random thoughts – Day 1,693 – (Tuesday) – blocked

Blah, blah. Same old, same old. There was coffee, work, lunch, and more work.

Blocked.

There was also the new weekday, work hours, annoying phone calls. Starting in July, there was a steady stream of calls from unidentified numbers, often in other states located far, far away. Minnesota. Louisiana. Indiana. Florida. Ohio. North Carolina. Oregon. Georgia. Illinois. South Carolina. Michigan. Texas. 

Fortunately, I keep my phone ringer off at work. Perhaps unfortunately, I usually forget to turn it back on and occasionally miss calls I actually want. It works out mostly okay though, because generally I get very few important calls and most of the people I communicate with prefer a nice quiet text message that can be answered when convenient. Works for me.

The calls from the out of state numbers seemed to stop on election day. Or maybe they are on a little rest break. It doesn’t mean I have caught a break, however. 

The out of state calls have been replaced by calls from the (351) area code of northern Massachusetts. Luckily, due to the aforementioned ringer being turned off thing, I am blissfully unaware of them coming in until later. I’ve answered only two of them because I happened to see the call coming in and I was curious. Both times there was nobody on the line. There has never been a voice mail left. I think the object of the game is to have some answer to verify the number is valid. 

Since last week, I’ve blocked seven numbers from the (351) area code. Enough already.