If you actually manage to read all the way through the entire article (the first time): The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine My hypothesis is that: You need more caffeine in your diet. You need a [new] job. A life. All...

About two or three weekends back, we took the Sequoia up toward the Glacier Peak Wilderness loaded with the family (wife, kids, me) and various pieces of what-if back country gear: important stuff like MREs, bonus water, rope and rappelling stuff, tire...