End of the landline for me
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hazelchazDisconnecting my land line, after twenty years. Also the toll-free number.
Up until today, I had 1-800-600-CHAS. Had it for nearly 22 years.
When I moved out of my folks' house, I got an apartment and then another apartment in the same town, then a third apartment in Orange. When I bought the house in Anaheim, my landline was no longer a free local call from anyone I went to high school with. So I kept the ability for my friends to call me for free.
I hadn't anticipated three things: that my friends would all leave town too and scatter to the four winds (no lie, one of my buddies has been Budapest for almost thirty years), that we'd all get cell phones and have free long-distance, and that we'd reconnect via the internet in any event.
The "800-600-CHAS" is also no longer as convenient, now that everybody has phones with a "Z" on them. They'd be trying to spell out 2429 instead of 2427.
The toll-free line was available if Maria ever needed to call home, she didn't need to have any change for the phone. But nobody's called it on purpose in many years, now.
It was an areacode away from a Coca-Cola bottling plant (whose local area code also starts with an 8) and most of the wrong numbers lately had been from them. Previously, it had been an areacode away from Chase bank (888, I think it was).
I kept the land line even though we didn't have any phones connected because a. it would still work with the power out (cf. Internet service) and b. I had the DSL service bundled to it. Now, however, we're getting internet-only U-verse service for the internet, and I'm willing to drive during a power failure to find a working cell tower...
Up until today, I had 1-800-600-CHAS. Had it for nearly 22 years.
When I moved out of my folks' house, I got an apartment and then another apartment in the same town, then a third apartment in Orange. When I bought the house in Anaheim, my landline was no longer a free local call from anyone I went to high school with. So I kept the ability for my friends to call me for free.
I hadn't anticipated three things: that my friends would all leave town too and scatter to the four winds (no lie, one of my buddies has been Budapest for almost thirty years), that we'd all get cell phones and have free long-distance, and that we'd reconnect via the internet in any event.
The "800-600-CHAS" is also no longer as convenient, now that everybody has phones with a "Z" on them. They'd be trying to spell out 2429 instead of 2427.
The toll-free line was available if Maria ever needed to call home, she didn't need to have any change for the phone. But nobody's called it on purpose in many years, now.
It was an areacode away from a Coca-Cola bottling plant (whose local area code also starts with an 8) and most of the wrong numbers lately had been from them. Previously, it had been an areacode away from Chase bank (888, I think it was).
I kept the land line even though we didn't have any phones connected because a. it would still work with the power out (cf. Internet service) and b. I had the DSL service bundled to it. Now, however, we're getting internet-only U-verse service for the internet, and I'm willing to drive during a power failure to find a working cell tower...
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Date: 2013-11-02 01:16 am (UTC)I was up there for a weekend, we discussed it and I had to be back down in Kansas City the next week. Had an AHA moment after seeing a Manor Bakery truck with the phone number. Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, MO both have 842 local exchange numbers. But if you called 815-842-xxxx you got Manor Bakery. If you called 913-842-xxxx. you got a house full of either still-awake-maybe-drunk or sleeping college students answering the phone.
It could happen because until fairly recently the whole north half of Kansas was 913 area code.
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Date: 2014-04-15 03:33 pm (UTC)Oh, if you haven't heard... I've done moved back to Montana. Miss all you guys. Say hi to the gang from me.
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Date: 2014-04-15 05:09 pm (UTC)Well, in any event, I figure people can reach me electronically -- I'm hazelchaz in a number of places, not just LJ -- and if you want to call or text, my pocket phone number spells out 20-MANGY.
(Lynn's is 4.20 Y. U. Hi?)
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Date: 2014-06-04 04:00 pm (UTC)I'm Reziac most places, or occasionally just Rez... (and = rividh at earthlink dot net = always works) And among others there's usually reziac.com, but...
Right now I'm in a WTF with my web hosting (I don't know how what I've been doing there for 7 years with no changes whatever could suddenly become "too much CPU usage", when I don't run anything that uses CPU in the first place!) so my sites are all down. So I'm up for alternatives... you still using, was it Dreamhost? any other thoughts?
(repeat since LJ seems to have messed up when I edited a typo in the original... seems if you edit a reply it gets flagged for moderation and all you can do is delete it.)
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Date: 2014-06-04 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-04 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-04 06:05 pm (UTC)Side note: whatever they've done with the font in the comment box is really making a mess.
End note: apparently it worked!