A few days ago while driving home from work – using my headset so that I could keep both hands on the steering wheel, of course – I was making phone calls.  One was to determine the process we will be going through to move Mr. A's cell phone service from Verizon to T-Mobile.  I had also decided to call DirecTV to see if I could reduce our channels in an effort to save some money.   The cost for DirecTV… Read the rest

I decided to try out MagicJack Plus a couple of weeks ago.  I received the equipment in the mail, but I have not hooked it up yet.  I began looking into it because our broadband service provider has decided to discontinue the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) line that we've had for the past couple of years. There is a slight difference between MagicJack and MagicJack Plus. From what I understand, MagicJack needs to be plugged into a computer and… Read the rest

Several months ago I signed up for a United States post office box.  My main reason in procuring the box was to use for blogging purposes.  Therefore I don't plan to use the box for much and don't anticipate receiving a lot of mail.   I decided to check the box at least once a month. A few times when I was growing up we didn't have mail delivery to our home, but had to go to a post office.  I've… Read the rest