On 5/25/2012 8:42 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
> "notbob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I finally did it. Bought a new tracfone and upgraded to camera and
>> broswser capability. I will send my daughter a picture on her
>> birthday, she being convinced I'm a cellphone dunce. Also jes got a
>> new flat panel LCD monitor, my old CRT monitor having died last
>> weekend. Jay-sus! ....I'm being dragged into the 21st century,
>> kicking and screaming.
>>
> LOL! I just cancelled my cell phone service today. It was a ridiculous
> waste of money. I can't get a signal unless I walk to the end of the
> driveway, cross both fingers, hop up and down on one foot while reciting
> poetry We're talking serious lack of cell coverage here. I have a
> land line. No longer a cell phone.


Often it is just a matter of switching carriers since it is pretty
common for the carriers to have different cell site locations. My phone
is on VZW and there are 3 bars when in the basement. tmobile as an
example might be available here if you walk down the street and find
just the right spot and don't move.

>
>> Also bought a doz organic eggs from Safeway. The org eggs from Kroger
>> were abysmal, not even as good as their cheapo eggs.
>
> I'll jump on the non-organic bandwagon. It's a marketing scheme designed
> to make you pay more for eggs. Unless you were there throughout the
> process, how do you know the eggs are organic?
>
>> Ya' can't deny yer palate.
>>
>> nb
>>
> Sure you can. Except when you get a craving for lemon bars
>
> Jill