Today it's been raining buckets, so you know what that means: It's summer! And you know what that means: It's time for vacations and stuff! It's only fitting that tomorrow morning my family embarks on a vacation of all (both) of the usual places. (Which raises the question: If you always go on vacation to the same places, is it still a vacation if you go there?) Okay, we are doing a few things we've never done.

Tomorrow morning we're going to head to my aunt's house near High Springs, Florida, the little town that time forgot but then realized it had lost and, after a moment's pause, just said, "Oh, screw it." On the way, we're going to a winery, because a few people in my family really, really like wine. I've never been to a winery. Wonder if they'll give me a sample of their product to try. I probably wouldn't take it, though. I want my first time to be special.

After arriving at my aunt's place, we'll probably go on a couple of day-long excursions, one of which will be a trip to the historic city of St. Augustine. Yes, that's right: a historic city in Florida. You don't see too many of those in this state. Absolutely nothing in South Florida is more than 100 years old. Virtually no one was here 100 years ago. So it's kind of fun to go to St. Augustine, the oldest city in the U.S. of A., founded by the Spanish in 1565. I have been there before, but it's been a long time.

Another thing we'll probably do is go to Our State's Capital to see Florida State University. (Now that I care slightly more about going to college, I asked if we could also swing by the University of Florida, only to receive the answer: "But we did that already!" Yes, we did it last year, but I didn't give a crap and now I do. Well, you can't judge a school by the way its buildings look, anyway, and that's the only thing we did.) Anyway, if we're going to be in Our State's Capital, we might as well have a look at Our State's Capitol, even though the new capitol is really ugly. Other than those two places, there really isn't anything in the county or the surrounding areas. Not that I know of.

Anyway, after that, we're going to my great aunt's condo for about five days. I don't know what I'm going to do the whole time other than going to the beach and getting sunburned from going to the beach. I'll probably spend too much time on my dad's laptop, in spite of the dial-up connection. We should be back on Sunday, June 4.

You know what's cool? Lucid dreaming is cool. It's when you know that you're dreaming and can control what you do and what happens to you. I don't know how I got to thinking about lucid dreaming, but I guess I remembered it from my psychology class last year. There was this one girl who did some research and wrote a paper about it. She also described a lucid dream that she had.

I might as well try it out. I'm not doing anything else while I sleep. Besides, I really like sleeping, even though I don't get to do it as much as I'd like. Imagine how much more I'd enjoy it if I could go on cool adventures and stuff like that. Yeah. I'll have to start keeping track of my dreams. It'll be fun. Maybe I should start while I'm on vacation. Okay, it's a deal. As a note to myself, here are a few resources: Wikibooks and some other site with lousy creative navigation.

Celebrities with teddy bears. It has to do with cancer.

Is it really possible for a site to get one billion visits? As of writing this, the site has 995,809,397 hits to go. The counter might be stuck, though.

One year ago: "If it was the senior prank after all, I pity them for being so unoriginal."
Two years ago: "I think it's better to go the safe route than eat a dish called 'old clothes.'"
Three years ago: "Tredici is a card game I invented."