Thinking Ahead

I don't often take time off, or take vacations. Not sure if it is the 'cheap' gene in me, or the fact that I tend to be too responsible (actually, I hate working doubly hard the week before taking off, and then again the week after taking off to make the week off possible), but I have only taken a couple of true vacations. Last year during the school spring break (which coincided with the kids' break) we went to Hot Springs. Stayed in a hotel, all the vacation stuff.

This year, not so much. My spring break is the week prior to Easter, meaning no going places. Topped off with the fact that the kids have the following week off, so there is little overlap. Still, a week without school means I could just laze around and get caught up on all my TV on DVD. Farscape, Dresden Files, Carnivale, Lost (fun to rewatch), even a movie or two here and there that I own but never watched on DVD (probably watched in a theater, though).

Nothing on the horizon reading-wise, though. I see Stephen King has a new one out, if I see it in the library I might give it a try. Other authors, aside from George RR Martin (waiting on Dance of Dragons) aren't moving me right now. I think I need a new series or direction, assuming I can fit the time in with all the extra curricular stuff I am doing. And since I saw Cloverfield, my anticipated movies are pretty slim, too. Dark Knight is the next biggie, even more so now that Heath Ledger's performance has been linked to depression and possibly implicated in his death. Who the hell knows. He was a fine actor, and from what I have seen (first 5 minutes bootlegged from a convention on YouTube for half a day) he is pretty awesome. Only other of his films I have seen was Knight's Tale. Still, his death is way creepy.