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