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The land line conversion was a little more complicated. We get our internet from the phone company, so they had to install a wireless connection. Turns out our neighborhood has been updated with fiber optic cable. So the guy had to go down the street, tap into a box on a pole and run cable back to our house. That cable is run through a hole he drilled in our foundation and connected to a box also mounted on a basement wall. A big box, with lots of lights. From there wire was fished through the walls to a new wall plate he installed to which our modem is connected. After 3 1/2 hours of work by the tech, we were completely wireless.
It's taken some getting used to. First, we both have to remember to keep our phones within reach. I might have mentioned that previously we had a land line connection in all but one room. Now if we leave a cell phone upstairs and hear it ring, we know we're not going to get to it in time. But my philosophy about phones has always been that just because it rings doesn't mean you have to answer it. The same applies to doorbells.
We share 700 minutes a month and since most of our family and friends are with the same provider, we'll never come close to our limit. I may go days without actually calling anyone, although I do get a lot of spam calls, one from 000-000-0000. I've never answered that one because I'm sure that once I do all of my bank accounts will automatically wire themselves to Nigeria.
Watching TV together the other night (we have become Big Bang Theory re-run addicts on TBS) Mrs. Grumpy mentioned how quiet it is without the home phone ringing with nuisance calls. It is indeed. Anyone who needs our numbers has them. The rest of the world can leave us alone.
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I think more people are going wireless. I have thought about it, it might even make more sense in the scheme of things, except my wife can't hear as well on a cell. I talk to people who seem astonished I don't have a cell phone. We don't get many calls; we don't make many calls. In the great scheme of things we have lost our significance and importance. We're getting closer to that group of people who are call-less.
I need your number.
--Drew
Bill, I think I'm reaching that point too. I really call very few people.
Drew, did you read what I wrote? Those who need my number already have it. You having my number will only lead to me getting stupid texts at 3:00 a.m.
I guess maybe I'm just lazy but it sounds like a lot of work to me. We have no internet/alarm system connected to our phone but the many contacts that use our home phone. Some I wouldn't even think about to notify and it could screw us up later. Maybe that's where I should start, with changing those when they come up. Yep, I'm guessing I'm just lazy.
we have become Big Bang Theory re-run addicts on TBS
Come on! That show is awful and you know it.
Great show. Funny, witty writing and the characters are appealing, especially Penny.
We only started watching Big Bang a year or so ago. Before I even saw it, I figured it was stupid. But I love it....and bought Faith a knock knock Penny tshirt last year for Christmas.
So glad you are updated to modern society standards now.
Keeping the home phone. Can't seem to let go. Love Big Bang. Sheldon is the funniest person on TV today. Though Cam on Modern Family is pretty effing funny, too.
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