Eco Things and the Weekend
This weekend was fairly jam-packed, and I felt like I got little accomplished.
Friday: Work took us out to Dave and Buster’s in Bethesda by charter bus. We were fed lots of yummy foods and given 2 hours worth of “points” to spend on various arcade games. This place is apparently like a Chuck E Cheese for adults. I took my sister with me to work Friday so she could go, and I think she had a lot of fun. I had a decent amount of fun, though two events stick out in my mind more than most.
While playing skeet ball(?), which was incidentally the first game I tried, a man and his two young sons were playing to my left. After a few shots he tapped me on the shoulder and said “Excuse me, but you elbowed my son in the eye.” I looked down and saw his son (who looked about 
crying and holding his eye. I apologized because I felt really bad about it, and finished out my game. Shortly after he came up to me again and said “Actually, apparently it was his brother that did hit him.” I didn’t really say anything back at the time, but later when I thought about it I was kinda pissed. Find out the truth before you go around accusing people of that shit.
The other was on the ride home, apparently folks were drunk enough that my giggle had them rolling in laughter. Which of course makes me giggle even more, so it was an amusing series of giggling and laughing.
Saturday I woke up with a large muscle pulled in the back of my neck that started at the base of my skull and wrapped back around my left shoulder. I don’t know what caused it, but it prevented me from doing much of anything Saturday like I wanted.
Today I went to the Grove to teach a workshop on Lazy Eco-Conscious Decisions, which followed a viewing of “An Inconvenient Truth”. They didn’t necessarily relate to one another except that they were both about the environment. The workshop went well, except I kept getting interrupted, and had several requests to pause the movie for discussion. I would have rathered the discussion came afterwards, and I certainly don’t like people interrupting me while I’m talking. It really doesn’t surprise me that we have a hard time getting people to teach workshops at the Grove.
In other recent news, I started an experiment of driving 55mph everywhere on Jun 13th to see how much I’d save on gas. So far I seem to at least get an extra day of driving out of my tank, but it will be difficult to sum up the savings without some accurate calculation which I just don’t have the time or data for. I may look at my expenses on gas in MS Money, but even that fluctuates simply because it depends on how often I go to the Grove, or how many days we have off that month for vacation or holiday. Still, I’d like to think I’m seeing a small improvement in my gas mileage. Driving down the Grove still takes a quarter tank of gas, though.
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