>>>Are you back in the U.S.?
>>
>>No way. Just kind of hearing bits here and there. One daughter is still there (doing Fox!).
>
>I didn't think you were. Not sure why you would notice a change in U.S. government services from the vantage point of Serbia.

Well most of the news services in the world are owned by the same few corporations... so if shutdown was news (because they thought it was), so would the reboot be.

BTW, just found this joke on the local forum:

Two twin fetuses in a womb talk:

- What do you think, is there life after birth?

- I don't know, nobody ever returned to talk.