what is my phone for anyhow?
Oct. 21st, 2004 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kamomilI am seriously thinking of getting my landline phone disconnected. About 75 per cent of messages left on my machine are hangups. I am not sure which of those are friends or telemarketers. What good is a landline if no one wants to leave a message on my machine, and I'm never home to answer it? (except Mcgraw, he was nice & left me Actual Messages.) I have Call Display too, I know many of my friends by their work or cell numbers by now, but the dratted telemarketers call on numbers that when you call them, are "not in service." So I have a device for telemarketers to reach me. Great.
No one wants to text message me except Marnie, otherwise text messaging would be an awesome alternative. People could leave me a message that I could read quickly at work, but I don't have to interrupt my work too much to respond. (I move around from room to room at work so calling me at work would be awkward.) Rogers and Bell allow text messages to be sent for free from their websites, but I can't respond. But my dad has texted me the odd time and it's been useful.
I am still on dialup so I would look into a "lite" high-speed internet service. However I am being contacted by the gov't for a Stats Can survey so maybe I will hold off for now.
No one wants to text message me except Marnie, otherwise text messaging would be an awesome alternative. People could leave me a message that I could read quickly at work, but I don't have to interrupt my work too much to respond. (I move around from room to room at work so calling me at work would be awkward.) Rogers and Bell allow text messages to be sent for free from their websites, but I can't respond. But my dad has texted me the odd time and it's been useful.
I am still on dialup so I would look into a "lite" high-speed internet service. However I am being contacted by the gov't for a Stats Can survey so maybe I will hold off for now.
