Some days I really wish I had a phone with a built-in digital camera. I found this really slick orange vest like the ones that construction people wear on the side of the road. I’m wearing it and I look so cool. I’d take a picture for you but I can’t.
My phone broke. Adam is going to give me his old phone to “borrow” tomorrow night so I have a working phone. It’s cool that I’ll have a working phone again but I’d really like to use it as an excuse to buy a new phone. Problem is, I’m going to be living up a little north of Hereford in just over three weeks and I don’t know which phones get reception up there or not. If anyone wants to go test cell phone services around my new place let me know. I’ll be glad to give you a shoutout here. 
OMG. Is this the post of your coming-out? Is it anything like this fine piece of clothing? You might as well tell everyone your immediate need to start singing the Y-M-C-A as part of the village people. I wish you could take a picture of it… I’d roast you even more!
Adam – Most of Jason’s posts are coming out posts, but not quite so blatant. Either that, or admitting to his pedophilia.
(Oh, he’s going to kill me for this one…)
The Village People would be an awesome Halloween costume! I’m already going to be Pippi Longstocking, but you guys can do the YMCA all night long!
Just remind me to bring my camera. Jason would look HOT as the construction worker!
Holy crap! I was running around work all day with that thing on. It’s a shame I didn’t think about doing the YMCA. Damn. I lost my chance.
Jasons too tiny to be any kind of good construction worker
If you are going to be living in Freeland or Parkton, your best bet is Verizon. Most cell phones semi-work up there, but I think Verizon is the best overall.
I’m probably going to be getting Verizon, which would probably mean a cut in my minutes (the entire family will be sharing), but it means that I can call any “In” person without using said minutes. SO GET VERIZON!
I don’t really intend to have much time to talk on the phone for the next year or so, but it’s always good to be able to talk to Jason for free. 
I think Verizon’s whole “IN” thing sucks. I was upset when I realized “IN” is only in if you are in on a Verizion network. Lots of times you’ll be on someone elses network and you’ll be out and frustrated knowing you can’t call for free.
While I was up in NY, PA, and Northern Baltimore county this weekend I had suprisingly perfect reception with Nextel. I’m thinking I might have some luck with Nextel up there.
I wish I had perfect reception with Nextel. I can’t get it at work or at my apartment. I don’t care about the work, but the apartment thing kinda sucks. I know that part of it is due to the fact that I abuse my phone, but it was horrible even when the phone was new. I looked at the map of the IN calling areas, and I wonder if you’re only IN if you’re in the IN region AND you’re within x miles of your “center” (which, for my phone is in Annapolis… that’s why it’s long distance from just about everywhere important). I’d have to find that out before we switch. Especially for when I go visiting grad schools next summer. You up for another cross-country road trip? This time, it would include mountain climbing in Colorado, doing the whole artsy scene in San Francisco, braving the rain in Seattle, and doing who knows what in Michigan. (Probably visiting some cousins and laughing at their drunken German antics.)
If you’re not going to be on the same plan, I suppose I could waste a couple of minutes on you… even though whenever we actually talk, it ends up being like an hour and a half. Thank God it’s not that often, otherwise I’d be paying overtime charges through my teeth. (And from the grave, considering that Mom and Dad would kill me.)
I highly doubt I’ll be using Verizon. You’ll just have to waste your minutes on me.
To do Colorado right, I think I’d need a good couple weeks to get sick of it. I’m not much interested in traveling the US right now. Europe is another story…
Being both a Verizion Wireless user, and IN with my fellow Verizon users… I can say that the benefits are better than I expected. My girlfriend and I talk a good amount (200+ minutes) during what used to be my peak-times. Now that we’re IN we can talk all we want to. We both have nation-wide plans (since I like to pretend I travel alot) and the difference between the nation-wide coverage and IN-network coverage areas look signifigant, bit in my experience they are not. In every major city I visit I’m IN and only during my recent travel through the catskill mountains was I in Verizon but not IN.
SO: In summary, the “IN” thing does not suck. It saves me quite a bit, and would save me even more if Jason were to be IN.
Amy: It looks like your IN coverage covers the bulk of Maryland and also Virginia. See here
Crap. It doesn’t cover the panhandle of West Virginia. That’s where my parents’ cabin is, and they don’t have long distance service out there, so they only use the cell phone. Thanks for finding me that map, though. Would the nationwide plan cover the panhandle? And then there’s the whole going-to-grad-school thing in 2 years. There’s always a very high probability that I’m going to go to Maryland, but I can dream about Boulder and Stanford, right? And on the offchance that I do get in, I would want a plan that would cover me there. (Grad students don’t make very much money, so I would probably still be on Mom and Dad’s plan.)
Jason just wants to be OUT instead of IN. I understand. We’re just too cool for him anyway. Right, Adam?
You know it! I’m kinda suprised though… usually he wants to do everything us cool kids do. Maybe he’s beginning a rebellious phase?
I don’t think the nation-wide plan covers that area as IN-network either. Nextel might be the way to go though… you never have to worry about roaming and long distance… its far less complicated.
No one with Nextel can get even halfway decent reception in my apartment, though. That’s the really annoying part. My cell phone has essentially been reduced to a car phone.
Maybe AT&T?
We all knew that Jason was a poser anyway. I think now he’s just showing his uncool colors.
ATT has pretty horrible coverage in most hills or nooks in MD. Adam and I have both used ATT and I think we would both agree Verizon and Nextel are better than ATT. (I can’t really speak for him though…)
I won’t mind continuing with Nextel if I get reception because, like Adam, I pretend I travel a lot. Nextel had great coverage all through Canada and the Northwest US. Nextel also has this sweet new phone.
Wow, I hope that phone looks better open than it does closed. Yuck!
Dammit. Why can’t I find a decent cell phone with decent reception in the required areas?!?!?!