i heart skype

Better yet, make that, “I Want to Heart Skype”–because the jury’s still out.

Skype should be solving a handful of phone issues at once:

• My cell phone doesn’t work at my house. The reception’s so bad that the phone doesn’t even ring half the time. Of course, if I’m anywhere besides home, my cell phone is the best way to reach me.
• When it comes time to put a phone number on anything official like a script or DVD, the land line is a bad choice (because who knows how many eons could pass before someone wants to call), but again the cell phone doesn’t work half the time. And did I mention that it swallows messages for weeks at a time? Great.
• Long distance providers (for the land line)–I can’t even deal.

So with Skype In and Skype Out combined, I can make as many long distance calls as I want, through the Internet, for cheap. And I can set up a local phone number the forwards to both my cell and land line, letting me answer the call with whichever happens to be working at the moment, also for cheap. Awesome, right?

Yes, but the first call I get through the service doesn’t connect. My phones both ring at once–hooray–and I pick up the land line, and Hello? Hello? Hello? I can’t hear a thing.

Wrong number, maybe. We’ll see.