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About three months ago, I started to make a three-hour round-trip commute to work five days a week.
Here are 10 of the most important ones.
Theres a podcast for anything and everything.
Are you into board games?
Are you into true crime stories?
Are you into sports, but you wish analysts were a tad more intellectual?
There’sa podcastfor that, too.
Siri makes a great DJ.
The new Siri is amazing when combined with Apple Music and the Apple Watch.
All you have to do is say, Hey Siri, play… and she’ll handle the rest.
Want to know what the number one song was the day you were born?
Just ask, because Siri has got that shizz on standby.
BTW, my birthday song is “Jump” ** by Van Halen.
Lumbar support is a non-negotiable when you drive so much.
About a month into my new commute, I started experiencing excruciating pain in my back and right leg.
Turns out I’d slipped a disc.
Did the commute cause it to slip?
Did the commute slip it quicker?
It forces you into much betterposture, which helps to relieve the pain.
I carry mine around like a kid with his favorite stuffy.
Long commutes come with legit fuel rewards.
Its all about the cruise control.
Cruise control reduces my driving fatigue and keeps me from getting nabbed by the popo.
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6.
ESPN streams all of their live radio programming.
I am a walking encyclopedia of football knowledgeboth college and proall thanks to ESPN Radio.
Now I spend my mornings with “Mike & Mike.”
I need to make my own coffee.
SMH, that sh*t is expensive.
The GPS app Waze is bae.
Waze, powered by Google, goes beyond just giving you directions.
It actually changes your route in real-time if it can get you to your destination quicker.
And the best part?
it’s possible for you to report speed traps!
Maintaining a car costs a lot of money.
I’ve never put this kind of stress on a car before.
Just last week I had to drop a mint on new tires.
Music-Map.com is a thing.
However, I’m a finicky consumer.
WithMusic-Map.com, you pop in in the name of an artist and get a scatterplot of sorts.
In the center is the artist you chose, and the artists surrounding the center point are musically similar.
The closer the peripheral artists are to the central artist, the more alike they are.
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