A Taste of a Morning Commute

Last night I spent the night in Chestermere. I had to see "Must See TV" Thursday - Smallville, Survivor and CSI (the original). Smallville and CSI were dark but had some interesting turns to it. This is a new season of Survivor so I am just getting into it. As some of you know, when my lease is up in March I will be moving out to Chestermere temporarily until the house is ready to be moved in. So last night I used it as a test guide for the morning commute. It wasn't that bad, and that is probably due to the fact that I left Chestermere at 6am - the beginning of rush hour traffic. I got to the other end of town by 6:25am. I think this is really good as Chestermere (NE)is past city limits east of Calgary and Foothills is NW heading out to Banff. So with the offsite parking that I would have to do, I will still be able to keep my 7am start time at Foothills. Talking with a coworker who lives up the street of where I will be living, tells me that the drive to the Foothills is about 20 minutes. So not much difference really. It hasn't been confirmed yet, but I might be able to code at Stratmore Hospital only a 15 min drive east of Chestermere - absolutely no traffic lights until you hit the town. Sleeping in a new place compared to your old one is something to get used to. At my apt have basically gotten used to the ambulance & firetruck sirens, and STARS air ambulance flying over the building and the basic traffic noise you get living on the TransCanada. Out in Chestermere, you still get the TransCanada traffic, but you also have silence. This morning (around 2:30am), the house was totally silent, you could hear a pin drop. The only noise you hear is the call of the coyotes across the Chestermere Lake going at it for about 20 minutes. Okay - admittingly felt a brief sense of panic. It was unnerving as I am not use to that noise...yet.