Today I learned a very important lesson:

if you're used to listening to music when you work out, and you reset your iPod in anticipation of refill for a six-and-a-half-hour plane flight, and you drop your discman hard enough to make the laser move with your finger and though you have a warranty, you can't get a replacement for two days (I'm aware none of this is a tragedy), and you decide to do 35 minutes on the elliptical trainer, 10 minutes on the treadmill and lift weights with both your arms and legs...

your time at the gym will bore you to tears, or would if you weren't trying to kill yourself and burn more calories.

And you can't listen to your new Blue Rodeo CD.