IM home

Mom and Dad finally got onto Yahoo! Messenger and we had our first family messaging session today. It's strange how other friends of mine and their families have been doing this (in addition to voice chats and webcams and Internet telephony) for so long while my family have stayed in touch purely by email and phone calls. Still, better late than never. My folks found this cool (who wouldn't) and the only things that prevent us from staying online chatting away are the time zone differences and the ISP billing back home (unlike the T1 and DSL/Cable modem connections at school or work that we all are used to here). Seventh heaven right now. And the few thousand keystrokes exchanged today have also had a more positive impact on my work. Am picturing myself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies ...