Part 2: The Ride Home
It was pleasant. I was a bit faster on my ride home, but I also changed my route, taking into consideration high-traffic roads, inclines, and distance.
Without giving away my exact home address and work address (after all, a certain degree of anonymity is kinda nice hence my name "BrockLee") here's a Google Map of my route home.

For comparative purposes, here's a Google Map of my route to work yesterday morning.

And when I rode to work again this morning I took a slightly different route yet. Hey, I'm refining the trip and trying to figure out exactly which route is most efficient. This morning's route was definitely best so far, keeping me off major roads as much as possible. No school buses either!