We are now off of the grid. Well, mostly. OK, just slightly more off the grid than before. We dropped our home phone for a pair of cell phones. Our monthly outlay for 2 phones sharing 450 minutes is only slightly more than our old phone with 125 minutes plus a land line. Because of the beauty of being able to keep my old numbers, we have the same two numbers and a new wireless carrier, Cingular instead of Verizon.
\nWe were ready to sign up with Verizon again, but they didn’t seem to care to keep us. They advertise “new every two” where if you sign up for a new contract every two years, you get a new phone. They sold us on that 2 years ago when we re-upped then. Well, they now told us that it didn’t apply to us since we only spent $25 a month. “New every two, except for you.” I guess. Cingular gave us two free phones with a contract plus they use the GSM where you can easily transfer you phone book to a new phone when you want to by swapping the GSM card.
\nAnyway, in the absense of anything substantive, there you go. Hopefully better posts later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"