For most people in the UK the last weekend of August rhymes with holiday as this is the last Bank Holiday weekend before Christmas. For me this year it doesn’t mean much. I don’t really have plans. And although I’ve got quite a lot of things to do – my laundry, releasing latest version of Cobertura for J2ME, working on my Java developer certification, books to read, play the Playstation, buy bookshelves -, I don’t look forward to it so much. My girlfriend being on a different continent, doesn’t give me the same perspective on free time. On the bright side, I’ll see her in two weeks and we’ll go and spend a weekend in the Big Apple. How cool is that?