Datajunkie: I mostly lurk on here, but I'm sorry your commute has turned in to such a painfest!
For my participation in the forum...
My commute was beautiful, it was only 75 degrees or so and cloudy so I took my time. Stopped for coffee, took the long way to work from the coffee shop. I have hypothesized that the ability of squirrels to predict the motion of an object is not genetic, or the gene pool would have been cleared of squirrels that run in the street, stop, turn around, and run directly in front of me. Happens every squirrel generation.