title: Post-it Note Diaries: 20 Stories of Youthful Abandon, Embarrassing Mishaps, and Everyday Adventure
author: Arthur Jones
description: Read a story per day and savor it.<b>George Gene Gustines, <i>New York Times</i></b>
zlib_text: Life, the Universe, and Everything  
    
  Chapter 1  
    
    
  The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking
  up and suddenly remembering where he was.  
    
  It wasn't just that the cave was cold, it wasn't just that it was damp and
  smelly. It was the fact that the cave was in the middle of Islington and there
  wasn't a bus due for two million years.  
    
  Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could
  testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being
  lost in space kept you busy.  
    
  He was stranded in prehistoric Earth as the result of a complex sequence of
  events which had involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in more
  bizarre regions of the Galaxy than he ever dreamt existed, and though his life
  had now turned very, very, very quiet, he was still feeling jumpy.  
    
  He hadn't been blown up now for five years.  
    
  Since he had hardly seen anyone since he and Ford Prefect had parted company
  fo