I have to thank Michael Froomkin for archiving my original blog entries over on Discourse.net. I have republished them here and back dated them to their original publication date.

I was having a very surreal experience trying to move phone service from Verizon to Comcast. All I wanted to do is (1) keep my same telephone number (this is the much-vaunted “number portability” that we are supposed to be able to enjoy; and (2) have working reliable phone service. It's not that easy. Here are my reports from the front:

Day 4