This weekend some friends took me away to the adirondacks. It is taking several days to realize just how incredibly wonderful this has been. In basically two and a half days I rode across the state (you know there aren't many other states where you can drive five hours and still be in the middle of the same state) slept in a beautiful cabin on secluded mountain lake, climbed a mountain(albeit a small one), hiked to a waterfall, ate wild raspberries, got rained on, enjoyed a thunderstorm, fished, blasted around in a whaler, swam in open water, sunbathed in the company of beautiful women, read several hundred pages of a Neal Stephenson novel, rode in a wrx in four wheel drift mode down a secluded gravel road, hiked to a hunting lodge, scoped out several jeep trails, and cooked sausage on an open fire. All this was accomplished at a very relaxed pace and mostly without shoes.
This has left me with a series of realixations that were probably obvious on their face but just the same needed some outside force to get me to notice.
I have a much higher quality of friends than most people. I have very few of them but they are just plain better people.
i need to start writing again. It is a hard habit to get back into, but I am happier and better balanced when I am.
Having a job is seriously interfering with my lifestyle. That shit is going to have to go and soon.
I am going to have to do something about getting a girlfriend soon. It has just been too long and bad options are starting to be tempting.
All in all time very well spent and a pretty substantial to do list.
