I once came across a self-motivational text that asked what you would do if you were given $86,400 every single day and told to spend it all by day's end. Not only that, but on the next day, you would get another $86,400 - and then again and again every single day thereafter. I remember thinking to myself, Wow I can buy a lot of nice clothes with that and maybe a few cars! I wondered why I wasn't allowed to save because then I could buy my family a nice house after saving up for a few weeks. But then the saying went on to tell me that I already had this luxury - that we were all given 86,400 seconds each day to use whichever way we wanted. For some reason, I was more disheartened than inspired by this because it's not really 86,400 to do whichever - we have to sleep, go to the bathroom, eat, and do all sorts of necessary things to stay alive - and $86,400 sounds a lot nicer than 86,400 ticks on a clock. It was even less appealing as a student because a bulk of the 86,400 seconds were spent doing homework or really boring reading. But now that I am free of such obligations, I've grown to appreciate the intrinsic value of weekends. Those two hundred thousand seconds from Friday to Sunday night often feel like a briefcase full of cash. There is limited potential to every weekend, but potential nonetheless. This site documents some of my more interesting uses of weekends.
[Sept. 30 - Oct. 2] Vermont.
Last updated October 10th, 2005