Cutting the cord

We're cancelling our regular telephone service and replacing it with... nothing. No more land lines to The Estate at Louisville. Anyone who wants to reach us, will need to do so by our cellular phones. Loyal Readers who do not have my cell phone number may feel free to send me an e-mail or to call the old land line and get the forwarding number from there.

For some, this may seem like a bizarre thing to do. Some people I deal with here in Tennessee have had the same telephone number for fifty years or more. They still give out their numbers with letter mnemonics (like "Transylvania 6-5000") left over from the days when phone numbers changed from being four or five digits long to the current seven. But people my age and younger seem more willing to change phone numbers (or change in general, which is a different topic entirely). The Wife and I had only cellular service when we lived in California and now that we've found a provider of decent quality here, we're happy to do so again.