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Sharon, I think the hymn is Deep River.

earlier, Sharon Hooley, 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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John


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