So I am working out of a Taipei park this week, and to keep in touch with folks, I have a Skype account. This lets me call worldwide from my computer for cheap.

I’m so happy with Skype that I decided to upgrade and get a Skype phone number so people can call me on Skype using their usual cell phones or land lines (usually a computer running Skype is required).

Only one problem – Skype doesn’t offer 202 area code phone numbers!

I had to get a random number and have my office phone forwarded to it. I’m not about to be associated with a non-202 number. How un-DC would that be?

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”