A friend of mine told me recently that some I really should be drinking more than the conventional wisdom number of 64oz per day. Something about half my body weight in ounces. Man, that's like 140oz everyday!

So I started thinking about my water drinking skills and figured that I'm a lazy bastard when it comes to drinking water. I'll go for one refill at most (maybe two on a good day). With a nalgene bottle, this means I'll get about 64oz if I get the second refill. Thus is my dilemma.

Well lo and behold nalgene bottles may actually be bad for you, so there's another problem. Well, I think I have the solution. I go through a bit of Pellegrino and generally would recycle the bottles afterwards. Now, I'm going to reuse these bottles for each of my work locations. That's 6 bottles at my desk at work. Six bottles upstairs and 6 downstairs at home. Every morning, when I get to work (or work at home), I'll refill the 6 bottles (hence overcoming my one refill laziness). As 3 drink the water, I'll leave the bottles open to dry out. As they get skanky, I'll wash them. If they get really skanky, then I'll crack open a new case of The Pelle to drink the fizzy goodness and refresh my supplies.

I think I'll figure out a way strap some bottles into each car so we'll always have water ready when we go hiking or something.