Welcome back Sharon.
Brad
At 12:47 PM 3/10/2007, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I had a tough time getting my desktop computer fixed, and, even when I
>finally hooked it up again Monday night, I still couldn't go online! then
>something funny happened Tuesday afternoon. I'd called the computer shop
>to see what we could do about it, but Sherm, the guy who worked so hard
>for me, had to leave, and his wife Maria didn't know if he would be back
>that day. She said that if Wendell, my brother-in-law, couldn't figure it
>out, Sherm might be able to come the next day. Wendell came later
>Tuesday afternoon to see if he could fix it. Sherm had told him that if
>there was a faulty wire in the house, there could be trouble. Suddenly,
>while Wendell was working, we heard a
>noise coming through the speakers that sounded somewhat like a chair
>squeaking loudly on a wood floor! Wendell realized that he might have
>blown up my computer! Since he has a business, he knows how to reach
>Sherm during
>off-hours. So Sherm came over to investigate, and they found that it was
>only a switch on the back of the computer that had slipped! Haha! (I
>think the
>sound came from the computer/mixer/stereo/keyboard combination. I've heard
>a similar noise when I've shut down the computer before turning off the
>others.)
>
>Before he left, Sherm, out of the kindness of his heart, asked if I wanted
>to go online that night. He attached a router to my computer temporarily,
>(though I thought it was a modem), until he could get there the next day
>with a new modem. He got me connected, and I retrieved the many messages
>that I could get. You'd think my problems were over, but they weren't! I
>turned off the computer to go eat. When I started it up again, it seemed
>that I could not go online again! The next day, Wednesday, I tried and
>tried to call Sherm or Maria, to let them know that I was ready
>for Sherm to come over with the new modem, but there was no answer. (If
>they had tried to call me earlier, they couldn't have, because I had the
>phone line attached to the computer but not the phone or answering
>machine.) I was able to reach Maria Thursday afternoon, and Sherm finally
>came over that evening. I found out that the
>reason I couldn't get back online might have been because I didn't
>understand that this was not a modem that uses the phone line, and I was
>trying to get online by my regular dial-up service! Sherm saw to it that
>the new modem was working. then I told him that I was paranoid, so could
>we please shut down the computer, then start it up again and make sure it still
>worked. It did, so now I'm back, and it's running as smoothly as can be
>expected! Praise the Lord! Phil put me back on EChurch digest.
>
>Now I'm done talking about me. Since I didn't want to wade through all my
>e-mail, when I could finally get it, I'd like for any of you to update me
>as to what's been happening, please? I read just today that Donna is
>having a baby! that's great news; praise God for that! And John, did you
>ever find out the title of that hymn, that you sent me some time ago?
>
>If anyone has tried to write me when it couldn't go through, please try
>again now!
>
>Looking forward and upward!
>
>Sharon
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