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I realize that plenty of folks aren't scheduling their lives around the public school calendar, but even so there seems to be an increase in vacation-y kinds of activities in the summer months.
I'm curious who has plans, what they are and whether or not they have a geeky component.
This is the last week of school for our boys, which means until mid-August I'll have to find ways to keep them busy and try to get work done at the same time. I tell myself each summer not to stress about maintaining the same productivity level during the summer and I usually stress some anyway. But this year I'm hoping to beat that monkey off my back and give myself permission to fall behind a little. Much of that is about reducing my own stress, but I'd also like to get better at spending time with my boys. Last summer they both enjoyed playing D&D and Heroquest for limited periods. This year they are both much stronger readers and I think might take to geeky board games even more as a result. So I want to give some more time to them if I can.
As for actual vacation, we're taking a trip to Pennsylvania to visit Holly's family in the first half of July. While we're there we're going on a short road trip with a total 10 hrs of driving, so I'm budgeting for the purchase of 1-2 new games to play on my Vita (I don't think I'll be the driver) which I'm very much looking forward to.
And before then is E3, which is kind of like nerd-Christmas for me. Because of the nature of my work I can justify spending a few days in a row learning about new games and just celebrating the hobby in general. It's also something of a social event, as I host an open house for one or more days of the press conferences.
Apart from that, we don't really have plans. We had already budgeted for our trip before the move, and now that the move is done and we're tallying up costs (for both the move and our new status quo of expenses) our budget for family fun is pretty much zero. But the boys don't seem to mind. The house came with a pool and I think that's how they'll gladly spend much of their summer.
How about you?
I'm curious who has plans, what they are and whether or not they have a geeky component.
This is the last week of school for our boys, which means until mid-August I'll have to find ways to keep them busy and try to get work done at the same time. I tell myself each summer not to stress about maintaining the same productivity level during the summer and I usually stress some anyway. But this year I'm hoping to beat that monkey off my back and give myself permission to fall behind a little. Much of that is about reducing my own stress, but I'd also like to get better at spending time with my boys. Last summer they both enjoyed playing D&D and Heroquest for limited periods. This year they are both much stronger readers and I think might take to geeky board games even more as a result. So I want to give some more time to them if I can.
As for actual vacation, we're taking a trip to Pennsylvania to visit Holly's family in the first half of July. While we're there we're going on a short road trip with a total 10 hrs of driving, so I'm budgeting for the purchase of 1-2 new games to play on my Vita (I don't think I'll be the driver) which I'm very much looking forward to.
And before then is E3, which is kind of like nerd-Christmas for me. Because of the nature of my work I can justify spending a few days in a row learning about new games and just celebrating the hobby in general. It's also something of a social event, as I host an open house for one or more days of the press conferences.
Apart from that, we don't really have plans. We had already budgeted for our trip before the move, and now that the move is done and we're tallying up costs (for both the move and our new status quo of expenses) our budget for family fun is pretty much zero. But the boys don't seem to mind. The house came with a pool and I think that's how they'll gladly spend much of their summer.
How about you?
