Rhapsodies

I admit it I’ve been putting this off for far too long. But I finally got around to getting my brand new Orca Card! Most of my delay was due to the Home office thing. Despite being a proud metro user I am even prouder pedestrian and for me the definition of walking distance is “anywhere I can get to in an hour and a half.” Because of that these days unless I’m in a hurry I really only use Metro or Sound Transit when I have to go downtown and since I don’t do that very often I’ve been more than happy to make do with paying cash. The thing is thanks to bank cards and such most of the time I’m happily cashless. I rarely have more then twenty dollars in my wallet and sometimes I tbink, somewhat ironically, that singles and change are more costly than larger denominations because you need them for the bus, and the need to have five dollars on you for a round trip gets to be a pain… and with Emerald City Comiccon coming up very soon I realized I was going to need a lot more than one round trip. To make matters worse I had forgotten to put the change for a trip into my walllet so on my way home from Georgetown I took the plunge.

It was a bit of an interesting experience trying to figure out just how many rides to put onto my card (and the deadpan expression the teller kept giving me did not me feel any smarter.) But being able to have a card just for the bus that I can recharge whenever I want is going to make life so much easier.