Sentences with phrase «minute ride to work»

While I'm primarily a console gamer, the 3DS is a great system for that 20 - 60 minute ride to work should you find the right games to fill that time.

Not exact matches

If you would like to get a kick scooter for riding to your work, pick the one capable of moving at least 30 minutes.

Well, because of my ambitious idea for breakfast, and how close it was before I had to leave for work, basically after this photo was taken, I pulled the steak off, chopped it up, threw it in a plastic container with the eggs and broke the tostada into pieces to eat in the 50 minute car ride to work.

With some hard work and cool heads Arsenal managed to ride out the first 15 or 20 minutes with no real damage apart from a Ramsey yellow card.

My office is working to schedule a future date for this event, and I deeply regret the last minute nature of this announcement and any inconvenience this may cause those of you who were anticipating a wonderful ride through our Bronx streets,» Diaz said in a statement.

I took a 10 - minute cab ride to 23andMe's office, enjoying the Silicon Valley scene: the smell of fresh air, suburban tree - lined streets, bikers in spandex on their way to work, and men in suits standing on street corners with laptop bags in hand.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The disc also comes with a 51 - minute TV spot from 1987 featuring Vincent Price discussing his career with historian David Del Valle, an interview with writer Richard Matheson and a video essay about the career of director Jacques Tourneur so there's plenty of material for fans to trawl through, but overall The Comedy of Terrors may not be a classic when compared to its main cast members» more celebrated works but it is a fun ride through the cemetery with four bona fide horror legends as your guides.

Just making my list at number 10 is Andrew Niccol's wasted opportunity In Time, a film with a terrific concept — a world where time is literally money, with people working for and buying things with increments of time (2 minutes for coffee, 30 minutes to ride the bus to work etc.)-- that is frittered away to concentrate on running around and building a «relationship» between two leads, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, who don't have the sufficient chemistry together to make it convincing.

Ambernieke Greene rides fifty minutes, which includes dropping off other students at work sites, to her job at St. John Medical Center, where she puts treatment orders into a database, transports patients, and answers phones.

My truck was towed into the Mercedes - Benz dealership on Monday January 15th I was told that I would be able to get a loaner on the next day which would have been January 16th I understand due to all the bad weather that they may have not been open on the 16th of January so I didn't worry about it on the 17th when I called to see what was going on then turn tell me they were trying to see if they could get the warranty company to pay for the part which I was told was $ 1,400 by Frankie at this time I asked him what about a loner car well he in turn told me that it wouldn't take but a day to put the part on because they already had I was already been inconvenience because my truck is there I have no transportation and I work for the hospital so I have to get back and forth to work so after Saturday morning of my mom's passing I called the dealership and spoke with the young lady and she told me all the time cars had been taken for people that had appointments for them now at that point I'm thinking to myself while I'm a customer as well why wasn't I call to pick up a rental car so she in turn told me that she wouldn't have the manager call me back and indeed he did call me back but when he call me back he let me know that they did have a loaner cars and that they would be closing in 30 minutes well I live in Pearland and they're over by Greenway Plaza so that was no way I would have made it to get a car and he let me know that they're trying to wait to see what the warranty company it's going to do don't steal mind you I don't have a loaner car due to the fact they were closing in 30 minutes and I needed to get a ride back all in the same token my mom has passed so he went on to say that he had spoke with Brian from AutoNation Chrysler Jeep and he had told him that he would give him the family discount which was $ 1,200 if they were going to fix the car now mind you if the warranty company is going to fix the car they're going to charge them $ 1,200 but I was told by Frankie that I had to pay $ 1,400 to have this car fixed that I've only had two months that I had a 90 day warranty on but it doesn't cover the port so once he told me he was charging AutoNation Chrysler Jeep the 1200 I told him I didn't think that was fair to me that I would have to pay 1400 at that point when he noticed he had told me the price he would on to say that oh well it may be 1200 or it may be a little lower than 1200 and I informed him once again had to prepare things for my mother's funeral and then have to come up with $ 1,200 on repairs for a car I've only had two months I really don't think it's fair and if I have to pay the 1200 I'll have to I'll just have to come out of pocket with it but I will take it as high as I have to because if you have a 90 day warranty the car came from Mercedes - Benz Greenway Plaza someone should make it right.

I love CD books for long car rides but my commute to work is all of about five minutes.

Book - lovers simply seal themselves inside, strip down to their underwear, pick up a cold slice of pizza, and start downloading the great works of literature... It's all the fun and isolation of home, with the inconvenience of a 20 - minute car ride.

From a fantastic central location, minutes away from the airport, and only a short metro ride away from the sights of Washington DC, to delicious meals (all meals were completely vegan) to a lovely banquet which featured a performance by special guest John Fulton, host of Animal Planet's Must Love Cats, who performed his signature cat songs at the Saturday night banquet and entertained the audience with his quirky humor, conference organizers made sure that this was also a getaway for many of the attendees who rarely take time away from their work with community cats.

The ride was a bit jostling, but I was able to grow accustomed enough to the bounces and rolls of riding the rails in a few minutes» time to work on my laptop for the two hour duration of the ride.

You can even take some of the exhibits out for a spin, ranging from a 45 - minute ride around the harbor on the 1914 Pilot boat (the oldest working boat of its kind on the West Coast) to a military - themed tour in a Vietnam - era Swift Boat or a four - hour ride on the San Salvador, a replica of the ship that explorer Juan Cabrillo sailed into San Diego Bay in 1542.

Magnetic Island is a suburb of Townsville and has a population of approximately 3000, many of whom commute daily to Townsville for work or education purposes, being just a short 20 minute ferry ride from the mainland.

After all that work, you'll get to take a break soaring high above the beaches you just surfed in a 30 minute, scenic floatplane ride.

Only 20 minutes from Cairns this tour takes you to a working cattle station for a campfire BBQ and the thrill ride of your life!

That way you can work all day in town, then take a 20 - minute Uber or cab ride through the city's upscale eastern suburbs, to Australia's most popular and iconic beach.

On a beautiful Berkshire afternoon in October, I took a meandering 50 minute ride north from my home to experience Barbara Takenaga's spiritually cosmic works at the Williams College Museum of Art.

We started our day bright and early with Dr. Dahlgren giving us an introduction to the restoration project and the work at hand, before heading out on a 30 - minute boat ride to the Three Sisters reef.

Adding up the trip to the train station, the train ride itself and the walk from the station to work, it's usually a 90 minute commute each way.

Walking to his nearby docking station, checking out a bicycle and riding the 2.5 miles to work takes him about 20 minutes.

And after only a week, the ride was — if not a piece of cake — a more - than - acceptable way to get in twenty - two minutes of exercise right after work.

That included my 35 - minute commute to work, errands, after - work events and a 5 - hour plane ride.

$ 280 monthly rent, a four - minute bike ride to work and pre-approved «any ok» upgrading!

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.