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azurelunatic) wrote2003-10-09 12:38 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-10-09 12:38 pm
Phone (and why I never call at any human hours)
Note that our household has two, maybe three phone numbers.
One is the Temple landline, that which we've had since nearly day 1, that which contains the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Assorted people have this number; assorted people probably should have this number and don't; assorted people don't have this number. This number does not have long distance. At all. Never has. We've been using calling cards. We've been broke and barely scraping through, most of the time, and the added charge of long distance, plus that when I do get on the phone, I talk... let's just say that it's been proven, in the past, that leaving me with pay-per-minute long distance without access controls is a bad thing that should never be repeated. We've been using calling cards. These show up on caller ID as some funky number, possibly out of Colorado.
The second (well, maybe third) is the number that's associated with my little cellphone that used to have the Cricket service. It's changed a number of times, because, hey, broke college student family, prepaid phone service. Anyone who's had this/these numbers is a pretty broad range of anyone. This phone's service lapsed at the beginning of the month again. At one point, it had 500 minutes of long distance per month. It is this way no longer.
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votania's cellphone, which is necessary for her now that she's an in-charge type person at work. It has unlimited long distance. This phone is what I use when calling people. My access to it is limited to when votania and I are both at home, however.
This means that I can only call people on her days off when I'm not in school, mornings when I'm not in school and she hasn't left for work yet, or evenings when I'm home after she's gotten home. This doesn't add up to much in the way of sane calling times. It also means that if you try to call me back based on the caller ID info from when I call, you'll get the cellphone, which isn't ideal for callbacks. If I'm home, the landline is more reliable; if she's not home, you'll get her on the cellphone.
Furthermore, on the days when she's home, she's generally home those days because I have to be in school, and she has to watch the Little Fayoumis. So... yeah.
I really need to come up with a table of times showing when stuff is going on, don't I.
One is the Temple landline, that which we've had since nearly day 1, that which contains the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Assorted people have this number; assorted people probably should have this number and don't; assorted people don't have this number. This number does not have long distance. At all. Never has. We've been using calling cards. We've been broke and barely scraping through, most of the time, and the added charge of long distance, plus that when I do get on the phone, I talk... let's just say that it's been proven, in the past, that leaving me with pay-per-minute long distance without access controls is a bad thing that should never be repeated. We've been using calling cards. These show up on caller ID as some funky number, possibly out of Colorado.
The second (well, maybe third) is the number that's associated with my little cellphone that used to have the Cricket service. It's changed a number of times, because, hey, broke college student family, prepaid phone service. Anyone who's had this/these numbers is a pretty broad range of anyone. This phone's service lapsed at the beginning of the month again. At one point, it had 500 minutes of long distance per month. It is this way no longer.
The other phone is
votania's cellphone, which is necessary for her now that she's an in-charge type person at work. It has unlimited long distance. This phone is what I use when calling people. My access to it is limited to when votania and I are both at home, however. This means that I can only call people on her days off when I'm not in school, mornings when I'm not in school and she hasn't left for work yet, or evenings when I'm home after she's gotten home. This doesn't add up to much in the way of sane calling times. It also means that if you try to call me back based on the caller ID info from when I call, you'll get the cellphone, which isn't ideal for callbacks. If I'm home, the landline is more reliable; if she's not home, you'll get her on the cellphone.
Furthermore, on the days when she's home, she's generally home those days because I have to be in school, and she has to watch the Little Fayoumis. So... yeah.
I really need to come up with a table of times showing when stuff is going on, don't I.