Better Late.

My rule is, if I'm still awake from the previous day, it still counts.

Yet again, my family educates me about neato stuff. I'd talked to my dad on the phone last week, and he'd mentioned that most of the family had Skype, so we could all conference call, and it was cool--particularly since the folks just moved to Florida, and my sister and her guy were traveling around Europe. So I downloaded the installer, and promptly forgot about it.

Today, messing around on Facebook (another thing my sibs got me on), I get a message from my sister's boyfriend's account, telling me their Skype login. I took the hint, and actually ran the installer and set up my own account.

20 minutes later, I was having a conversation with my dad in Florida and my sister in Germany. I was doing this from my laptop, at work.

I freaking love technology.

I didn't get the webcam set up--it was working, but this being my first "call," I didn't want to make it too complicated. But now I want to get it going. How fun would that be! I can already imagine Skype RPG sessions, calling my girlfriend up to say goodnight, saying hi to my niece....

Being more social sure is more appealing to me when I get to use a computer to do it.

~j