We have DSL through Qwest and they give us the option of whether we want a land line. We weren't sure how good our cell phone reception would be and sometimes it's nice to have a backup so we agreed to pay the extra $7/month for a land line. Since I'm working from home, I had been forwarding my desk phone to my cell phone and we hadn't even bothered setting up our home phone yet. But, my cell phone minutes added up quickly so I decided to connect the home phone and start forwarding my desk phone to our home phone. However, one thing I forgot about is that home phones are junk call magnets. And, since we don't have caller ID, whenever the phone rings, I just assume it's from work. Yesterday, though, there was a call from the newspaper and today was a call from the state troopers' union. There are a lot of annoying things about junk calls, but not being able to ignore them is a big annoyance. I would really like to cancel our land line since our cell phones work for everything else, but we don't have enough minutes for all of my work calls and conference calls. So, I guess I'll just have to put up with the junk calls until we can figure out a better solution.