Holidays are great ...

... you don't have to do anything.

Oh I've been poking around in the garden and the yard, playing with Haiku (porting emacs, but not much) and reading lots of blogs about the impending catastrophic failure of western civilisation and drinking and eating too much. And even playing some Uncharted 2 (probably the best game i've ever played to date in all respects, technical, graphical, story, acting, action, aural maybe not but certainly up there).