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- <h1>It's been a long day, but somehow, I think tomorrow will be longer</h1>
- <p>Day 00190: Sunday, 2015 September 13</p>
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- This morning, my mother gave me what she thought was a driver's manual, though I don't know why she thought that was what it was.
- It was clearly titled "The Oregon Guide to Teen Driving".
- I can't even consider reading the thing anyway, due to it being released under the <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike">CC BY-NC-SA</abbr> license, a license that prohibits commercialism, and is therefor nonfree.
- I'm not even sure why it's under any license at all.
- Supposedly, it was published by the Oregon Department of Transportation, a part of the government, and should therefore fall outside of copyright.
- It should be in the public domain, not under any license at all.
- In any case, the actual driver's manual has no such mention of any licensing, and is probably in the public domain as it should be.
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- For part of the day, I worked at my mother's school to help her with her classroom, but we quickly rushed off because she wanted to go find yard sales.
- I found a telephone for only one dollar, but I had lost my money pouch.
- I would later find it at home, but it was too late by then.
- We went to the local second hand shop, where I picked up an answering machine for two dollars, but I'm still missing the main telephone component to this setup.
- I'm not sure what to do, I'm running out of time before Tuesday, when we might have service.
- After that, we went back to the school for more classroom preparations.
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- When we got back home, my mother found an advertisement for cheaper Internet access.
- She asked me to call them up to inquire, and I had to remind her that I do not have an active telephone line.
- She got frustrated, but the truth is, with or without a telephone line, I will do whatever it takes to get out of making a telephone call.
- Telephone conversations simply irk me to no end.
- Also, truth be told, I actually do have a line of service through Cricket at the moment, but only because they do not offer tablet plans and because AT&T refuses to allow a tablet plan to be used with a smartphone.
- I do not want to be reachable by telephone wherever I go, and I have all but completely disabled the telephone functionality of my device.
- I'd finish disabling it, but doing so seems to also disable the data connection.
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- I looked up Frontier, the company my mother found, on the Web.
- Unfortunately, while they do have a Web presence, they do not list their prices online.
- I'm going to have to spend my day tomorrow walking to see them in person just to ask about prices that I should be able to see on their website.
- I've got better things to do than this.
- I am going to go in, and when they ask how I'm doing as most businesses do, I'll tell them that I'm not happy and explain the situation.
- There is no excuse for hiding their prices by omitting them from the website.
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- Yesterday, I ended up with three tsunami evacuation maps, two of which I will stash away until I need them.
- The third, I've marked my house on and will use for navigation.
- My street is not labeled on the map, but both streets one block away have been labeled, so once I checked what streets I am between, it wasn't too hard to find my street.
- The street Frontier is on is labeled, so it won't bee to hard to find my way there.
- Still, I have to navigate my way around an unlabeled lake, and I'm not sure which direction is more efficient.
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