information highways, seasonal foods, and high tech

Well it has been so long I forgot how to post a new edition to this epistle. Speaking of the Bible, our study group, EFM, is in the second year and on the New Testament. I loved the language, the religious and historical significance of the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible but the New Testament is so relevant. Discussing the commandments the Essenes are said to have thought that swearing is worse than perjury because " one who is without an appeal to God stands condemned already." Now it could not be any clearer than that.
I have never claimed to understand computers, I just can turn on the TV, but I always thought I could follow directions. Having bought a router so I could work on my laptop in my dining room or wherever I was travelling at the time, I hooked it up two years ago to my desktop. Since then the only thing I have gotten from it is the nice blue night light. I thought it was my ancient laptop and I purchased a new one last week, guaranteed to work with my network. I probably failed to properly load and run a wizard on my desktop two years ago...and you guessed it. I got the same message when I tried to access the internet on my new laptop. No connection to internet recognized. I have called everyone I know, Staples, NetGear, Timewarner, and my brother but to no avail. Finally last night after about 6 hours, I must have frustrated the tech angels so they popped up on the screen a NetGear Wizard. Then after digging out an old portable floppy disc drive to carry directions from one computer to another, clicking on a lot of boxes....cutting the power to the router and modem ( by the way you don't want to watch that show...all the connections are down behind my desk...hands, knees you can't pull out a plug with one hand...the other is bracing my body from falling over onto the stuff stored under the desk...)
anyway I revived the internet on my desktop which had gone out and I can now access internet on the new laptop after clicking on several windows. No don't tell me how to fix it... It works!!!
Thank goodness for Williams and Sonoma's peppermint/chocolate snaps for seeing me through it.
They are like the Christmas Blend at Starbucks, only showing up at this time of year. My ongoing battle with Starbucks to get my drink right continued today. Imploring them not to put too much milk into my triple grande decafe cappacino with one splenda must have made an impression because for a change they got that right but forgot to add the splenda. I was told that it is hard not to pour too much milk into the drink because of the way they have to steam the milk for a cappacino????? I asked them if they could just stop pouring?????? oh well.
I am starting to collect things I hear on tv or radio which we do not need to hear. For instance, I heard two things today on NPR. The first was in a report on the "alleged" shooter at Ft. Hood, the reported was interviewing the defense attorney for the "alleged" shooter and either the attorney or the reporter stated " the man knew he was a suspect." Well if he did not he has more problems than I thought. I mean he was shot multiple times while he was inflicting pain and suffering on 13 people and in custody, how can he help knowing he was a suspect?
The second enlightenment came in coverage of the services for the fallen at Ft. Hood. The commentator was describing the event and discussed the 13 boxes with boots, rifle, helmet and dog tags. He then said, "a final roll call of those who died will be announced, of course they will not answer." I don't think that needs any further comment.
Well enough of this. I will have to save something for the next time.
Congrats to Davis Whitfield for being chosen over many other highly qualified candidates for the position recently vacated by retiring Charlie Adams-Executive Director of North Carolina High School Athletic Association.
Later
Sally