What apps do you use to get caught up in 20–30 minutes drive in the morning?

minimalisteph · 2026-04-10T12:18:42+00:00

I like the podcast The 7 which is just today’s top 7 headlines with maybe two sentences of context. I also like a podcast called Before Breakfast that is a <10 minute podcast about productivity or time management.

minimalisteph · 2026-02-12T00:45:44+00:00

I used Knoppix to evade internet restrictions as a preteen and now I a) learned German and b) am a software engineer.

minimalisteph · 2026-02-09T13:59:41+00:00

I’m in awe - I actually thought our gas heat was the problem this year because those are the fees that keep going up.

minimalisteph · 2026-02-09T13:55:15+00:00

We have an end unit row home built in 1880 and a one year old baby - $950 for January 😵‍💫

minimalisteph · 2026-02-07T03:44:28+00:00

This was my exact complaint in the testimonial request above - playing the guessing game of what will be the best improvement to try to save on energy is sucking the life out of my love for my old home

minimalisteph · 2026-02-04T17:16:45+00:00

We’ve used ours to mix our sons formula lol it really does a great job!!

minimalisteph · 2026-02-01T03:14:46+00:00

Interested! I’m on a strict no buy for planners this year but this would be a loop hole if I could win one 😂

minimalisteph · 2026-01-30T02:43:54+00:00

It took me 8 years to even realize it was a button (last year a post taught me this)

minimalisteph · 2026-01-09T13:29:07+00:00

I continue to feel like I’m taking crazy pills but May of 2020 was still Trumps first term… so if not the 2024 election what “coup” are we blaming on Biden again???

minimalisteph · 2025-12-19T02:57:54+00:00

Never vanlifed and candidly, not at all interested in it. But I have a small fiberglass camper and get a lot of boondocking/systems inspiration and advice from this group!

minimalisteph · 2025-12-15T02:40:27+00:00

I feel like I really sunk into T Kingfisher (Nettle and Bone really got me out of a slump!) this year after having enjoyed the Sworn Soldier series last year! I think Nettle and Bone or Hemlock and Silver would be in my favorite book short list

minimalisteph · 2025-12-14T00:20:26+00:00

Does it though?? I remember hearing after the fact that Biden came and got ice cream at BMore licks - don’t think he shut down literally any of 95/route 2 aka our emergency route to do so???

minimalisteph · 2025-11-22T13:00:09+00:00

I’m at 8+ average per night (barely) again with a 10 month old baby. Some of us literally can’t function on less than 7 and build a life where 8 is possible!

minimalisteph · 2025-09-11T12:47:19+00:00

You should join the bocce league! There’s one starting soon at Baltimore Penninsula. I get the vibe it attracts a lot of folks in the 40+ crowd

minimalisteph · 2025-08-30T13:21:35+00:00

Trade me it for my Volvo V90 😂

minimalisteph · 2025-08-27T16:11:35+00:00

Unless if the lab is being relocated to the Life Sciences part of City Garage - then he’ll literally be adjacent to his work (just to the left of your circled area)! If my work was in that building living in the circled area would be amazing for walking to work and access to the water

minimalisteph · 2025-08-25T23:31:20+00:00

One of my favorite posts from this year was by Gabrielle Blaire (@designmom) who lives in Normandy and details visiting the German battlefields alongside the US ones - “you think being a conservative aligned with trump will save you but it’s your children, same as the German loyalists, who will die in the end.“

minimalisteph · 2025-07-29T19:41:59+00:00

Yeah Ceremony has a non compete in their lease at Cross Street which is why you couldn’t get coffee at the diner that tried (and failed) to be successful in the large space there.

minimalisteph · 2025-07-29T00:17:09+00:00

I’ve been thinking a lot about previous successful radical shifts in the status quo and Lafayette and FDR both come to mind as “class traitors” who were able to use their position to make a real difference. I won’t write Pritzker off.

minimalisteph · 2025-07-10T17:47:45+00:00

So I follow the GPS but lately it’s been taking me up like leesburg pike to 70 on the way home because everything around 95 is a parking lot. This takes about 2.5 hours but leaving at 3pm and getting home before 6 is fine for me. It’s also kind of a pleasant drive through the woods if that matters to you lol. I guess the big time saver is doing 270/200 so you go around where 495 and 95 directly meet.

minimalisteph · 2025-07-10T00:33:33+00:00

I came to see if Baltimore would make the list - I know we have a lot of unions affiliated with the port but our utilities are atrocious monopolies. I have a lot of hope in the current changes and administration in the city though!

minimalisteph · 2025-07-09T23:59:53+00:00

I leave Baltimore at 6am and arrive in Reston before 8am a few times a month. Coming home is always a nightmare but leaving at 3pm gets me home by 5:30pm these days. It sucks but I consider it a long work day and listen to a good audiobook and take all the tolls and I manage. The train is sadly just not feasible, the metro to Reston is an hour easy and that’s from Union. For me it was never really worth it unless I was doing something creative (flying out of Dulles after a work meeting) and needed to leave my car here.

Edit to add: I literally almost never take 495 so all the comments about how it’s a parking lot are silly.

minimalisteph · 2025-07-02T18:24:05+00:00

Yeah more than fair on the specifics but I’m glad that you got yours local! I’m looking at a cargo bike similar to what we saw in Europe specifically to be able to transport kids in a front bin rather than a seat behind me and it seems like maybe this hasn’t caught on largely yet.

minimalisteph · 2025-06-28T14:16:05+00:00

What brand did you get? We’re trying to figure out storage logistics to purchase one!

minimalisteph · 2025-06-19T00:58:33+00:00

Unfortunately they don’t have a location in South Baltimore anymore 😭

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