Phone problems again. Looks like I will be cancelling my business phone. I called the company to see if they could merge my accounts, but they were unable to do so. They told me they could, but instead they ended up unmerging the two accounts I already had merged, basically driving up my payment by about half. I was fairly unhappy to hear about that, more irritated than unhappy. I am thinking about doing the BT thing, maybe cancelling the business phone and going with a regular land line. See if I can get any discounts for that. I know it will cost me a bit up front but in the long run, actually after the first three months it will be saving me money to do it that way. The BT home phones might be a good deal, but if not there are other choices out there, depending on where you live. I think any home telephone system will be much better than keeping the cell line and paying extra for it. If they aren’t able to consolidate then I will just go ahead and drop it. Probably the smart thing to do anyway.

The regular phone I am still not sure about, but a friend was suggesting I buy BT synergy business phones and I am looking into what they have. However, I haven’t honestly got that far yet. I will have to give it some thought. I know that if I look into land line I am probably going to have to think about different companies too. I have heard of ones like Brite Telecom and ATT, not sure if they are the same type of thing though. Guess I just have more research to do. That’s no surprise as I always have lots of research going on at any one time. Almost too much sometimes, I think I could almost stand in for an encyclopedia. Although my attitude would probably turn users off pretty fast. You want to know what? Look it up! Oh, sorry, forgot that’s what I am for. Then of course I would turn around and start doing other things. See, definitely not something I should be doing.

If I did, I would most likely get a digital phone. I don’t know much about them other than they sound a heck of a lot better than a regular phone. I like a lot of the features you can get with them now too. A digital wireless phone might be a good thing to have, that way when you got home you could even just forward all your cell cals to the home phone. I guess that would work both ways, when you are out you could forward calls to your cell that way you wouldn’t miss anything.

I said you wouldn’t miss anything, I didn’t say you couldn’t still ignore all those people you didn’t want to talk to anyway. I think everyone I know screens their calls anymore. It is just not worth the trouble, about the time you just answer, some idiot is trying to sell you something in the middle of dinner.

I learned my lesson a long time ago. Anymore if I don’t know the number then they can leave a message. And if it’s important they will, then I may give them a call back. I may not. Besides here you get charged when you answer or when you make a call so if I am paying for it then I am certainly going to want to be in control of it. Therefore, call screening. You can do the same with a digital home phone as I understand it, which would work out well, as long as it was one of those cordless phones.