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Oh wow! 50 necklaces, that is some going. Can you waft a bit of your get up and go over to me. Use the wand to waft it over. I wish you good sales. Hugs Shirley

In message , snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com writes

I've been away from the computer for a couple weeks. The connection thing said I was connected but I couldn't get internet access. I spend most of a week, rebooting, restoring programs to a previous date, etc. and then finally called the phone company. They told me that the connection status function didn't mean I was connected, just that I the computer was connected to the modem. But my modem no longer functioned. (If it was too old, I figure they should have notified me instead of having it go out on me. They certainly have me on computer for billing!). So we went into town and picked up the new modem, and followed instructions to start it up. Next day I called and they walked me through it. Then I called and talked to the techie supervisor. Several more days later they sent someone out to check the modem. And they replaced the defective new modem. But the line had something wrong with it. I don't know why it's those of us who are technically challenged who end up with the defective equipment, instead of those who know that they did things right so it must be the hardware. Or why after that we are the ones who have the lines working incorrectly or plugged in incorrectly in some central ethereal place. And then last night my google password wouldn't work and I had to get a new one today.

It's funny you should mention get up and go. I've been sitting on the couch with my beads around me on the couch and two tables, and sweet Pete has been doing most of the housework. I got a new table the other day, some sort of office equipment on wheels. We have no garbage pick up this far out of town, and the dump or "transfer site" has a covered platform for people to bring their re-cycleables. I picked up this little metal table that I can hammer on, with a few shelves marked "legal size" and "letter size" that are perfect for my trays of silver. It's on wheels, so I can pick up the beads that fall under it, and just the right height to bead at or eat soup from when I sit on the couch.

I'm sorry to hear you've been having a hard time. Is it the flu you've got or is your heart acting up? (Though I know flu affects your heart too). Take care, dear.

Tina

Nah, that's not it. We get that too. I leave the trouble shooting to Norman. I trouble shoot computer stuff at work, I don't want to do it at home, and it's his computer that has the cable modem (lucky us) plugged into it and I'm not touching his computer anymore than he will even look inside my backpack (purse. It's a backpack. But he considers it my purse, and in a way so do I) - or my laptop for that matter, for all I know, but then, I don't particularly care, I got nothing to hide.

This s**t happens. It is hardware and it breaks by itself. And then there's a lot of software involved that we have absolutely no control over. I have no idea how I'm connected to google (as soon as it goes outside our house), and I don't particularly care. But I do know that as soon as any piece of equipment breaks somewhere they'll at least have to re-route connections, and if (in our case) the power goes out on Oahu we're disconnected. We may still have power, TV, phone, but our internet connection is most likely shot. This did happen after the last

Some of these things just happen that way, much as I don't like coincidences either.

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