Landlines

I've got one, I think.  I was pretty sure I had one until last night when I lifted the phone and no dial tone.  So I walked up to the Mittersill Inn to see if their phone still worked, and if so, to call in my number as broken.  Fairpoint, our local phone co had three or four trucks working the phone line up three mile hill to my place.  The trucks were gone yesterday but they had left a couple of those little tents hanging off the phone wires.  I was pretty sure they must have broken something up there.
  The girl on the desk at  the Inn was unsure as to whether their phone worked.  She didn't understand the difference between an outside line and calling a room inside the building.  I  finally knocked on the door of a nearby chalet that was showing lights and begged the use of their phone to call Fairpoint.    The Fairpoint service desk took my name and address and promised a crew would be out tomorrow, anytime between 6 AM and 6 PM.
  And, wonder of wonders, they did show up around 1 PM.  A big Fairpoint truck with a cherry picker pulls up in front of the house, and the phone rings.   It's the guy in the truck checking to see if he had fixed things.  As I had thought, the workers on three mile hill had broken something.  The other interesting item, the work on the hill is putting in a DSL booster to bring DSL up to Mittersill.  Right now all we have is cable modems.
  Anyhow, I'm thinking about getting a cell phone, if only to call Fairpoint when the landline conks out.