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a good drive home
Yesterday was the best long-distance drive I've ever done. It went by fast, I didn't start falling asleep, and I actually had fun.
I think I've discovered a nearly optimal approach to long drives.
- I left early—I was on the road by 7:15a (I planned on earlier, but the best laid plans), so I got home by 10:30p.
- I brought along a supply of tea bags to add to my coffee cups and a couple sandwiches that I split up and ate gradually over the course of the day (keeping my blood sugar levels pretty constant, which helps a lot with drowsiness).
- I made a policy not to stop except for gas and to go until my gas tank was almost completely empty—keeping momentum is important.
- (This was the most enjoyable part.) I downloaded mp3s of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency book-on-tape (written and read by who else? but Douglas Adams) from positron while I drove. Books on tape rule, as does Sprint for its unlimited data policy with the Vision plans—the book is 180-ish Mb!
By the way, Dirk Gently was a good non-Hitchhiker Douglas Adams book. If you're going somewhere far away, grab it from positron. Alternatively, pick up a copy—even as a book-on-tape it is only 6 hours and 40 minutes, so it ought to take you a lot less than that to read it.
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