A guy came by yesterday to fix my phone line again. Says there’s gonna be some problems because they’re switching them all to glass. Back when I was a kid I used to call the operator just to ask her what time it was. Now you have to fight your way through an armada of electronic proxies just to get through to anyone. If you’d like to know how my day’s been going, please press one. Some telemarketer just offered me fifty dollars to make my long distance cost five cents a minute. I bet in a year or two long distance is going to be free. But the operator will probably cost even more than she does now.