About three months ago (maybe more) I was on Travelocity getting a flight for my wife to go audition for an opera company somewhere when I noticed an ad for cruises across the top when I was done. Well, I’m always one for proving to myself that I’m able to do less with today’s money than I want, so I priced one. It really wasn’t so bad if I got it several months out, and it seemed to keep going down as I looked at the future dates. So I followed the chart down, down, down and then, one week, it started to go back up again. The week that it was the lowest price?

Our wedding anniversary.

Any husband knows what must be done when that happens. So this week I’ll be gone and away from the Internet, and computers, and the news, and life in general, and will be hopping around the Caribbean pretending I’m richer than I am, more athletic than I want to be, and more thoughtful of a husband than any man could have been (“It’s an anniversary gift!” is far more presentable than “It’s the only week we could afford it!”).

So we’ll be taking off on Sunday on the Carnival Conquest for the Grand Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Mexico. This should be quite fun.

As to why the world might care, I think I might turn on comment moderation on the various sites I’ll be abandoning (though, Akismet is doing a great job of getting the spam these days). I’ll clean through the comments and my email when I get back at any rate.

Enjoy Leopard, folks. The betas were quite fun and I can only guess at the quality of the GM since Apple isn’t giving a copy to us developers. Anyway, I’ll know when I get back.