Talking to Phil in Germany this morning--perfunctory greetings--

I just figured out how, with the help of international directory assistance, to dial him directly at  his home in NordRhein-Westphalia, and, while I was learning to do this (by consultation, como dicevo, with international long-distance tech support), I discovered that (as part of the "Bundle" for which I have been paying a company (corporate entity) called Time-Warner Oceanic to provide me with telephone and internet connexion service) I have, already, unlimited (talk as long as I want) phone connexion service, with no charge or fee whatsoever, to Germany and several other (yet to be specified) foreign countries.  Which is just a little bit like winning a lottery I didn't even buy the ticket for.  ha!

Well, actually, it seems that my new phone/internet server (since I parted from HawaiianTel.com last year), which was Time-Warner Oceanic, has up and merged with another corporate entity heretofore called Charter Services, and they now and forever more together are Charter Spectrum. And, when I called (tech support) to make sure that my download speed was still 50 mbs., I discovered that it was now, i' fact, 100 mbs--doubled.  I had noticed lately that those Mormonboyz "training films" seem to be downloading in just seconds--and there's why.