Saying Goodbye To The Two-Year Contract
Like most everyone else, since getting my first cell phone in early 1990, I’ve signed a service contract. That first one was for a year, but now they’re all mostly two-year contracts. But when our last contract ran out a year ago, we didn’t rush in to get a newer – read: more expensive – phone because we just didn’t want to sign up for another two years. We’re getting more resistant in our… (cough)… maturity. Whenever we’d talk to our provider and ask about new phones over the past year, we’d learn that we’d have to buy a minimum data package which would push our monthly bill up to $130 between us, and that would be with limited minutes and data, plus that ubiquitous two-year contract. We had looked...
Read MoreRandom Observations on Celebrity Equinox
•Have you ever noticed how the slowest people will not only just suddenly stop in the middle of things but then, as if they were not a big enough obstacle, plant both hands on their hips to become an even larger impediment? •I heard the following from a fellow passenger as he exited the elevator on Deck 14 just outside the cafeteria. “Well, once more, off to the trough.” •I wonder why the Tour Desk is closed when the ship is in port. Wouldn’t that be a time when passengers might need assistance and answers to specific tour questions? •On the ship, you can tell when the thrusters engage – the whole vessel quivers. There’s a sex joke in there somewhere. •One evening Ellen and I arrived at...
Read MoreSomething New and Exciting at BarryOnTheRoad.com
After weeks of research and work, we’re rolling out some exciting changes on the site, and we hope you get as excited as we are. So, please take a few moments to check out some of the new features. If you’re tired of bouncing around the internet checking here, there and everywhere for travel deals, you can stop now. With our new affiliation with One Travel, you only need to go to one place for the prices on airfares, rental cars and accomodations you’re looking for. You can simply click over there on the right column where you see Airfare Deals! Or you can click on Hotel Deals! And so on. (Sometimes I will have special coupon codes here in the sidebar, so it’s a good idea to check the sidebar first!) Planning a trip or thinking about a...
Read MoreAT&T U-Verse, Part Deux
For those who have read my first blog post about switching from the cable company to AT&T U-Verse, and even those who haven’t (though you should), here is the next installment beginning a week and a day after installation. We were backing out of the driveway late in the morning of day eight and had to stop because there was an AT&T truck blocking us. The driver walked over and told us that he was there to connect the wire which had been buried two days before, and that he didn’t need to come inside. (We had been operating to this point with a wire lying on the ground from the post at the street to the house.) He then moved his truck out of the way and we left. Within thirty minutes we were back and began putting the groceries away. The...
Read MoreThinking About Switching To AT&T U-Verse? Read This First.
I thought Ellen was talking to a new neighbor at the front door. I was on the third floor and they were on the first, so I couldn’t hear words, just two female voices talking animatedly. When she called up to me to come down, I was right in the middle of some online search – I forget what – and wasn’t particularly excited about taking the time to meet and greet someone new at that moment. When I reluctantly descended the stairs to the entry, I saw them in the living room, perched opposite one another, and I thought the visitor looked waaaay too young to be a new homeowner in the neighborhood. And I was right. She was a door-to-door solicitor for AT&T U-Verse, the telecom giant’s answer to cable tv/highspeed/phone packages. These two...
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