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My landline doesn’t get much use anymore, and so it is really hard to justify paying the monthly fee – especially when I have to deal with billing issues as described in the last couple of posts.  But I’ve had the same number for well over ten years and don’t want to lose it.

Here’s a brief recap of my situation I discussed in my previous post. Up until about a year ago, I was paying five cents per minute through MCI for local toll calls (calls over 20 miles away, but still in Southern California), while my long distance calls were being handled by AT&T. I then called [...]

Back in February 2009, we decided to take a closer look at the local and long distance services on our landline.  We had AT&T for local and long distance service, but MCI for our “local toll” service (for calls outside a 20 mile radius from home, but still in Southern California).  So we called AT&T [...]

During disasters, I try to get information from as close to the source as possible, rather than the television news which is often second hand.  Here’s a few links that I use for the Southern California mountains: Twitter feeds:  SanBernardinoNF, AngelesNF, inciweb – for the Sheep Fire, use #Sheep_CABDF Wrightwood Forum – a great local forum with [...]

My water heater went out in May 2008.  Obviously when that happens, there’s not a lot of time to do research on what to get as a replacement.  Since my travels that day brought me closer to Lowe’s, I picked up one of their Whirlpool models they carry – a 50 gallon gas heater with [...]

With a cold storm coming down from the Arctic, it was raining all day and the temperatures never got above the 40s here in Southern California.  This is the first time I recall in over 15 years that the daytime high never went above 50.  The mountain areas have been in the 20s all day [...]