earth day every day.

On earth day, which is heavily celebrated in an office full of environmental scientists and engineers, I accidentally hit print instead of save while pulling minute-data for sulfur over on the big island. A whole month's worth of data taken each minute. I am shunned. None of the super-hippies are speaking to me. Which would be terrible, if they didn't kind of smell funny anyway.

I ran an easy eight miles that morning, and had to drive the back-up car, a 93 eurovan, home from town in time to get the kids after an afternoon swim. Except there was some kind of construction emergency on Kal Hwy, and the eurovan does not like traffic. It's an awesome car, 16 years old with fewer miles on it than my bike shoes, but it gets very hot in traffic and has to stop. So when I realized I had a problem on my hands, I pulled off in Kahala and parked it at the mall. I had a pair of goggles, a cap, my blingy shades, and a silk DVF wrap dress with me. I was wearing my new hot pink lululemon bikini. I remembered the emergency shoes in the back of the van. So I had to decide - wait out 2 more hours of rush hour, or run 8 miles home in a traffic jam in a pink bikini, gold oakleys, and a pair of worn out newtons.

No, there are no photos. At least, I hope not. I beat everyone to Hawaii Kai, and made some friends in cars along the way though. And I had an accidental 16 mile run day. My question is this - does the gasoline not used and emissions not made make up for all the trees I killed?