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AUTO-NUMERIC RESTART

The inevitable has occurred.

Today is the day that a new area code has been added to Riverside County. The population explosion is here.

I wonder, though, with all the foreclosures and failures of the development "industry" whether they need the new code or not. Can we roll it back?

I suppose not.

It has already been hashed over and over.

Actually, we would not have been affected by the original proposal but the San Diego people who would have been affected bitched out and so they made us all have an overlay. Can you believe that it rates an item in the Wikipedia?

Now we all have to dial ten digits. Well, no we won't. It is all automatic once I put it into my phone. And did I say "dial"? I haven't "dialed" a number for thirty (?) years. I have punched numbers. The dial went out a long time ago. It is still in existence though. As I was working on this I saw that there is still a dial setup in Death Valley and a few other isolated places.

I made a call this morning and "she" said without any explanation that the number was no good. Period.

I realized. It is 10/24/09. Shit.

So I went through my cell phone and changed all the numbers without a prefix to numbers with a prefix. I also dropped a bunch of numbers that no longer apply. Four moved. Two dead. A couple no longer on my list of callees.

It wasn't too bad.

I realize I am not the first to have this happen. If I were out in LA land, I would have had to do it two or three times.

The new prefix is 442. I don't know anyone who has it but I suppose it will come along.

Change. Growth. Oh, well.

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