We’re going where the sun shines brightly

Things to do:

• rip some CDs to iTunes ready for the iPod-shuffle mid-holiday when I realise I chose the wrong albums for the iPod
• select lots of DVDs that I probably won’t watch because the books I’m bringing are going to be enough and by 10pm every night we’re going to be ready to hit the sack anyway
• ensure I have at least one pair of pants that don’t look out of place in a restaurant
• resist temptation to add my guitar to the luggage
• resist temptation to add a little MIDI controller to the luggage
• pack the Sky gnome because we’ll want to listen to the radio down at the pool, then either forget an important cable for same or not bother using it because the iPod does the job
• bring my songwriting notebooks with great intentions but never making any real progress
• turn off the gas

We’re off to the bolt hole we found in the south of France. 3 weeks of bliss. Doing as little as possible. Once the kids are in college it’s going to be harder and harder to persuade me that engineering a retirement there is a bad idea.