I don’t think I truly know what the words “vacation” or “relax” mean. Seriously. We’re visiting friends right now and I’ve taken the week off, conceivably to “relax”, or have a vacation. But I don’t know if I’d be able to relax if my life depended on it. When I’ve not been running around town with my little brood, or busily doing “fun” stuff, I’ve been trying to get caught up on my work e-mail, personal e-mail, and GSOC project, among other busy-work. Not exactly relaxing fare.

I’ve recently realized that this state is not necessarily a good one to exist in, and have become increasingly aware of an absence of rest, peace, and tranquility.

So, in an attempt to relax/vacation in the last couple of hours that I’ve had to myself, I’ve updated my facebook profile, set up a twitter account, caught up on my unread RSS feeds, caught up on unread mailing lists (not done with that one yet *sigh*), researched SRV DNS records, and having done those things, I feel anything but relaxed and/or vacationy.

I have a very out of focus picture in my mind of what relaxation/vacation should look like and it involves a couple of good books, a hammock, a bunch of trees, a cool breeze, and a distinct lack of technology. I think. But how do you actually pull that off? =:/