My vacation has been more relaxing by the day, and I honestly feel more and more disconnected from work as time passes.

Monday and Tuesday were comprised of nothing more than chill-out time.  I spent a fair amount of time watching TV, sitting around, and basically practicing laziness.  Pretty much the equivalent of this:

By Wednesday, I had cabin fever and was ready to do some fishing.  Jess came along with me and we had a great afternoon.  I actually think she caught more fish than me, too (I caught some fish AND a wicked sunburn).  Here’s an excerpt from her blog entry:

I caught the largest fish of my life…and the kicker was I caught it while napping. Fell totally asleep with the rod in my hand, and a 15 inch bass almost took my pole with him. He did get to keep the fake worm that was supposed to SMELL like a real worm. That’s what the package said, I didn’t smell it to make sure.

What Jess didn’t mention is that while I was helping her with her fish (the hungry guy had swallowed 2/3 of her lure; we had to cut the line), a similar-sized bass had taken hold of my bait and was slowly dragging my line out.  I looked over just in time to see my Ugly Stick starting to slide its way off the dock I was fishing from.  Fortunately, I was able to run back and grab my rig before it got pulled into the water.

Here’s what was on the other end:

Another fine 15-inch largemouth… a little fatter than the one Jess had hooked, but both were very decent.  These are two of the biggest fish I’ve seen come out of the pond in awhile, and it gives me hope that there are some even bigger ones in there just waiting to be caught.  That being said, we’re going back on Friday. 

Today (Thursday) was more of a utility day than anything, but it was still quite relaxing, and I feel like I accomplished quite a few things.  One of the highlights of the day was getting to cut down some junk furniture for burning (just trust me, you didn’t want it).  God bless the creators of the Milwaukee Sawzall.

More to come as the 2007 “What Servers?” Tour continues…

It’s been said that a vacation takes 2 weeks.  You need one week to get your brain to turn off, and another to actually relax after that happens.

In an effort to make that happen, I started “disconnecting” this morning.  For starters, I deleted my Exchange account from my laptop and also disabled ActiveSync on my phone.  A little drastic?  Perhaps, but mail has a “Pavlov’s dog effect” on me bigtime, so it’s in my best interest to distance myself from it as much as possible.

I will most-likely continue blogging through vacation, and hopefully I’ll have some nice pictures to show through the next two weeks.  I seriously, SERIOUSLY doubt I’ll be talking about anything directly related to IT, unless it’s to comment on the slow dial-up connection that I’ll be using.

Oh yeah, and this location happens to be well out of wireless range.  Bummer…