it was fun. all 3 of us had fun. besides the inconsistent weather, the mosquitos, the sweaty nights, the disasterous food outcomes, the sweaty nights, pierre’s sickness, the frickin sweaty mosquito-infested nights, the forgotten items that we had to go buy from the stores, and the under-friendly fish-eating neighbors…

we really did have a blast. Everyone agreed it was a success. i loved every minute (besides the minutes mentioned above).

Really, truly it was wonderful.

you missed out this time.

Next summer i’m getting a motel room and we’re eating out.

The beach is so cool. I’m leaving for school in 2 weeks, and i can’t decide whether i want to come home for the break(s) that we’ll be getting or whether i should go someplace i’ve never been before. like Boston (ahem inside joke).

but before i spend all my money, i should see what other people are thinking about. please call me if you have news of fun trips. You don’t have to be a fratdaddy to take fun road trips.

anyways, back to the grind for one more week…

p.s. – I was at red’s today and i noticed how the “cardio room” has about 200+ spinner bikes, treadmills, stairmasters, etc. and they are always filled at peak times. I started to think about how much collective energy people are willing to use to hone their bodies into condition. And people are die-hard dedicated to this kind of stuff, they change their eating habits and maintain strict exercise regimens, expending a fourth of their calorie intake on some friction machine.

If you are me, you suddenly realize that megajoules of energy around the country are wasted in workout rooms to the greedy non-conservative force of friction. If you attatched an electric generator (a simple affair, magnets and coiled wire) to the axle of, say, all the spinner bikes in the whole place, i’d bet that the electricity produced by the Lance Armstrong-wannabees’-generators could power the whole health club. Let’s expand upon this notion, thinks i, as i am sweating away at my 5th mile on the treadmill.

Let’s take some healthy-shmelthy place, such as California, where there are literally thousands of health clubs, and plenty of tanned celebrity types and model look-alikes who are spending multiple hours at a time in said clubs wasting said friction-energy. Wait a tick: coincedentally, California happens to be one of the 50 states in the union that is battling problems with power outages!! It’s so obvious: starting with Cali, let’s turn every single health club into a mini power station. Goodbye Brownouts, Hello cheap, unbelievably green energy. And the Kindergarten Cop / Terminator / Workout-Fiend governor they have over there is JUST THE MAN to sell this idea to his health nuts.

And while we’re at it, finishing up on mile 6, let’s tackle another national problem!! Here in America we have great abundance. Copious abundance. Copius redundant abundance of plenty. There is so much food, so readily available, that we are actually having a crisis with Obesity. Holy Guacamole Dip, do you mean to say that we have people who are sitting on their enormously large rear ends, just storing up energy? Energy to POWER THE NATION???

So: in conclusion, we take the die-hard workout health nuts, stick ‘em on some generators, and then we take the millions of overweight inactive people and show them the way to a healthier lifestyle, launching America into a golden age of health, all the while, making energy cheaper, and maybe even freeing up some of that copious redundant abundance to be used to feed those in need all over the world. And now, simply using the energy that was once lost to friction for electricity, everyone in the world is relatively well-fed and healthy, and nobody really wants to fight anybody else anymore. (I mean, unless there’s another Helen of Troy phenomenon… darn boys always fighting over girls.)

Let’s see, i’ve just knocked out Obesity, World Hunger, Energy Crises, and established world Peace.

All in a day’s run.

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