Now that I have my schedule to view from, I _can_ make this meet with plenty of time available. Figuring that it was just anouther 12:30, onwards weekend, I forgot that this was the week that Wally really screwed me over. So...in a nutshell, I have to leave the meet by 4:15 to make the 4:30 work shift.

And that means what? driving all of a block and a half?

It means that I have to 'suit up.' Which means finding and putting on things. It means hunting down a parking space. Weekend afternoons, especially around this time of the year, can be hard to acquire. Plus, navigating with the heavy traffic that that place generates. Reaching the time clock...with all the foot traffic. Bla, bla, bla. I know too darn well that a 15 minute buffer is tight enough to pull off.

Oh, what is to become of the world when some super Star Trek nerd pulls off a real world transporter? Will time scheduling become almost effortless?

we already have one but it's non commercial and hasn't left government eyes only yet

Actually, I theorize that if such a transporter existed to the general public, it would probably only be a matter of time before Diseases A, B and C were brought together in the massive marketplace that would mutate into something extremely fatal and be carried all over the planet in a matter of hours. Since we still don't have the doctors of Star Trek to create cures to most anything in a matter of hours, the Human race would most likely succumb to this mega virus in a matter of weeks.

Or, maybe I'm just writing a worst case senario.