Februrary 1, 2005 - Today I woke up and lived my life in Manchester, New Hampshire. I spend most of my time in Cincinnati, Ohio, so when I take business trips it is a change in my normal routine. I have to adapt to the new surroundings, the new people, the situations that I don't encounter when I am in Cincinnati. This adaptation is pretty amazing. I am able to exist without major problems regardless of where I am. I do this by surrounding myself with some of the comforts of home, such as my laptop, so that I have familiar music to listen to and am able to converse with friends on AOL Instant Messenger. I prepare for the change in climate by bringing appropriate clothes, and I interact with new people by introducing myself and finding similarities that we can draw upon. I am particularly noticing adaption, or survival, in the way that Joyce (who is traveling with me) and I found a restaurant to eat at night. We don't "know" our way around Manchester, but we were able to find where restaurants are, pick one out, and navigate our way into the restuarant and get food without any major problems. It is amazing that we are able to do all of this without having detailed directions telling us exactly what to do. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in over-specifying how things should be done, because I think the person who would be doing it for the first time can't use their own logic, but it seems that humans have an incredible ability at using their own logic and intuition to make decisions. I guess this was my realization of the day. Maybe everyone else already knew that.