It sounds as if the “dual household” arrangement is going to be of relatively short duration. In my case, it’s a long-term thing. I’m moving to Seattle to work for Amazon.com (we must get together when you come up to Redmond!), but Merry’s staying in Boston. Her career isn’t really portable: too deeply embedded in in network of Boston area client, consulting, professional and teaching relationships. So we’re going to be spending a lot of time on planes, and using iChatAV!