You're silly. I wasn't nagging about getting them back, just making sure what I didn't need to buy in duplicate. I have coupons for Costco dvds and was checking my lists is all...

Least interesting blog on the internet!

Oh, come on. The last time I saw any research on this it said that well over half of all blogs are never read by anybody other than the author (if that!).

We're in the middle of the move stuff: we're in Kansas, we have a house on which we close in ten days (if we can get the paperwork sorted out). We've been trying out local eateries and Max is getting to know his cousins (in sequence, fortunately, not all at once!) and still having mixed feelings about the whole move thing.

I know you weren't nagging, Dail, but the R.C. has been making pointed remarks about my inexplicable inability to get a 1-lb box to the post office for the past month or two. :) She disapproves of procrastination.

Anyhow, it's so tacky to borrow things and keep them forever!

Ah, yes, Jonathan, but if no one but you reads your blog, then the one reader it has, you, is probably interested in what you have to say. Which means the readership is 100% satisfied. :D Outside readers are a great responsibility.

I was thinking last night--drat, I forgot to wish Jonathan and his family luck with the relocation! I was thinking of sending you an email, asking how it was going. Kansas is going to be very different for Max. I'm glad you all have family in the area so he's meeting other kids already.

Heck--as far as that goes, Kansas is going to be a big change for all of you! Will you be blogging your culture shock?

What culture shock? People here and there love fireworks, family, god(s) and local food (I had chicken-fried steak Monday!). Hilo is the "big city" in East Hawai'i, most of which is very rural; Pittsburg isn't the biggest 'burg around (Joplin is) but PSU carries a lot of local weight. People here and there think 'coasters talk and move too fast, complain too much and are too liberal. People here and there complain about politics, but love their representatives....

I could go on, probably, but I won't.

That said, there are times when I feel like I've moved back to the first world: shopping is a big one. Language, too. It's nice moving in the summer, so the thermal shock is delayed. Max just had a blast (so to speak) doing fireworks with his cousin, who's down visiting his grandparents on the farm. I'm taking pictures of local wildlife and new vistas, new bugs and a whole new pallatte.

We have a house, we close the deal next Friday. We're going up to KC for a few days to visit pseudo-family (Max's godparents, and Woody's closest friends) who we've seen only twice in the last four years.

We're happy to be here, but the geography is the biggest change. Not too much else to notice, yet.