On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

An unusual thing by modern lights just happened to me. Someone called the family landline. I answered the phone, and the person on the other end responded for apologizing for calling the wrong number.

So that still happens.

And these two latest were from Alabama according to my cleverphone. Both started like this: "Greetings. This is Service Canada. We have placed a suspension on your Social Insurance Number..."

As if Service Canada is going to phone me about anything - by either landline or cellphone - without my having made arrangements with them first. Never mind the idea of them setting up a cubicle farm in Alabama from which to operate!

Nope! Not sorry, not biting!

I will do reverse-lookup, though...

From 2009.

I still say we need them in public places. No matter what Bell's balance sheets seem to say to them.

I finally got a phone call from the "Canadian Taxpayers Federation" last night. I got to tell them "I'm one of those people you have complaints about, so 'no!'" when they asked for a donation.

It was satisfying.

It's going to be far less satisfying to say "no" to the organizations that I want to support when they next call me.

It just hit home: DC Comics is now owned by AT&T.

1. Nice to see Agents of SHIELD moving at a quick pace. Long story, and I want to discuss it further later.

2. Not nice to see all the payphones stripped out of the Rideau Centre. There's two left in the Bay store attached to said shopping mall, and the Customer Service people at said mall advised me to take it up with CRTC. Not sure what happened between them and Bell Canada to allow it to happen, but I do not like it. I may have a cell phone now, but I can't count on always being able to afford access to any cell provider's network.

3. Which reminds me of my ongoing concern about the push of all levels of government to...how do I phrase this? "Ensure that citizens need to have internet access for as many services as possible"? Maybe that would do it?

Feeling a little like Skye from Agents of SHIELD in tonight's installment. No one wants me as a specific person dead, mind you...