Dog boy got into town yesterday evening, so the stinkpig left. It said it will be back probably some time today to get its stuff, but they’ll be here for a week (like I care). P is gone to work, and although the stinkpig spent nearly all of its time in its smelly cave, it still seems strange to know I’m here all alone in the house. Feels almost like the days I’d skip school after Dad was gone to work–like the whole wonderful day was spread out in front of me, all mine to do as I wished with it. Stinkpig still has a key to the front door (which I WILL be getting back once its got its junk out of here), so it could still get in, but it’s twenty past seven and they were probably up half the night, doing things I don’t even want to think about (jeezus, the thought of them nekkid and sweaty–shudder, shudder), so it’s unlikely.

They’re coming next Wednesday to put in the thingie for cable telephone. As much as I don’t like enormous corporations, it’ll be substantially less expensive for us to have our telephone service through the cable company ($118/mo. for digital cable, broadband and telephone with free long distance) than it is to have the services we’ve got now ($130 for digital cable and movie channels we don’t watch, $24 for local phone service, usually around $30-40 for long distance calls that I make), plus I can call anywhere in the contiguous 48 and Canada and talk as long as I want for free. I don’t know anyone in Puerto Rico, but I could call there if I want, too. It’s more expensive to the UK than 10-10-987 (7c/min rather than 39c connect, 3 c/min), but I only rarely make calls to the UK, so that’s really a non-issue. If the number that I have for L. is still valid (dunno), I’m going to call him out of the blue, just for the hell of it. The last time I talked to him was….oh, I think it was 1998, and unless he asked D., he doesn’t even know where I am, so it should come as quite a surprise. I’ll call C., too, though that won’t be much of a surprise except for the fact that I can tell him to ramble on as he likes (and he likes) without having to worry about what it costs. Hell, I may even call people I don’t really like, just because I can. 😆 I do want to call L., though; JD doesn’t look like him at all, but he has certain mannerisms that make me miss an old and dear friend. P. will probably have a conniption fit the first time or two, but he’ll get used to it. I’ve known L. since we were not quite thirteen years old and that’s ample time for anything that could have happened. I don’t think of him that way, though; he’s just interesting and fun to talk to because he’s fiercely intelligent and quirky. Besides, it’s driving me batshit that I can’t for the life of me remember that cute little nickname they use for his sister. I like the way he says it. Anyway, I hope the number is valid, though I guess that if it’s not, I could always call his parents and get a current one. They still live in the same house where I felt uncomfortable because they were quite wealthy, but so nice to me. 🙂

Edit: I just went to the 10-10-987 homepage and their rates went up to 53c connect and 4c/min. I didn’t notice, and P apparently didn’t, either. Hm. Cable phone is even a better deal now, I guess.