The towers that TF use depend on the phone you use. I have a Samsung Galaxy TF that uses the Verizon towers. My wife has a different phone and it doesn't work where mine does.

We live in the Adirondack Mountains of NY and they have very few towers. The ones that they do have, look like trees. I have a Samsung Verizon network extender that works great. It is a device that plugs into our router and becomes a small Verizon tower. There is no need for a tower anywhere near you. It costs $250 at any Verizon store but they will not sell it to you without a Verizon account. I bought ours for $100 on Craigslist. Just plug it into your router, place the GPS receiver near a window and you have a mini cell tower in your house.

I posted a few days ago about the problem of switching an iPhone from Straighttalk to TracFone - not possible. Since he couldn't use his iPhone, my son got an LG Ultimate 2 from Best Buy. Unfortunately, that was for use with Net10 only. Back it went. I found a TracFone with triple everything on Amazon and ordered that. Since his iPhone is now with Straighttalk, I wondered if he could carry the same phone number to the new LG. I called TF and asked the question and got transferred three times. The final answer was Yes. I should be able to make the change online, but if that doesn't work, they gave me a phone number and PIN. That PIN is good for only two weeks, though. Strange.

For $100, he can get 1200 min, data, and texts for a year, and I think that will be tripled. That works out to a little over $8.00/month, a bit better than $168 for two phones with Verizon.

I've been using my Samsung Galaxy with TracFone since October, and reception has been fine everywhere I've gone. TF uses Verizon towers.

That's a fairly new law in NY, and my son got caught. A cop had a guy pulled over, but my son had no room to move into the left lane, since there was traffic there. It didn't matter, and the cop gave him a ticket, anyway. In court, he pleaded it down to something else and paid about $125.

I saw a cop in MA finish writing a ticket for the car he had pulled over and then chase down a car that didn't move over.

I'm fanatical about obeying traffic laws because the police are so diligent about pulling cars over. Every time I go into town, I see at least one car being given a ticket. We have a four-lane highway with a 45 mph speed limit - lots of tickets issued every day.

EDIT: Something else to watch out for are construction zones. Many states have set up false construction zones manned by police disguised as construction workers. The only purpose for these is to ticket cars that don't slow down to 45, or whatever. Even if there if there is no one in sight and no one working, you can be given a ticket for exceeding the speed limit.

My question is, have any of you done online traffic school for an AZ ticket? and is there anything I should look out for? There are about 100 different contracted safety schools to choose from.

What happened: I got a ticket in AZ 2 weeks ago. I was told by the cop that I could go to traffic school if I hadn't gone in the past year. He also said I could do it on-line. That shoulds good. He also said it would cost about $100 which is cheaper than the $255 fine. Cool. I looked it up and it appears that traffic school will cost about the same as the fine because you still pay all kinds of fees and court costs etc. There are a lot of online schools to choose from.

I know you are all wondering what I got the ticket for and most would assume speeding. Nope. I got it for not changing from the right lane to the left lane when there was a vehicle on the shoulder displaying flashing lights. In this case it was a AZ Highway Patrol with his lights flashing but he was by himself and he was well off the road. I slowed from 75 to 70 and then sped back up to 75 after passing him. I was shocked when he pulled out, got behind me and pulled me over.

There's no doubt that he was looking for unsuspecting California drivers to give tickets like this to. What a scam.

An interesting thought.

Origionally I thought I took photos from every which way. By that I mean with my "people" photos I have some facing forward, backward, left and right, et cetera. Now that I look at most of my albums and photo books, that isn't so.

Sure I capture shots from everywhere but a good 60% of my keeper side shots, seems to be a right side shot. Again, by that I mean the basic body or face appears to be from stage right looking or going towards the left.

Has anyone else ever noticed there photos favoring left or right? Even front or back!