Ahhh, and so the story continues.

Last week, Verizon had sales folks walking the neighborhood to sign folks up for FIOS, which has jsut come to our neighborhood. Takes 15 to 20 minutes to sign up.

HA! When I did it, on Saturday, the sales guy was amazed, it took over an hour and a half!

Little did he know, on Sunday I got a phone call, some of the stuff didn't go through and it took another 35 minutes on the phone.

Now, I decided that it made sense to go with a generic email rather than use the provider and keep changing email address. So yesterday I set up a gmail account, notified the 152 folks in my address book, changedc 5 forums, Facebook, etc.

Within 3 hours, gmail had disabled my account. No explanation. Took me ages to find ways to contact them (no, not by phone, by email support!) and I eventually received a message that they could not re establish the account, I'd have to set up a new one. HUH?

Later, I learned that you MUST have a mobile phone with text messaging to have a gmail account; but they don't SAY that anywhere on the sign up pages or in their Terms of Service. Was that why I was dropped? No idea.

So this morning, I go through the routine with my Yahoo email address. Except my message included a typo, so my new email addy reads
xxxx @ yahool.com See that "l" on the end of yahoo? Guess it is a combination of aol and yahoo?

So of course, all 152 folks are emailing me asking what my new email address is: is it really yahool? Or did I mean yahoo?

So this last blip is one of my own creation and not exactly what you were getting at, Laura, but this is life at my end, ha haa. Ya have to laugh, otherwise you'd be bald with tearing your hair out!

BTW, gmail would import my email address book; yahoo won't, so I'll be typing all 152 in. Grrrr