“The RoseBouquet”

Two other things this past weekend and this week are breaking my stride. On Friday night I discovered that my home computer could not go online. I called the Sasktel trouble-shooting number, and a nice fellow walked me through the ways to determine if it was their modem (I have high speed lite at home), or the wiring. A spare laptop with Windows XP was able to get online without a problem, so it has to lie in my computer.

Saturday I gave up housekeeping agendas, etc., to try to solve this problem. I went to my office and brought back some spare ethernet cards, but that didn’t solve the problem. I went to OTV to ask advice. Two guys there were stumped, but thought I might need to replace my motherboard since this has an onboard ethernet (it’s a cube on the board). I can’t accept that because the computer works fine - except for going online. I NEED to go online to build and upload webpages!

Sunday I had to set it aside to go to the Waldheim Missions conference where Priscilla and I presented a project for our mission, WTM. We had to go in the afternoon already to set up our display and have faspa with the Committee and the other missionaries. So it was a long day.

I had stopped at the office and picked up a cast off computer that I had repaired and brought it home, hoping I could go online with that one, I tried that when I got home after 10:30 pm. No go.

Monday morning I had to call for a plumber because my sewer was backing up. (That was an expensive lesson in what company I will NEVER call again! A rude man, charging $364 for an hour’s work is expensive education money to learn that!)

Anyway, no need to bore you with all the technical details, but what with dealing with my own computer challenge this week, someone dropping off a laptop yesterday for me to work on this week, and we are still going to Waldheim each evening until Wednesday night - …you could say I’m busier than usual.

I did get a few emails answered yesterday afternoon, but I’m about 4 days behind now! I wanted to give myself a sewing binge this coming weekend, but I may have to spend it in email catchup. Maybe that will help me to resist the temptation to hang-out at Facebook, eh?

Hey, if you had a birthday recently. I probably saw it on my bathroom calendar, but I was helpless to do anything about it. I’m sorry! I hope you had a great day without me.

Oh, and a big thanks to Barbara and Helen who wrote to identify with the problem of being snubbed by friends in week-before-last’s article. Seems that has happened to most of us, eh?