I wish I knew what it was that has ended my long period of peace and quiet. A few years back when I signed onto the national “Do Not Call” list the telemarketing calls to our house virtually ended. Once in a while (maybe three of four times a year), a telemarketing call would come [...]

It’s been pretty quiet around here on the telemarketing front. I have not received any more calls from the numbers I have discussed here recently. Perhaps CitiMortgage/CitiBank, whom I blame for the recent rash of telemarketing calls, has filtered out the information to their partners that I do not want to be bothered with their [...]

Sometimes when dealing with a certain organization or company, you just get a “feeling.” The kind of feeling that tells you that you should be extra cautious in all your dealings with them. Unfortunately, I did not get the feeling where this particular company (or companies) is concerned until it was too late. I had [...]

While watching Channel 9 News the other evening I saw one of those stories that I just have to comment about. This is a perfect example of the kind of story that can get me cursing and making obscene gestures towards the TV. The story is set in Hampton, NH, where cats and other small [...]

When high-speed Internet was introduced in my area about 6 years ago, I was thrilled to finally dump my slow dial-up service. There was one thing, however, that I really missed about my old dial-up service. I was getting my dial-up service from Earthlink (formerly Mindspring) back then and they had a very nice spam [...]