{"id":14413,"date":"2013-06-30T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=14413"},"modified":"2013-07-01T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:02:59","slug":"skype-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/06\/30\/skype-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

What was supposed to be a scheduled Skype video chat between my family here and our relatives in Hungary became more of an impromptu stand-up routine with only half the participants. My mother, sister and I exchanged prop-comedy with my cousin, G\u00e1bor, and his wife, Kati.<\/p>\n

A half-hour exchange became, as usual, twenty-five minutes of show-and-tell silliness ending with five minutes of “So, how are things?”<\/p>\n

My cousin showing off a book of portraits of his family was a nice touch to end the show with.<\/p>\n

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What was supposed to be a scheduled Skype video chat between my family here and our relatives in Hungary became more of an impromptu stand-up routine with only half the participants. My mother, sister and I exchanged prop-comedy with my cousin, G\u00e1bor, and his wife, Kati. A half-hour exchange became, as usual, twenty-five minutes of … <\/p>\n

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