Welcome back Sharon, We missed you!  I am glad your computer problems are 
solved.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Hooley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: I'm back, and please update me!


> 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