The Sun

Often taken for granted, the sun is without a doubt the most essential part of life. Without the sun there is no gravity to hold us in place, no heat and warmth, no photosynthesis, no plants, and thus no food for anyone to eat. It has a diameter of 865 thousand miles (earth is about 8 thousand). It produces heat by constantly mashing up hydrogen and turning into helium, a feat we have only discovered in the last 60 years or so. It makes up almost 99.99 percent of the solar systems total mass, and has enough gravity to keep neptune floating in orbit... and neptune is only 2.7 billion miles away. These are the least of the sun's fantastic properties.

Everything is somehow better when its sunny. Take for example last Wednesday, sunny and about 65 or 70 degrees. That was the best day of your week - all because of the sun. There is no doubt that the sun affects not only your physical warmth but your psychological warmth as well. There is even a study out there showing that people conversing with others while holding a warm drink rate the other person as more friendly, hospitable, and generally "warm" than when holding a cold drink. Does the sun's warmth affect you? Absolutely.

I can already imagine being in shorts, generally sticky from sweat, eating ice cream, praying for a breeze, utilizing the park centrals pool e.t.c. I love the following things: Beaches/water, milkshakes, beer, barbecued stuff, baseball, hiking, laying around on grassy areas just to lay around on grassy areas, slurpees, not shoes, warmth, open windows - all of those things come around when the sun is out.

I love the sun. Every time you look at the sun, think about the sun, or are in the sun, remember how fantastic it is.

Chumps at Restaurants (Valentines Day)

Hey restaurants on Valentine's Day, wt f*ck. You feel the need to charge people inflated prices for a lack of choice in the substandard food they will be eating.

Often, there are 2, maybe 3 things on the menu. You get a small dessert, small salad, and some "good" wine - but how can we really trust it is good wine, no one knows anything about wine.

It seems that restaurants can't wait to get in on the screwing that takes place on valentine's day.

Valentine's day is often full of pressure for men, buying flowers, making reservations, remembering its valentine's day, acting "mature", wearing nice clothing, these things add pressure and that sucks when restaurants add even more pressure by making us men pay ridiculous amounts for food, and drink...

Example: Moroccos - normally, plates are 13-17 dollars. This means, an appetizer, two plates, wine, and dessert should cost somewhere around $60-$70. They want me to pay $50 dollars per person - Are you f*cking joking. That is almost double what it would normally cost to eat there, and the only reason they can do this is because its Valentine's day and that most men aren't creative enough to think of a date that doesn't include restaurant and movie.

Are the movie theaters increasing their prices on valentines day? Is it now $30 per person including popcorn and drink? I think not... Stay strong movie theaters, you are our financial haven on valentines day.

The things that sucks too is that we don't really have a choice, a date to a restaurant on valentine's day is expected.

I forget what my point is except, f*ck Moroccos I am not going there on Valentines day, maybe saturday instead.

The Gym

There are few venues that are more interesting for watching people than at the gym. There are many quirks and strange things that take place here - I intend to document.

(1) People who "work out."

You will often see these people at the gym, and you yourself may be one. You probably know if you are. These people are usually found on a stationary machine that allows them to "exercise" for a long amount of time. Usually, the machine is set on "high" resistance and the individuals on the machines are "sweating." These people are also "reading" their favorite book or "studying" for a class - and they may even be "listening" to music. They may do this for 30 minutes or so. Afterwards, they will probably tell you that they had a great "workout" at the gym.

(2) The drinking fountain

What is the deal? One person at a time only seems to be the rule - and the one that is higher up is clearly the superior drinking fountain - even though it somehow becomes frequently broken. I don't know how this rule got started, but I know that 98% of people are susceptible to it, myself included.

(3) The bullshit on the gym televisions

NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH CNN WHILE THEY ARE WORKING OUT. It is not motivational. Once, there were people on t.v. running on treadmills in a competition - looking tired as shit. That was motivational. The sight of Wolf Blitzer's strange facial hair and excited reporting about absolutely nothing relevant does nothing to motivate me to work out. If anything, I question my need to work out, as someone who is clearly out of shape is exponentially more successful than I will ever be.

(4) People at the front desk

Show some cheer, please - Your life isn't miserable

(5) The stretching mats

WTF are those people doing?