Gone camping
We spent most of the weekend camping in Milo McIver State Park, which is just far enough away from Estacada, Oregon so there wasn't even the slightest chance of getting a wireless signal (and I forgot to bring my mile-long extension cord and ethernet cables, so I couldn't go and beg for a network connection from one of the little mini-ranches that border the park,) which forced me to actually enjoy myself doing something that did not involve the computer.
And after five years of occasional camping, we finally got it right and took everything we needed and not much of what we didn't need (the final items were replacing the little 4 person dome tent [4' headroom] with a bigger 6-person tent [6'4" headroom, which is very nice for 6'1" me] and building a roofrack for the prius so we didn't have to cram everything into the trunk and back seat.) The only thing which went wrong was that even though we sleep on old flat futons at home (and I've been known to sleep comfortably on hardwood floors) I've reached the sort of point of decrepitude where it's just not comfortable sleeping on a tent floor. But that was really the only defect (and it doesn't look like anyone makes a lightweight collapsable queen or king-sized platform bed, so it's not a defect that can be easily corrected unless I learn how to weld aluminium) in a nice relaxing weekend which I went into fearing that it would be exhausting without being fun, leaving me stressed out when I returned to the Most Exciting Job in the World™ on monday morning.
And, as a bonus, being away from the computer for a day and a half meant that the constant pains in my right arm and the right side of my body went *poof* until I returned home and fired up the laptop of destiny. This is good in that I've now got pretty solid evidence pointing at this chronic pain as the mother of all carpal tunnel problems, but it's bad in that I'm a computer programmer and it would be hard for me to continue to work if I can't actually type at a computer (I've already completely stopped using mice and trackballs, and what little pointer twiddling I do is done with a Wacom tablet, a twiddle stick, or the narsty little glidepoint pad on my Macbook. It makes it more interesting to look at the web, but it keeps me away from Windows at work, which is an almost complete win except when I have to use Windows for some "you have to use windows to read this webpage because Windows is the company standard !" work requirement.