This from David Weinberger is funny

Joho the Blog: Ten reasons vacations are worse than real life

also this:

Modern definition of vacation: Working in a nicer spot.

Friday night we took a “mini” vacation, consisiting in driving 170 miles north to Bardstown , KY to see The Stephen Foster Story (he’s the dude that wrote a ton of songs like My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, Camp Town Races, Way Down Upon the Suwanee River, etc. ) This was done as a musical, and we had second row seats. It had just finsihed raining, so it was unseasonably cool and comfortable. Afterwards, we drove 20 miles back West to Elizabethtown and looked for a motel to top off this little “mini-vacation”. Seems things were full. I was going to get something with a pool and with WiFi, but all the good ones were taken (not sure what was going on in ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky to cause this). We ended up settling for a “Country Hearth Inn” (69.95 for 4 of us on two double beds), and the place stunk. And no WiFi, but I proabbaly wouldn’t have done much anyway. I watched Baseball Tonight on ESPN, flipped channels, and then we had to get up and get out by 11am, so that part of the trip wasn’t particularly fun.