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