I've got a cell phone and the only people who call me on it live 6 miles away.

The land line is attached to my computer and work calls me on it once in a blue moon, but mostly the batteries croak and I charge them. I have a dial-up on that line, and a little Radio Shack thingie that rings through when I have a call. I can pick it up if I want and it hangs up the internet connection after a few seconds if I do.

The trick (during the NH primary) was to see if I could get off the phone with whomever's recording before the dial-up hung up (which would have necessitated a re-boot because (I think) one of the Microsoft updates screwed it up). After a while, I quit answering it because nobody I knew would have called me on it anyway (except work, but there wasn't any work).

I think I posted on a thread about this, but ...imagine how many people would have called you if you were Independent. I am, and there were a bunch more candidates in the race back then. I think they guy whose recording called me the most was Ron Paul. I really despised the name after about the 10th call.

On the other hand, Edwards' people invited me to an event with Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Brown and Peter Coyote, not to mention John Edwards, and real people came to my door to talk about Obama.

So suck it up, cupcake. Eight calls from one party ain't shit. (How was the caucusing?)