This message is just for anyone who has the occasion to phone me in the next week or so. For some reason, a few friends who do that have not been able to reach me. They get a recording saying that I have blocked their number, which I have not done. I don't think I've ever blocked any phone number except for a couple of incessant robo-callers who tried ringing me up every eleven seconds.
I've just spent way too long on the phone with the phone people being routed from one phone person to another phone person. None of them knows how to fix it. They only know how to forward me over to someone else who has no idea. The last guy said he's going to "run some tests" and call me back. I'm guessing there's about as much chance of that as there is of Trump getting that Nobel Peace Prize he's sure he deserves but right now, I don't know what else to do.
If you try to phone me and get one of those messages, e-mail or text me and I'll give you an alternate number. It's the gas station at the corner but they'll come and get me.