long distance update

at the moment, I believe I am finally free from the deathhold of primus. all of my telecommunications are now safely with bell. I am sure primus will continue to send bills for a while, but that is okay, I have been missing our daily telephone chats, so the erroneous bills will at least give me an excuse to phone swapnil and catch up.

for a few days, however, we were in a no-mans land of long distance. the end result was that we were required to place all our calls using the operator. now you may think this sounds old-fashioned and quaint, but let me tell you, long distance operators today clearly have something better to do with their time than place long distance calls. such franco-canadian surliness like I have never heard before! usually they would yell at me for not dialing the number myself, though sometimes I was spared their ire and they would just disconnect me (sir, you dial one plus your number, you are not requiring operator for this call. goodbye.) thanks bell!