Ok faked you out - I was too tired last night to do anything but watch reruns of LAW & ORDER. So two posts today.
While we were watching Dean said, "That's your last LAW & ORDER!" and he meant it. We are switching off of cable to internet service for phone, internet and data. How will this change our lives? TV withdrawal, but not really. We will just have to be more purposeful about choosing what we want to watch rather than floating thru 300 channels. As Dean says, "I'll do more reading." Honestly that's a spectacular thing.
The other difference will be no more robo-calls. We literally do not receive real calls on our landline anymore. So all day long and at certain specific times like 8:52 every morning it will ring and the caller ID will say "private caller" or "unavailable" or some out of state number. Like dystopian prospective fiction we are living in a world where no one else seems to be out there but telemarketers and IRS tax scam artists. "I'm calling to tell you you've just won an all expenses paid...lower your interest rates by....last chance for chimney cleaning and...."
It was creepy when we were watching TV and an ad for a lower back pain remedy came on and the next day I received a call that which announced, "This is a follow up call for the lower back brace you ordered last night." Creepy - especially since I do have lower back pain, but then so do 75% of people my age. Even so it seemed someone was monitoring us even though we don'w own a smart TV.
We've taken to picking up the calls some times and just letting them sit and stew on the other end. The other day it was an anonymous California number, so I did this leaving the phone in the cradle and then walking across the room. But then I heard a faint, "Mom, mom, pick up the phone its me your son." He'd called from his girlfriend's number.
While we were watching Dean said, "That's your last LAW & ORDER!" and he meant it. We are switching off of cable to internet service for phone, internet and data. How will this change our lives? TV withdrawal, but not really. We will just have to be more purposeful about choosing what we want to watch rather than floating thru 300 channels. As Dean says, "I'll do more reading." Honestly that's a spectacular thing.
The other difference will be no more robo-calls. We literally do not receive real calls on our landline anymore. So all day long and at certain specific times like 8:52 every morning it will ring and the caller ID will say "private caller" or "unavailable" or some out of state number. Like dystopian prospective fiction we are living in a world where no one else seems to be out there but telemarketers and IRS tax scam artists. "I'm calling to tell you you've just won an all expenses paid...lower your interest rates by....last chance for chimney cleaning and...."
It was creepy when we were watching TV and an ad for a lower back pain remedy came on and the next day I received a call that which announced, "This is a follow up call for the lower back brace you ordered last night." Creepy - especially since I do have lower back pain, but then so do 75% of people my age. Even so it seemed someone was monitoring us even though we don'w own a smart TV.
We've taken to picking up the calls some times and just letting them sit and stew on the other end. The other day it was an anonymous California number, so I did this leaving the phone in the cradle and then walking across the room. But then I heard a faint, "Mom, mom, pick up the phone its me your son." He'd called from his girlfriend's number.
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