Just a quick post to marvel at the wonders of technology. Tonight Jenny and I were winding down checking email and RSS feeds. On the laptop, I ended up chatting with my brother Dan in Iowa and my brother-in-law Galen in Nebraska. Meanwhile, Jenny was on the desktop chatting with my sister Lisa and writing emails. She got an email from her brother Nathan, who just arrived in Iraq (and was just starting his day as we ended ours) to which she responded and he responded back; all within 10 minutes. So tonight we had 6 people connected with 6 computers, in 4 locations, in 3 countries (Texans count themselves as a sovereign nation), and 2 continents. It’s pretty amazing to step back and look at what technology allows us to do and how we use it in our daily lives.
We love being Connected! We especially liked seeing Olivia crawl the other day, but we are a little concerned that she might think that we live inside the computer!
And for all those who think we just goof off on the computer we were bidding on some sheep last night on an online auction and did buy them when the bidding ended this afternoon. I got very little done today, amid the cell phone calls and watching the time run out on the lots of sheep we bought.