--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do any of you have VOIP for phone service? I'm > > > thinking of switching over because of the cost, but > > > I'd like to hear what others' experiences are before > > > doing so. Please respond even if you think you're not > > > enlightened. > > > > I don't know anything at all about VOIP, but I've > > been discovering the joys of Skype lately. I was > > a holdout, wary of the spyware origins of its > > creator, but our IT department at work passed it > > with flying colors and I hear it was just purchased > > by Ebay. Basically it's free telephony, over the > > Internet. You can actually dial out to real phones > > as well, and there is a charge for that, but I haven't > > ever had to pay for it because all of the people I > > talk to on the telephone are also computer nerds, so > > we can just talk computer to computer. > > Do you tell them Woody Allen jokes? (Skype-enabled Cam sitting handy > in the background.)
I tell them all the jokes I hear. They do the same for me. It's kind of a mutual keep-ourselves- laughing society. Or sometimes we tell each other those hearwarming stories you hear from time to time, to help share the light. Like this one, about the bond between a little girl and some construction workers, that makes you believe that we can make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time. A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot. The young family's 5-year old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next-door and spent much of each day observing the workers. Eventually, the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When the girl got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own paycheck at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew building the house next door to us." "My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?" The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the fucking sheet rock . ." Kind of brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
