Schprock Takes a Holiday

Well folks, I’m outta here. Me ’n’ the missus are heading off to beautiful Martha’s Vineyard for a week, where a friend of ours has kindly allowed us the use of his house. Our daughters don’t want to go, so it’s just the two of us. Daughter Number 1 will drive us down to Woods Hole where we’ll pick up the ferry. Transportation for the week will be Big Blue, our tandem bike. And for once I won’t have to work late the day before vacation to finish up on things — I’m all caught up! Huzzah!

Hopefully, I’ll remain somewhat in touch with all my blogger friends: we’re taking our old World War II era Mac Powerbook with us. It’s one of those ones you have to hand-crank in order to generate power. Legend has it that this was the very Powerbook Eisenhower used to plot out D-Day. And we’ll have to use dial-up of course, just like my father did, and his father before him. Yep, there’ll be a certain amount of roughing it, but it adds to the charm I think.