Yesterday I dredged through eight months of records to total up the miles that I've driven at work since I started. I'm terrible at tracking it. I haven't turned in a single mileage report, so I figured I'm due. Since it's supposed to be done monthly, I got chewed on, naturally, but they'll let it slide this one time. To be reasonable, I only looked at jobs where I travelled more than five miles each way, and I always estimated on the low side.
It took me an hour and a half to dig through it all, find the distance to each of the 36 different places I've driven (courtesy of the all-knowing MapQuest.com), and present it all in a convincing spreadsheet. In the end, it's probably only about half of the miles I've driven, but still, at $.30 a mile (4 cents less than the IRS would allow, I might add), 1000 miles adds up to a nice chunk of change. The endeavor worked out to about $200/hr. Not too shabby.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
-- Frost
your boss pays you for driving? does this have anything to do with Bev and truck driving?
A brother in our hall invited Robbie and I over for dinner lastnight. He was just assigned here a few months ago from MTS and his girlfriend was visiting... ha. Anyway, we've been getting to know him pretty well out in service. Lastnight, he was showing me his photo album, and I'm paging thru it, and there was a picture of YOU! He said he was in your hall in NY... His name is Tai Lei.
Posted by: h at December 23, 2003 07:06 AMHa! The "small world" strikes again. I knew Tai had come to NY from the Minneapolis vicinity, and I'd heard that he was assigned back there (by choice), but with the size of the city and all, I didn't expect he'd end up in your congo. Coolness. That's the second time that's happened with him. Before he came to Bethel, he was good friends with a brother I was friends with in Sioux Falls. How does he do it?
If you hadn't already heard the story, I understand a brother at Bethel had predicted when Tai went to MTS that he would end up staying with a family that had a cute daughter who was a physical therapist. Sure. Right. Never happens. You know the rest of the story ...
Posted by: dan at December 23, 2003 05:47 PMVery nice site. Keep up the good work.
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