Due to some wacky glitch at AT&T Wireless, it has been impossible to contact cell numbers in Southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware from a land line for the past 96 hours. Mobile to mobile calls work, and cell customers can dial landlines; the reverse has been erratic or impossible.

Never mind that I live in central New Jersey. In fact, I’m as close to a geographic center as is possible. But my phone has been affected as well.

Surely no one important is trying to call me via the cell, which is at the top of every query and cover sheet ever mailed.

It could worse. All Blackberry service is out in North America.

Yikes.