Harumph.

I didn't get to speak to my mother on Mother's Day this year. I called, got immediately kicked to voicemail, and left a message for her to call me on my cell phone since I was on the road with Erica en route to her parents' place. Later, I found out why the phone line was busy.

My sister had decided to spend the heaviest day of phone traffic in the United States using her dial-up line to download music from iTunes. By a rough calculation, this tied up the phone line to my mom's house for a minimum of five hours. On Mother's Day.

Thanks, sis.