not much.

[cimorene]

you know what i miss the most about america, barring actual members of my immediate family? domestic phone rates to the us and canada.  dammit.

certain better halves who kept getting side-tracked from hbp-reading all weekend finally finished it last night, and yet i still haven't started it; i actually woke up this morning and started writing. 

Comments

[isilya]

When I was calling the US and Canada all the time, I picked up one of those phone cards that you buy at the supermarket or youth hostels or newsagencies, and the rates were insane: 1 cent per minute, plus, I think, about a 15cent flagfall. Which meant, basically, that I could call the US for an hour at local call rates + $0.75. Which, since our local calls are 15cents and untimed, worked out under a dollar per call.

The upfront fee of $20 (or $30 or $50) can be hard to come up with, but it meant that calling the US or Canada for me wasn't even a deliberation, I could just work out the time zone and call.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hmm, i don't know whether they have anything like that here or not. i'd have to ask wax.

[apoplexia.livejournal.com]

You might want to look into prefixes. There are loads of them in Germany and they undercut the regular rate for international calls massively.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

o.0 :surreptitiously googles: ...nope, all the results are about US area codes. what's a prefix?

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

the prefix is the 994 or 990 or 999 or whatever that comes first. they do have different rates.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ohho. wait, they DO? so it's not wise to pick one at utter random?

i don't have cause to use pouty joe very much but he's so cute!

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on where you're calling, and so forth. It's probably an idea to check what their offers are.

Pouty Joe <3!

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

Goddamnit, it edits out my asscone.

It was like this: Pouty Joe LESSTHANTHREE ASSCONE EXCLAMATION POINT

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yet i am so, so lazy...

[apoplexia.livejournal.com]

Err, that might not be the right word. It's a number you dial to access a cheapo telecom provider rather than the regular one. It's a "vorwahl" in German, if that helps.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

mystery solved.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

I wish I could call you, Sean would love to talk to you on the phone.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

that's what i was thinking, i'd love to hear sean's little voice!