Since others are attempting to do it, I figured I'd do the same and blog each day of my vacation. If nothing else I can always look back at the end and see how much of my vacation I wasted. Today was a good start.

I woke up at 10am which is so much nicer than waking up at 3:30am and hitting the snooze alarm three times. My wife and son had left early to meet some friends at a petting zoo. Since I have pet one too many animals in my day, I stayed home.

I brought a load of laundry downstairs to be done, but I always have a hard time remembering to go back down to put it in the dryer. I never understood why dryers have buzzers but washers don't seem to. At least none I've ever used.

To solve the problem of the laundry switch, I sat down at my desktop which is also in the basement, and decided to enter in the codes from the six Ziploc bags of Pepsi bottle caps that Anita from the office has been collecting for me. You enter them on pepsistuff.com and you can get a free song on amazon.mp3 for every five caps. 154 caps later, I had enough points in the bank for about 40 songs, and the washer was done.

For the remainder of the day, in between helping get my son fed and keeping him from rolling blueberries off the entertainment center and into the baseboard heaters, I read comic books.

I used to read comic books as a kid right through college. It wasn't until college that I realized that these things might be worth something some day, and started saving them instead of throwing them in the landfill. I still have several boxes of 15+ year old comics somewhere in the basement that at last check aren't worth any more than the cover price, which back then was $1 or less. I stopped reading when the price went over a dollar, and to follow a story arc you had to buy multiple series since the comic industry realized they'd make more money by doing crossovers.

After seeing The Dark Knight though I had to get back into it and now am reading every Batman and Superman book I can get my hands on. I'm also catching up on old story arcs in trade paperbacks that collect all the comics in the arc into one handy book.

Which brings me to 1am on what is technically day two of my vacation. I'll read one more and then go to bed I suppose. Batgirl just showed up in No Man's Land, but Batgirl was retired (actually shot and paralyzed by The Joker) years ago, so who is this?!?! Must find out.

Tomorrow's agenda? I need to start flattening a bunch of boxes in the basement for recycling, do some major yard work since part of the house looks like a jungle, make a trip to Zimmie's in downtown Lewiston for the first time to get more comics, and of course read said comics.

Vacations can be hard work when you're a geek.