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You've had too much of 2007:: You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. You have a list of 15 phone #'s, to reach your family of three. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?" Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea. You check your blow dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home. Every commercial on television has a website address at the bottom of the screen.