Who Called Me?

Lately I have been getting a lot of numbers calling my phone and I have no idea who they are. Sometimes I will answer the call and sometimes I will let it pick up by voicemail. That is if they decide to leave one. Other times I simply miss the call. When that happens and there's no voicemail, I do get curious and want to know who called me.

To cure my curiosity, I go online and use a reverse phone book service similar to TraceNumber.com. Since tracenumber is new to me, I decided to give them a try verses my old service. The idea behind tracenumber is that when you type in a number they can give you the name and address of the person that number is listed under.

I don't have any recent mystery calls so just for the fun of it I did a search on my own phone number. While they didn't give me my address or name, they did show where the carrier comes from and that it is a cell phone. But since it is a cell phone, the results I kind of expected. See for yourself:

State: Kansas
County: Montgomery
City: Coffeyville
Line Type: Cell Phone
Phone Carrier: Kansas City Smsa Limited Partnership

Since the above is typical for cell phones, I decided to give them a go again with my aunt's house number and found the same problem.

State: Kansas
County: Montgomery
City: Coffeyville
Line Type: Landline
Phone Carrier: Southwestern Bell

Then I had a friend try his house number. The results?

State: Missouri
County: Jackson
City: Kansas City
Line Type: Landline
Phone Carrier: Southwestern Bell Mo

Also, the phone carrier is wrong. Southwestern Bell is now AT&T. So while all of the above had very minimum results I was wondering how someone would be able to get the address and name of a person if they needed it?

Well, as it turns out, after the results of the phone number lookup are given, you are able to get the name and address for a fee. I guess this might be okay if you really needed the information. For me however, it's not really worth my time. What do you think? Would you be willing to use TraceNumber for a price?

Cell Phones and No Call List

About a year ago I set my husband and I up to where we are suppose to be on the no call list. Now I am not sure why telemarketers think that the No Call List Information they have on us doesn't pertain to them, but I'm honestly getting fed up. Just about every week I have at least one telemarketer calling my phone trying to sell me something.

In the past I have tried telling them I am on the no call list however, they don't seem to care. I understand that telemarketers have a job to do too, but if you're on a no call list, it means DO NOT CALL. To eliminate the problem, I have started letting my voicemail catch my calls if I don't recognize the number. This creates a problem however since some of those calls I've ignored were important people calling me.

So, instead I have started looking up the numbers using Reverse Cell Phone Lookup to see who's calling me. It works great as long as I can check the calls in time.

Does my husband have the same problem with telemarketers that I do? Once in a while, but not nearly as often as I do. Lucky Bastard.

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Don't Call Me at Work, Damn It!

Wow. I really can't believe that it's been nearly a week since I've posted a blog. I guess things have been really busy here lately. My life has had its ups and downs, but whose hasn't? Tonight we rented Bee Movie and Mr. Woodcock. We haven't seen Mr. Woodcock yet, but Bee Movie wasn't bad. It's a fun kids movie with a little bit of adult humor mixed in.

Today, work was a bit slow, but still enjoyable. I really love working where I do and while the money isn't extreme, it's a fun job and I get to work around some great people. I tried to call my kids again, today, but there was no answer. I understand the kids have activities going on, but I'm pretty sure there's more going on than that. The bad thing is, it's only complicating things for my ex, but it's not my fault.

So on another note, I'm having to wonder if giving my cell phone number to a friend was a good idea. They've called once, which was fine and I really don't mind them calling once a week or so, but then I was informed that they were umm thinking of calling work, which is a big no-no and I informed them that I can't have all of my minutes used up because I need them for my kids, and not to call me today. Well, guess what. They called my cell. And even more interesting is the fact that they called my cell when I was on the clock at work. I'm just glad that I had it on silent and didn't answer it. It would be nice if people started listening to me for once.