This happened awhile ago however; I forgot to mention it on this blog. Being the big geek that I am, I decided to try out VoIP. Since my cable company doesn’t offer VoIP with their cable service, I went with Vonage as my provider. Unfortunately, I ran into problems right away. For some reason, my phone conversation was constantly being dropped. I narrowed the problem down to the fact that my internet connection was loosing packets like crazy. Using this information I tried to call my cable company (Adelphia) however; they were of no help. Since the packets were dropping off somewhere outside of my local area, they were unable to help me with the problem. Needless to say, I had to get rid of my VoIP connection and go back to the regular landline. When I went back to the landline, I ran into another problem. Since I cancelled my Vonage service while I was in the process of transferring my number, I lost my phone number! At first, I was disappointed that I had lost my number.

Like the big geek that I am, I decided to turn this problem into another geek adventure. When I established my new number, I asked the operator for something that ended in 8486. In case you haven’t caught on, 8486 spells TiVo. So, now I have a new number XXX-8486! Yes that’s correct, I am so addicted to TiVo that I switched my number so that it spells out TiVo. I know it is sad but it is true ;).