<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item><title>Cottage Week</title><description>I'm back from a week off near Haliburton, Ontario (Carnarvon, actually, but most online maps don't seem to have Carnarvon).&amp;nbsp; We rented a cottage for the week, first time I've done that, and I have a few things I want to do differently next year:&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Find one with Air Conditioning.&amp;nbsp; Yeah I know, you're supposed to be roughing it.. but when it's 42 degrees with the humidex, it's hard to have any fun.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Figure a time of year when bugs are less active.&amp;nbsp; We couldn't go outside between 6pm and 10pm because of the bugs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Overall we had a great time.&amp;nbsp; I spent some time on the dock in the morning with my coffee and Powerbook playing old arcade games via MAME.&amp;nbsp; Crazy Climber, Super Pac Man, Pepper II.&amp;nbsp; The kind of stuff I love doing and wouldn't normally spend time doing. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item>