bpetra that is interesting. It may be that he is busy, but he doesn't even go online to read the news like he used to every day and because we had to take down our satellite dish temporarily, there's no tv to watch either, and he used to watch every night, although he stopped watching tv pretty much when we moved so that isn't really related. It's like talking to someone who has shut himself off from the world beyond his own. I have to tell him what is going on in the world. It kind of makes it a bit more difficult to have a normal conversation like we used to.