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The problem with hotel phone systems is they charge you ridiculous rates for even a local call, which is why for long distance calls we have long-distance carrier access code services like AT&T via 101-0288.

[size=8pt]Yup, greetz from the glorious, air-conditioned Red Lion Hotel in Pendleton, which will be my home for part of the next two weeks. It'll be 80 to-morrow, from what I hear....

Not that I'm complaining, considering the weather back on *my* side of the mountains!
 
Services like AT&T via 101-0288 is something I'm not familliar with, and with that I prefer Xfinity as my internet carrier.


I use AT&T for my cell phone, but IMO AT&T internet is slower than cable, but with that said "Here I Go Again" by whitesnake is on, Playing the greatest hits of all time.
 
My internet carrier is Centurylink, and last night they allowed me to listen many times to Whitesnake singing various versions of "Give Me All Your Love Tonight," among other rock classics.
 
Rock classics are meant to be played at maximum volume however there will be a break tonight for a scheduled moment of silence as we take a moment to mark the passing of legendary actor Peter Falk.
 
Legendary actor Peter Falk was also viewed over our internet connection yesterday, because my wife had finished watching all of "The Rockford Files" on Netflix, so she watched "Columbo," then we found out last night he had passed away, coincidentally, and unbeknownst to my wife at the time.
 
Unbeknownst to my wife at the time, while she was watching The Rockford Files (my favorite show too) and Columbo, I was in the other room searching You Tube for Olivia Newton-John videos.
 
The theme to CHiPs plays all the time when we have a chip 'n dip party, which is usually when the geezers get wild and try to throw each other out of their lift chairs by using each others' remotes in the lounge.
 
The early modems had recepticles on them into which you'd put the speaker and microphone of your phone receiver, because of course, back then attaching anything to your phone line except a telephone was considered the Eighth Deadly Sin.

[size=8pt]@quad--
101-0288 is a "carrier access code" for AT&T. See, each long distance company has a seven-digit access code like that, and by dialling these numbers plus the area code and the number you're calling, you can make your call over another long-distance company than the one you're already on. This enables you to "shop around" and try a cheaper carrier, for example, or to use a carrier with better quality lines. It was one of the results of the Bell System's divestiture in 1983-1984. (You may have heard of them them being referred to [somewhat incorrectly] as "10-10 numbers", for example using "10-10-321" gets you the remnants of MCI, but I certainly wouldn't want to run my modem on their noisy lines!)

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interexchange_carrier
 
The Eighth Deadly Sin used to be thought of as attempting to start a new thread to compete with TFWG but now everyone knows better.
 
Now everyone knows better than to explore worn-down paths on foot, because they remembered to bring with them their Mongoose mountain bikes and cases of Orangina.

[size=8pt]Déjà vu: see here. Looking out from my south-facing room here (why didn't I bring my satellite receiver?) I see somebody has cut down some of the overgrown vegetation on that "hiking trail" which made it extremely difficult (flat-out impossible) to travel in some spots last time. Looks like it'll be much easier this time around.

If you don't read any more from me this evening, then, consider it safe to assume that I've been eaten by a rattle-snake!
 
Mongoose mountain bikes and cases of Orangina in a saddle bag, along with Russian made vodka sounds like a plan for camping in the mountains to view the stars and cool one'sr heels for a couple of nights.
 
Camping in the mountains to view the stars and cool one'sr heels for a couple of nights is what we tried to do last week, but the pool at the campground broke, so we ended up going to Asheville.

Which is still in the mountains, of course, but the trip did not involve camping.
I remember 10-10 lines.
 
Ashville is not a spot I ever travelled to during my time in the great state of North Carolina a decade ago but if I knew that the quadraphonic family spent time there I would have gone.
 
I would have gone camping, but when I asked for a bellhop and room service, the man at the entrance looked at me as though I had two heads, but I figure what the heck, two heads are better than one.
 
Two heads are better than one is very much along the lines of something I swear I saw Barney Rubble say to Fred Flintstone on an episode of "The Flintstones" on TBS in the mid-80s.
 
An episode of "The Flintstones" on TBS in the mid-80s will surely have Fred and Wilma, Barney and Betty, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, and Dino and that weird nameless tiger cat all acting luvvy-duvvy by the end of the show.


There WAS a tigerishcat-ish animal occasionally on that show, wasn't there? Or am I thinking of some other show? Maybe I'm thinking of Tiger the dog on The Brady Bunch. :D

Wikipedia says that Baby Puss was the Flintstones' pet sabertoothed cat, rarely seen during the series, but always seen during the end credits throwing Fred out of the house.
 


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