We are booked to go to England! This was kind of last minute. We had initially planned to buy tickets before Christmas, but due to certain circumstances we decided to wait. Then just recently, we were able to find babysitters for Abby so we could go. Thankfully, there were still tickets available that weren't super expensive, although, more than they had been in December.
Now we need to figure out where to go and what to do. We would like to venture to at least one other country while we're out. Other than that, all I've got is to visit some castles. I've always wanted to see a castle. And beer sampling! Julene would like to see a show of some sort in London.
Does anybody have any more ideas?
As requested, I posted some pictures of Abby to the gallery. Also, check out pictures from Christmas, as there are some gooders in there.
Other than that, I'm just working. Nothing new going on. I bought some x-country skis....
Need to get some boots though, so they're useless to me until then.
An older and wiser colleague once told me that during his downtime he would "read a book or technical article relating to my profession." I am experiencing downtime right now so I am doing some experimental programming with Google APIs but am finding it exceedingly difficult to be motivated.
What do you do in your downtime and how do you motivate yourself (if you're doing something productive)?
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The same question was just posted on slashdot, creating a lot more discussion than would be generated here.
I don't subscribe to New Year's resolutions because they carry the assumption that they will be broken within a month. But one thing that I have wanted to do lately is read the entire Bible. And through a strange coincidence, Google Reader had a "Read the Bible in a Year" RSS subscription suggestion for me.
The feed breaks up the reading into 1 OT, 1 NT, and 1 Psalms/Proverbs section per day.
If you're interested, the URL for the feed is
http://www.ibs.org/bibles/dailyreading/rss/niv.xml
Happy New Year!
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