“The RoseBouquet”

Lynette wrote to say she liked my report on the missions conferences. She recalled the ones we were both at years ago in London, Ontario. That was encouraging.

But now I’d like to be bold enough to ask for feedback on the article series I’ve begun - on friendships that I find in my studies of the Bible. Several people have unsubscribed lately, and though, of course, I am bound by my pledge not to chase after folks and ask for their reason for leaving, I am wondering now if this series of articles is turning people off. - If you have some thoughts, but were too polite to say anything, I invite you to reply and give me your honest thoughts. Gently, of course, right?

Not sure if it matters to you, how I get along with my websites, but this last week I finally got this one, Ruthes-SecretRoses.com completely fixed. All those 404s should be gone now that I was telling you about last week.

I would really like to sign up for some new affiliate programs, I’m thinking more in the line of flowers, especially roses…! However the new project I’m working on needs a boost, so I may just sacrifice my Monday mornings for a while to bring that new idea around to a place where I can start talking about it.

The wonder-geek I was telling you about has been sick with the flu (not sure which one), so he hasn’t come back around yet. But he does intend to come.

Meantime, I can tell you about a different one. There was a computer store just two doors down from the offices here for a long time. We used to dash over to ask Jason for help when we had perplexing computer problems. Well that store moved away to a new location, and I had not bothered to drive out there, so lost touch with Jason.

But on Friday, Joe suddenly came into my office with Jason in tow. Turns out he had left that store and is free-lancing as a computer repair person. It happened that I had Priscilla’s computer open on my table and most of the guts pulled out. She said it had died and I could have it to fix if I wanted. Problem was, I couldn’t figure out how to get the DVD drive out of the way so I could check the RAM and the hard drive. I was under the impression the hard drive might need to be replaced.

But Jason knelt by the table and started taking it apart further, and ran a couple of tests, which determined that it was not the hard drive, but the motherboard gone fooey. That’s the flat piece onto which everything else must be plugged to work. He promised to check around and see if he couldn’t find me a new one for about $50.

Wow! They were over $100 the last time I was checking prices on motherboards.

So now just to wait. Jason did say that he’s just trying to earn enough money to go to the UK, where he wants to join his girlfriend by Christmas. If he does find this motherboard, it will happen between now and his departure date. Otherwise, I can go hunting for a bargain on such a motherboard and try installing it myself.

The Friendship article today may strike you as odd - but as I looked Jacob and Esau I saw a plan for reconciliation between estranged siblings or friends. You may want to think this over in relation to some impossible person in your life.

Again, I’d like to know what you think of this series of articles on Friendships found in the Bible.