Sandra's mother and father returned from the Cape yesterday morning. Her doctor has scheduled some follow-up evaluations.

Whenever we discuss someone else's life, particularly someone's health, we walk up to the line of privacy and may occasionally step over it. The challenge is to keep family and friends informed while respecting the privacy that each person deserves. We may make mistakes, but they're always in the spirit of trying to be helpful.

I had a nice chat with Beverly at the Cardigan PEI post office. I'd called to find more about continuing to have their mail forwarded down here. "And how is Woody?" she asked. Cardigan is a town of 200 on the east coast of the island.

We had a few snow flurries last night, just enough to remind us who is in charge.

This morning Mozilla released its 1.0 version of Firefox, an excellent web browser. It has better security that Internet Explorer and some nice features, such as tabbed browsing. It also supports a number of extensions, add-on utilities that make web browsing easier and more fun. I've used early versions since June and quickly made it my default browser. If you're interested, you can find out more at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/. A note of caution, though - the servers are apt to be very busy today because of the new release.