repairs.
For YEARS my dream was to own a home mainly for the garage so I’d never have to scape my windshield again.
Haha. Yeah you’re like a lot of my neighbors. Fill your garage with shit you don’t need so it looks tacky as fuck and park your car in the street to make sure you’re in other people’s way.
Bro if I’m late, I just have to accept it. I tell my work people that I’ll be late and they’re usually fine with it as long as I say something and show up.
I know that not all work places are as understanding as this, but don’t be stupid if you’re late. You’ll still get there, just not on time.
Just this morning I was an hour late. I spend most of my weekends helping my parents a few hours away, so have a 4am alarm set for Monday mornings to get up, shower, and head to work.
Because of the Holiday, my first day of work this week was a Tuesday, so my 4am alarm didn’t go off and I got up at 5.
I got up, showered, sent a text to the team that I’d screwed up, and went to work.
Yeah, I could’ve driven 100mph on country roads and blown through a few red lights in the middle of nowhere near my parents’ place. But I also could’ve died trying that shit. Instead I just drove normal, got to work late, and it wasn’t a big deal.
I get that not everyone works in an environment where getting in late isn’t a big deal. But a lot more people do than realize it. Most workplaces can be flexible, and will be when it matters. If they’re assholes about it when they don’t need to be - look for somewhere better.
The entire top/active threads are just the L4 bot (and 2 or 3 others) posting every article from a dozen online rags and the summary bot “participating.” Lemmy is still a desert of participation fluffed with 3 people who use it as their personal rss feed via bots.
It seems to finally be consistently below freezing in southern Wisconsin. We had some snow in November that made me hopeful but yet another year with little snow until the new year
I spent the week after Christmas at the top of Michigan’s upper peninsula. I was close enough to get Welcome to Canada messages on my phone but I don’t have a current passport so I couldn’t visit. Which is bullshit by the way, I’ve been there with just my DL many times.
But there was no snow. It rained several days. WTF?!
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