Over a month ago I announced that I was taking a “blogging holiday.” The holiday turned out to include 5 posts. At the very least I didn’t feel bad about not posting regularly.

I noticed a few other big bloggers took summer breaks as well — John Reese at Income.com is out for a few weeks. Frank Schiling at Seven Mile is out until September. For one of the most prolific bloggers I read, thats quite a long break!

My blogging vacation included a break from reading blogs too. I blocked bloglines.com on my primary machine and managed to catch up with my RSS subscriptions at the end of the month. This was a welcome break and I am going to keep it that way. Never before has there been so many bloggers posting highly valuable ideas and information, but that doesn’t stop reading from being horribly distracting!

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has another month or so. For some of us it won’t be long until cold weather returns. I am not looking forward to it.