Ready to Roll

What a frantic week it's been, making last minute arrangements to cancel cable a few days before we leave (NOOOOOOO!!!!), newspapers, long distance phone service. We leave on Monday the 17, with more suitcases that the airline will let us take.

I'm amazed at the ease of maintaining communications contact. In addition to email, online banking, instant messaging, and global transmission of documents, we have signed up for skype, an internet ph0ne company. For a nominal cost, we can call, and receive calls from, any phone anywhere in the workd. It seems to work (although our tests have so far involved callng the family room from the kitchen). Our kids will do better from the other side of the world than I did at summer camp two hours away.