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Hi, Merlin.

Hi, John.

I didn't answer like I normally do by just saying hello.

Hello.

Because I knew it was you.

Yeah.

It's always me.

It's always you, but sometimes I'm not sure, even though it says Merlin.

Some people use Skype as a social network, and that troubles me.

You know, every time I log on to my computer now, or every time I open Skype, it has a status report on there from

Brett Terpstra.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know why Skype thinks that I'm wondering what Brett's doing every day.

I do.

Yeah, I think I get that too.

I get that too.

And I find out it's mostly everybody like me angrily announcing to please not bother them because they're on Skype. Yeah, or yeah, it's exactly. It's like, if I'm here, I'm eating breakfast. Sometimes it tells me it's someone's birthday. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, I don't want to have another social network. I really don't. I don't want to have the ones I have.

Oh, I know.

This is one where I feel particularly unplugged from reality, because for years, I've used Skype.

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