Originally Posted by
tjspiel
I'm not sure I follow your question. Are you saying that by biking you don't care as much or that you find your arrival times to be more consistent?
Both.
We have "core hours" of 10 - 4, and so long as people are here between these ( when meetings are scheduled ), it isn't very important when people come or go. We need to be here for eight hours, and to be productive. I like to come in between 8 and 8:30, which balances my "not a morning person" -ness against my desire to get out at a reasonable time. When I used to drive, I would let things like freeway traffic stress me out.
I usually make it here at the same time whether I drive or cycle, but trying to make that happen in a car is much more stressful. Occasionally, traffic is especially foul, and I would come in ten minutes later than I planned. On the bike, I get up a little earlier than normal ( because the commute is up hill ) and know I have some time to spare; I also know that traffic and parking issues can't slow me down much. So I don't stress about making it in on time.