• I've spent the last few weeks trying to keep up with deadlines for two new Sesame Street books I'm working on. After spending 8 to 12 hours a day drawing, keeping up with a web log comes after catching up on the dishes.

A week ago, friends living in Maebashi, Japan called me. They have recently installed Skype onto their PC. Butch and Keiko convinced me to install it onto my Macintosh. Since then, we have talked several times - at no charge when calling from computer to computer. How did we live before the internet?