John is in Boston this week on business. Alex and I are flying up this weekend to be with him for his birthday and Father's day, but since John was going to be gone for a couple of days before we get there, we setup our two computers to do video phone calls. We tried it last night and it was awesome! Alex really got a kick out of seeing his daddy on the computer screen. He even kissed the screen a few times. This is going to make all the difference for Alex when John goes out of town in the future. Usually when John is gone, Alex gets a little sulky at night, knocking on the garage door hoping Daddy will come through it any minute or carrying around a wrinkly picture of John all day long. Kid is seriously attached to his father. Now he can give John night night kisses before he goes to bed. Totally worth John having to pay the $13 WIFI fee to the hotel in my opinion.
I can't seem to get over the Jeston-ness of it all. It really felt like I was in Star Trek or something. I'm getting to be such an old fart, in awe of these new fangled technical gadgets. Alex will likely not even remember a time before video phone. I imagine telling him of the good old days when all we could do is hear the person on the other end of the line. When I was a kid, I actually used a rotary phone. And it had a cord. You know, a curly springy cord that was about 20 feet long that got all knotted up in the middle. I didn't even have a mobile phone until I was 16, and it weighed about 10 pounds. It was so much work, calling someone barefoot, uphill both ways. I can just hear him now "Wow, that's so old fashioned!"
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