"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in." - R.Orben

I took today OFF to do all the things we need to do to get ready to leave tomorrow.

Which means I should probably turn off the computer and actually do some stuff, hmmm???

Mini-Gazette, 3/26/09

English Village for Sale
"An historic, 2,003-acre estate in England has been placed on the market. The estate, which includes an entire village near Andover in the county of Hampshire is priced at £23-25 million ($33-36 million)."

"The ring-fenced farming and sporting estate, in ancient landscape between Andover and Newbury in the North Wessex Downs, comprises 1,542 acres of arable and grassland, 425 acres of woodland a world-renowned high bird pheasant and partridge shoot, and the entire village of Linkenholt. If you have a thing for quaint English villages, this should be of interest because you don’t get more quintessentially English than this. The village includes a cricket-ground, a blacksmith, a village shop and 21 cottages and houses of various shapes and sizes, many of which are listed buildings."

That price actually seems very ... reasonable to me.

Small Forgotten Pleasures

As I was doing stuff, I suddenly realized how quiet it was in here.

So I brushed the dust of my CDs and started playing some stuff I like. Stuff (The Clash, Violent Femmes, The Killers, Interpool) that I don't listen to anymore since E was born.

Turning music with a good backbeat up to 11 is a small, forgotten pleasure.