For a while, I was using Apple Maps instead of Google Maps because Google Maps would just bump me into 3D mode all the time. I do not know who wants that shit.
It seems to have calmed down on that front, and I guessed it knows more about traffic than Apple Maps, so I was using it for my horrible summer commute into Kendall Square. Today, it literally directed me on a loop near McGrath, maybe because connectivity dropped and it was behind on where I was.
Anyway, it's a wash, and every drop-off ends up totaling around 100 minutes. I finally figured out that the Cambridge Main Library is a place I can work from on non-meeting days that is tolerable and doesn't require me to move my car to another parking zone every two hours, so I can just drop off, drive to Harvard Square, work, pick up at Kendall, then drive home, thereby cutting the driving in half.
However, this is the last week of this camp, tomorrow is my only non-meeting day left, and I have to take the car in to get the serpentine belt tightened so that the alternator can charge the battery and all the electrical stuff will work at normal capacity, etc.
So, I guess I can tuck this strategy away for next year. Though next year, maybe the red line won't be shut down for July, and we can just drive to Alewife, then take the train in. Or, who knows. Maybe math camps will be banned by presidential decree for being somehow pro-trans.