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alexpgpMy procedure yesterday was canceled for technical reasons, which meant I had to write off the 14-1/2 hours spent waiting and driving as lost time. And for the third time in as many days, I set the alarm for oh-dark-thirty and got on the road to keep another appointment.
The doctor works out of a different office on Wednesdays, located in a part of town I don't know well at all, so today, I relied on the Google map app on my S3 to "talk" me through the trip. It was the first time I used the app, and I was not terribly impressed.
Now it may just be that toll roads, by their nature, offer faster alternatives than non-toll roads, but the app pretty much tried to keep me paying tolls all the way to the doctor's office. At one point, however, one section of road (on Beltway 8) turned into one of at least two lengths of highway around town that I know of that require cars traveling on them to be equipped with an E-Z Pass transponder, because there's no way to otherwise pay the toll using cash.
What really annoyed me about the Google app, however, was the way it kept rerouting me, with contradictory instructions sometimes coming so quickly, that it was sometimes difficult to figure out what to do.
I got to the doctor's office in plenty of time, however, and what needed doing got done.
And now, the wait for results.
The doctor works out of a different office on Wednesdays, located in a part of town I don't know well at all, so today, I relied on the Google map app on my S3 to "talk" me through the trip. It was the first time I used the app, and I was not terribly impressed.
Now it may just be that toll roads, by their nature, offer faster alternatives than non-toll roads, but the app pretty much tried to keep me paying tolls all the way to the doctor's office. At one point, however, one section of road (on Beltway 8) turned into one of at least two lengths of highway around town that I know of that require cars traveling on them to be equipped with an E-Z Pass transponder, because there's no way to otherwise pay the toll using cash.
What really annoyed me about the Google app, however, was the way it kept rerouting me, with contradictory instructions sometimes coming so quickly, that it was sometimes difficult to figure out what to do.
I got to the doctor's office in plenty of time, however, and what needed doing got done.
And now, the wait for results.
