Summer is FAST approaching this Canadians’ locale and that means vacation planning. But not just any vacation planning, planning for all things summer. Everything you want to do and everything you need to do, to enjoy what little summer there will be before getting hit with another winter slump a couple months later.

Summer is far to short lived to go in unprepared. Sadly, many of us (myself explicitly included) don’t plan ahead and attempt to live for the moment. Which usually ends up being last minute dashes to the lake or beach, and too much time thinking about what you could do, while doing nothing you want to do. Bummer.

Being April 1st, and after noon this is no joke, just foresight. Plan ahead for all things you want to do, and make a date to do them. If you plan ahead, you won’t miss out. I don’t mean plan to cut the grass or anything (but you probably have to do that anyway, as grass does grow), but plan the fun things, and even the non fun things you keep meaning to get to.

Can’t think of anything?

How about these 10 things to do on your summer vacation:

Fun things to do on your summer vacation:

1. Go camping with your son.
2. Bike to the park a few evenings a week.
3. Play some Wii Sports when the weather is not perfect.
4. Restore an old car.
5. Brew your own beer.

Useful things to do on your summer vacation (but not as fun):

1. Re-shingle your garage.
2. Repair your living room ceiling.
3. Build a shelf in your bathroom (your toothbrush will thank-you).
4. Clean out the basement.
5. Plant a garden AND maintain it (weeds know when your sleeping).

Procrastination Alert!

When will you have time to do all that?

Simple. You make the time. Plan ahead, like now, and you have no excuse not to have the time to do everything you want to do with your summer vacation.

But dude, I’m not a kid, I don’t get summer vacation!

DUDE!. MINI-VACATIONS. No need to book weeks off work. You can do it all in the evenings and on weekends. Have your cake and eat it too (whatever that means).

Bottom line?

Stop dreaming. Start doing.

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I hate spam, and anything that looks even remotely similar. Not unusual, I am sure 99.99% of the population hate spam. I hate junk mail too, but at least the post office gives you a way to opt out of most of it (Red Dot - http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/).

Email spam is pretty bad lately. Spam Assasin deletes a large chunk of it before it even makes it to my inbox, but there is still a lot that makes it through, which Thunderbird dutifully scans and deletes. Still a little trickles through, which I durtifully mark as junk and delete it. Annoying process nobody should need to go through.

Here are some interesting stats from Spam Assasin on 2 of my accounts:

- Messages learned: 21218 as spam, 3685 as non-spam, 24903 total.
- Messages learned: 12492 as spam, 436 as non-spam, 12928 total.

Those are some crazy numbers, especially since they are probably only a year old. And they are from only 2 of my accounts. Of those nearly 34,000 spam messages, I have not read 1 (except subject lines), nor clicked any links, nor bought anything from them. Despite this, I know this will never stop.

All attempts to get me to respond to junk mail have failed, just like it fails for most other people. So why does it not stop? Because there is always the 1 in a billion chance some poor schmoe will fall for this crap, and make it worth while for the spammers. I dumb shmuck ruins it for the rest of us.

Aside from emails, blog spam is the next up on the crap block. There is only a super small percentage of blog comments that are real. The rest is spam. It is a wonder why most bloggers even bother enabling comments.

Speaking of which, comments closed.

Myles

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Technorati service has been around the net for years and is a valuable resource. But for some odd reason, I have never used it, nor submitted any opf my blog posts to it. Recently I have been spending a little extra time looking at all sorts of internet news sources, specifically user submitted news services like digg.com and technorati.com.

They have some pretty decent info to be found, and are a good place to list your blogs and blog posts.

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