Here is my Google Voice number:
(213) 986-5404
This number I will leave up here on the blog permanently. There are no specific instructions you need so as to call or text me at this Google Voice number, other than: Please DO leave a message if it goes to Voicemail, so that I can return your call. And include whatever contact information, best time to call, etc., necessary for me to get back in touch with you. Ya know, the normal stuff. Also, remember to be patient bc it may take me a bit to realize you've either called/left a Voicemail message or sent a text to that line. Although be assured, I will be checking that number regularly. :)
If you cannot use your own phone to call me for ANY reason, here are two suggestions:
1) Try purchasing a cheap flip-top phone at the grocery store (sometimes they are also called "burner phones"), put some money on it and call me. They have no GPS, no apps, and cannot be traced. They're very good for simply placing a good old fashioned phone call when you can't or don't want anyone to know about it. If the cheap flip-top phone doesn't work or doesn't allow you to place long-distance calls, chuck it and try buying another one, so you can try again until you reach me.
2) You can set up a Google Voice phone number for yourself. They are free. You just need a free Google e-mail account. If you can't set up a free Google e-mail account from your home or business computer for security configuration reasons, you can go to your local library, sign up for a free library card, and reserve usage of a free public computer to set up the free Google e-mail and Google Voice phone number from there. You can do so using entirely fake info (fake name, birthdate, etc.) I've done it many times. It'll have a different IP address than anything connected to you, personally.
Although Google free e-mail and Google Voice phone aren't the most secure platforms, they will suffice for our purposes for now just to get us started and talking, bc first and foremost, I just need to get confirmation of your existences for my own sanity and continued belief of your love and commitment to me. No joke. The lack of this has been taking a real toll on my psychological well-being. Contacting me via the Google Voice number will allow us to buy some time while we set up more appropriate means of communicating and contacting each other.
Jack and Ed, Please DO share my Google number above with Paul M, Keanu, Harrison and Diego. You can share this whole post verbatim, in fact. We are hoping all of you can be moving toward getting in contact with each other in the regular way, if you haven't already, so that when I give info to you, Jack and Ed, it can easily be shared with the others.
OK, as for my other contact info, I have a personal smart phone number that's a separate number. That, along with my e-mails, and my address, replete with specific apartment number and any instructions that may be relevant to contacting me through those means, will be included in a separate post that I will make available intermittently. That data is much more revealing of my personal location and info, etc. so that's why I only post it intermittently and leave it up for a short time. Ed, you might already have this info, as it is the same post, with the same data, that I've made available before. Keep your eyes out for it.
PLEASE COPY AND SAVE THIS POST OR BOOKMARK THIS PAGE OR MARK THE DATE OF THE POST, WHICH IS 1.15.20, SO YOU CAN FIND MY GOOGLE VOICE PHONE NUMBER WITH EASE AND USE IT.