Oh, yes, my lit­tle plea­sure nub­bins, my vaca­tion starts tomor­row. I will be toss­ing the kids and my mother-in-law into the car and head­ing East for a time. Pic­tures will be taken. Foursquare will be checked-in-to. Face­book will be flooded. Fol­low along if you like: if all goes well I will be post­ing updates here as we go. Vaca­tion this year has three sim­ple rules:

• No more than five hours in the car at a time
• Every hotel must have a pool
• No tourist traps

We will be vis­it­ing inter­est­ing places (the Cray­ola fac­tory, some his­tor­i­cal sites), but we’re mak­ing it up as we go. I hate regimented, finely timed and sched­uled vaca­tions. We’re going to drift and see where the road takes us, then come home when the money runs out. (As a side note, one of the rea­sons we’re leav­ing with­out my lovely wife is because she has a gig pretty much every night from now until August. If you want to see her and Jim Gill play, now is the best time. Check her sched­ule for times and loca­tions.) In other news, check these things out:

• I’ve offi­cially reg­is­tered for the Cleve­land Triathlon. If you’re in the area and want to come and sup­port me and my friends who are also par­tic­i­pat­ing, come down to race site that morn­ing and/or pur­chase beer for me after­wards. I will need it.
• Episode 43 of The Secret Lair pod­cast has been posted. In it, we dis­cuss the fate of the for­mer Over­lord John­son and Dr. John Cmar explains the hows and whys of med­ical stud­ies. Very inter­est­ing, very informative.
• My lat­est Hack to the Future col­umn for Star­burst Mag­a­zine has been pub­lished: Two Pair, Aces High (reg­is­tra­tion required)
• Turntable.fm is too much fun. I DJ there…follow my tweet­stream to know when, or become a fan when you find a room I’m in.
• Oh yeah. I’m on Google+ as well.