February 15, 2023:
It's not a return from exile.
Granted it's a massive, bottomless, epochal move forward. True dat.
But my San Diego is west of I-5, and, closer though it is, this is still 90 minutes from there.
By no means is this complaint. I'll drive the 60 minutes, and much of the time I'll drive 30 minutes less to the trolley and ride from there. This is better, by miles and miles and miles.
And it brings me into the SoCal daylight, where I strongly suspect much of my violent depression in NorCal was seasonally affective.
So that if one lives long enough things will one day be perfect.