after the tone?

I was on the phone the other day when the doorbell rang. I had to get off the phone abruptly, leaving my friend hanging. And then I didn't call her right back because I had plans to go to a cafe with someone else who had just showed up at the door. The message I received later on my phone was, "Who was at the door? a murderer?" I explained myself then received,"I was sure it was a murderer. Or like a pizza guy but from porn."

I love that my favorite people can easily tell me hilarious and fabulous things via cell phone. I'm going to miss this, and that got me thinking. I've decided to keep a phone number in the states so people can call and listen to the message and I'll change the message regularly to keep it interesting. They can leave me messages for me too. I often find myself wanting to make a phone call in the evening when I have minutes if I'm bored. Calling my voicemail will be like checking my blog, but audio based.

You call me anytime on my hello happy line: 1-339-368-KOCO

Ten points to you if you got the "hello happy line" reference. For those who want to listen, but not leave a message, I figured it would be a good excuse for me to learn how to put together podcasts too--very short, 45 second podcasts. Then I'd also have an archive of the messages. The sound quality will definitely be better in the podcast than on the message... I'll have to play with that a bit. I'll figure out how to make in easy for people to subscribe and stuff too. You can also reach me through skype. My skype name is misskoco, of course.

I imagine this will get fun and interesting when I'm in Tokyo or traveling.

So here's the first message: