Sep 23 2008
How Do I Do It????
(This is how I look when I camp)
Last weekend I went to Leo Carrillo National Park to camp and generally enjoy the great outdoors for the few days (which for me mainly means drink lots of beers and eat grilled cheese sandwiches). I had been looking forward to the trip since I booked it back in May since Leo Carrillo is basically the 5 star hotel of camping spots and is incredibly hard to get a reservation at from May to about December. It’s on the beach, has wonderful shady camping spots and is one of the more gorgeous places I’ve ever been. Anyway, in preparation for the trip, I did some research online and came across this eHow article on vacationing there. The article detailed how to make a reservation to go there (useful), instructions that in order to camp you need to set up your tent (campers should probably already know this, but ok), and what to do in the morning (“Wake up to the smell of burnt out campfires, the sun just coming up and birds chirping,” it would sort of suck if you didn’t wake up).
Anyway, I had not really had any experience with eHow before I was facinated to look through it. eHow is an interesting idea but it results in some very ridiculous instructions for things you should already know how to do (typing in “how to tie your shoes,” for instance, gives you 4,150 results). I decided that today, I will attempt to live an entire day simply by following eHow instructions.
7:00- Wake up and drink coffee
Articles that could help me with this include:
How to Wake Up in Good Mood and How to Brew Coffee (which hasthe very exact instruction “Serve in a large mug with 18% cream and sugar to taste” 18%??? how do I measure this?).
8:30- Drive to Work
Can I shorten my commute anymore if it’s already 4 miles?
9:00- Work
5:30- Spin Class
For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure out How to Enjoy strenuous exercise. If only I had read this and known that my problem was not wearing appropriate clothing!
7:30- Dinner
In short, eHow could instruct me on how to live my entire day. I mean, I could spend the time trying to figure out how to brew coffee or wake up on my own, but why bother when I can ask the average internet user and get an answer?
The information age rocks.
