“The RoseBouquet”

It was a good thing that last week I had cleared my evenings through Wednesday, so I could attend the missions conference in the town of Waldheim (also about 40 minutes drive north). That meant I wasn’t working at home in the evenings, but I was still struggling to solve my problem of no ethernet connection at home. I called my ISP twice and the fellows assured me that the modem was fine. It had to be a problem in my software.

I applied all my resourcefulness at problem-solving, including bringing home a different computer from the office, installing a newer operating system, and though the computers would work at the office, they balked when they were hooked up at home.

On Thursday after 5, I went shopping for birthday gifts for Kathy, and also stopped at a store that carries internet modems. I explained my problem there, and they said simply, “bring in your old one and take home a newer one. In fact, you can upgrade to the 2wire modem for no extra charge.”

Ah-ha! That’s the kind I have at the office. So I gladly brought the old Westell in on Friday before I headed out to visit Kathy, and picked up the new kit. But then I spent all of Friday evening struggling to get it set up right. If it looked like it was about to work, then my phone went dead.

Finally I figured out how to use the cell phone that had been loaned to me and dialed up Sasktel again. The man promised to send a techie out on Saturday. You know what? It took that man less than 15 minutes to discover that I had a short in the phone jack on the wall under my desk. No wonder I hadn’t been able to get online! He fixed that, and now I have a fine high speed connection at home, and can even plug in up to four computers at once, if I wish!

Problem-solving takes perseverance, doesn’t it?