That's a phenomenal photo of Chad, I hope he learned his lesson ;-). (poor Mr. Thermy, though) After seeing another batch of concert photos from the European summer leg of the tour, I'm cursing myself yet again for not making it (I have a stereo that needs fixin', too ;-D). On a more philosophical note (evoked by the introduction in today's entry), I believe human beings are in their essence lazy. We tend to save as much (of our) energy as we possibly can. This drive of ours may derive from the early stages of human evolution when a homo sapiens could make a choice between taking some time to sculpt a beautiful mud statue of his beloved female homo sapiens from a nearby cave and taking some time to join his fellow cave-dwellers and go hunting wabbits...I mean mammoths. The choice is obvious (it probably explains the lack of both ancient mud sculptures and mammoths, as well :-)). The source of this energy-conserving drive doesn't matter, though. The point is that it's here today. It can manifest in the conservation of purely kinetic energy ("Oh, well, somebody else will pick up that plastic wrapper/old washing machine dumped in the forest/oil tanker sinking into the ocean"), as well as emotional energy ("oh, well, somebody else will say 'I'm sorry'/'I love you'/'You're a good friend'). I hate it, absolutely hate it when people say something like "oh, well, what does it matter if I throw that half-eaten lollipop out the window and not into the trash? People do it all the time. What difference could *I* make? There only one of *me* ." It's not like everybody should immediately go and buy themselves an eco-friendly car or start befriending people all over the place. But there's still things each one of us can do, which will definitely benefit our lives and the lives of the people around us (be it now, later in the evening, tommorow or in a hundred years; be it emotionally, physically or mentally; be it our friends, neighbours, schoolmates or planet-dwellers). A person can do *so much* good in his or her life, can have *so much* fun by sharing that fun with others, can learn *so much* new by exploring, reading, talking. In the wise words of 4 Brits: All you need is love (love towards your friends, love towards your planet, love of knowledge, *love of life* ). Sorry for the longwindedness, every few months I seem to feel an urge to write a long, crazy post somewhere :-). Party on!! P.S. @ Dave If you run out of things to blog about after the RHCP tour is over and decide to call it a (blogging-off) day, remember: even the choice between white tube socks and black tube socks can be made interesting and appealing-to-readers if handled correctly ;-).