Sharon!
I'm so glad you got on line once again! I gave up dial-up back in
November, I think it was. I now have DSL.
Not much going on with me, and Mari is sitting over here with me
reading E-Church messages. She has a new E-Mail address now, and it's:
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Mine has also changed, and it is:
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So, dear sweet Sharon, write to one or both of us when you can.
LOVE IN CHRIST,
Reeva Parry.
On Saturday 3/10/2007 12:47 PM, Sharon Hooley said:
>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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