Drive Time: I got into my beautiful gas sucking SUV tonight and looked at my in-dash MP3/CD player and realized that I hadn't even turned it on since getting my iPod. I slip on my ear buds and continue with the great audio book that I am listening too. As I make my way onto the main boulevard I notice a cop coming from the other direction with two cops in the car. Funny, I haven't ever noticed two in a car before. I look into the rearview to watch him pass and notice another one behind me, with two officers. Instinctively I make sure I have my seatbelt on (I did) and wonder if I am doing anything wrong. I look to the parking lot next to the light where I am stopped and there is another cop car, two cops. Across the street another car, two cops. Something is going on, I am glad I live in the country.

I hit the interstate and my daughter pops up an IM window to ask where I am. About 30 minutes out and they know EXACTLY where I am. I can pop up my mobile web cam so that they can see me, or turn it so that they can see where I am. But I pass on the camera, too slow on the mobile net. Another daughter now pops up and asks when I am coming home. I tell her to ask her sister and wonder if she will also IM her, or if she will turn around in her chair and ask.