the joys of skype

bwe’s in atlanta until sunday at a conference, so we decided to give skype a try. normally, when one of us is out of town, phone calls are a drag for the first couple of days as we go from “leaving the gym, be home in 30 minutes, yes i can run by the store” conversations to longer, more in depth “how was your day/recap” conversations.

skype fixed that. i’ve been using skype with my webmaster for a couple of weeks to make things easier on collaboration, but bwe had never really seen it (except on oprah. oprah could endorse cat shit as an exfoliant and people would go for it!). once we got past the initial coolest-thing-ever stage, conversation was good, mostly normal, and even productive. i’m shopping for health insurance, as well as plane tickets to houston and boulder, and was able to do all of that without having to mess around with moving windows or anything like that. the skype window stayed right on top, so i could still look up and talk “to” her without having to go through the whole, “hang on, lemme get the window pulled back up, crap i minimized it” thing.

so, if you’ve got friends or family in far and distant lands (or texas), get hooked up with skype. its free, easy to use, and pretty damned cool.

over & out. gotta go find some cat shit…