Building my stress back

It's been a few days, so I guess I owe a post.

As mentioned, I went to try the gym. They have a large assortment of machines there that, despite their lights and buttons, all seem to be manually powered. I always had to peddle something or push something to make them work. Worst of all, it seems that the point of all that pushing and peddling was just to change the numbers and lights on the front panels of said machines. All that work made me tired. What is this all about? For $100 a month, I have to do all the work?! Something is very wrong about this.

All kidding aside, it is a very nice gym. My first workout included, in rough order, 20 minutes on a bike, stretching, back machine (50kg), chest machine (30kg), back/lifting machine, leg spreading machine (I wish I had a better way to describe that...), curl-ups, weight lifting, stair machine (20 minutes), weird-ass ski machine (10 minutes), tread-mill (20 minutes), different bike machine (20 minutes), and more stretching.

I got a look at the pool, but I didn't have a water cap. Those things look kind silly to me... But if you get in the pool, you have to wear one. I didn't get to see the tennis courts, but they have those too. You have to pay extra to use them for some odd reason.

So, now it comes down to this: do I want to sign on the line for $100 a month (for a non-automated gym!) or try and get by jogging, swimming at the $6 per use pool, and lifting the water bottles I tied together? If I go to the pool ten times a month, that leaves me $40 left for water bottles with the same amount of money! Imagine all the water I could drink!

Anyway, I have until April 3rd to decide.