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
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