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RE: Listen to RSS feeds on your iPod

Damn, after reading e-mail and blogs for the last couple of hours, I'm slowly starting to create a list of things to do. Life is so much slower and easier without a computer! Anyway, it looks like I have all the equipment to listen to RSS feeds on my iPod. I'm also thinking of downloading books from Audible.com and learning on my way to work, rather than simply listening to music. BTW, I got Mini-Me back today (after sending it to Apple) - they fixed the hinge, but not the loose case.

Home Sweet Home

We arrived home just a couple of hours ago - and boy is it good to be back in the land of no humidity. Julie's skin is itching already (it loves humidity) and mine is loving life. I don't plan on detailing all the blogging events I missed, but since nothing earth shattering appears to have happened - it looks like it was a good time to relax and get away. There are, however, some things worth mentioning:

• These CSS Tabs are wicked cool and at first glance, I think I can create a tabbed menu for struts-menu with a bit of CSS and the ListDisplayer.
• The pseudo-class selector :hover can be used on a paragraph to create a cool effect and I might have to use it... someday.

It's good to be back - and was one of the most relaxing vacations I've ever had.

Animal Planet Live

At the beach

My two ladies.

Vacation Rocks!

I'm home for a mere 12 hours between my New York trip and my Florida trip. Vacation has been awesome so far - and one of the best parts has been not having my laptop and therefore not try to "get things done" - as I am right now! ;-)

Hightlights (so far) have been seeing all my family, seeing Matrix Reloaded (I found myself giggling with glee during some of the fight scenes), playing in a family golf tournament, doing laps in my cousins backyard in a go-cart and going to the Yankees game yesterday with my cousin Paul. To top it all off, I found that the XDoclet team has incorporated my enhancement to allow generating Struts' Forms from POJO's. That ROCKS - Thanks Mathias!

The Apple Store called and said my laptop is finished, so I will pick it up on the way to the airport. I just hope I choose not to take it with me - vacation is so much better without it.

7th inning stretch

At the game

Nice seats eh?!

In line...

At the Yankees game.

In the city

Grand Central Station

I'm outta here!

I leave for the airport in less than 5 hours. First I'm off to New York for my Grandpa Joe's funeral, then I fly back to Denver on Sunday and hop on a plane on Monday for vacation in Florida. I'm kindof disappointed my laptop didn't make it back from Apple in time for this trip, but it's probably a blessing more than anything.

Not having a laptop, my productivity addiction will go unsatisfied (but my stress level will subside) and I'll likely feel out of touch with Java and technology when I return. However, I hope that I turn into my old self on this trip - whom I affectionately refer to as Montana Matt. An easy-going, low-stress guy who doesn't care about much outside of family, friends and having a good time. I'd like to smile a lot, quite worrying about work, and forget about all the open source projects that need releases. I plan on laughing a lot, sleeping in every day, and tipping back a few pints with family and friends. I probably won't be reading any blogs, but I do plan on doing a little mophoto-ing.

See you in a couple of weeks - normal operations will likely resume around the end of the month.