Dang it, now everyone knows!
Steven Ginsberg over at the Washington Post has let the cat out of the bag. Friday at "rush hour" just isn't rush hour anymore, particularly on three-day weekends like this one. The one three day weekend where I gave into temptation and left early-ish (about 3 pm), it took me five hours to get to Richmond. If I wait until 6 o'clock, it generally takes me about 3 hours. I love how waiting 3 hours gets you there only one hour later. Traffic math can be very confusing. Especially when you start delving into differential equations that make it necessary to integrate with respect to every single exit you pass and traffic light you go through. Triskadectuple integrals. Blech.