It's strange and in some ways makes me feel a bit disconnected.

That's the ironic thing about it, too. A number of people think of "settling down" as "growing roots", as in getting to know the locals, becoming one of them, and blah. blah. blah. But in my experience, both personal and watching others, growing roots means you can't follow the other tumbleweeds, and slowly but surely means falling out of touch with everyone they didn't root down with.

Oh, don't mind me. I've just gotten into a lonely spell recently; seeing old friends and all that. So, I think I have your voip number around, when were the good times to call again?