I’m a strong believer in taking time out to relax, refresh and regenerate. Traditionally we have done most of this R&R time during July, but we only got away for a day and a half to Ocean Shores earlier in the month and that wasn’t nearly enough to bring the batteries back to full power.

So it’s now time for my wife and I to skip town for more significant rest and relaxation. When it came time to pack a computer we both looked at each other and shook our heads. No Tablet PC, no laptop, no pocket PC. Really, what kind of vacation is it with a geek bag in tow?

Not sure exactly how long we will be gone, but readers have a few different options if this blog seems a little skeleton-like for a little bit:

1) discover some other blogs not in vacation mode
2) search and scour the Hmm archives. Gold in them thar hills.
3) take a vacation yourselves. Hey, you deserve it.

For this coming Thursday I have scheduled one post to appear that I had intended to be published today. Fellow bloggers wondering how they might get some of their favorite blogger’s attention hopefully will find that useful. I thought about scheduling more unpublished posts to appear in the days that we’re gone but ultimately decided against it this time. I decided a break in the flow for readers once in awhile might be appreciated. Please let me know in the comments if the next time we plan to leave if you would like me to schedule more posts. I have plenty that could be used for downtime if readers want me to use them. Heaven knows my eyes are tired, at least some of your eyes must be too.

It could be a little while before there is another new post after the one Thursday unless we see some irresistable deal on a new computer (buy a computer on vacation? Say it isn’t so!), so let me take this time to thank all of you for reading, subscribing and supporting this blog and in particular my daily writings.

There also won’t be a Hmmcast this coming Friday. We’ll cover both weeks of posts here on August 11 or August 18th should our vacation span longer.

As we embark on this vacation, MakeYouGoHmm.com is currently enjoying some of its best daily average traffic numbers ever, this year comfortably ahead of prior years so far to date and looking to be the best ever for traffic and ad revenue. You can follow the third party site meter stats by clicking on the home page. We’ve always shared these numbers. Subscriber numbers are up too and, well, life is good here.

I should confess that we’re not going to be completely geekless on this trip. The digital camera is going and we have our eyes set on a new video camera that we might pick up along the way.

Now off to star in our own movie without Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The one without the geek toys.

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