Un-accompolishments
3/27/06, 10:01 am
36º F., Sunny/warm, SE wind 6mph.
Good morning,
This past week has been busy with un-accomplishments. Spent the first couple of days getting ready for the Council meeting on Tuesday evening and the semi-annual meeting coming up next month. Wednesday morning, Margriet’s computer decided to stop accessing the internet after upgrading her system to XP a couple of days earlier. I have spent most of my time trying to solve that problem with the engineers at HP and Microsoft. So far - un-accomplishment!
The manufacturer website instant messaging really work great. After spending a few hours chatting with HP’s website we concluded that it had nothing to do with the hardware in-place. At first I thought the LAN was at fault, as both computers reported both were connected to each other and to the web, but would not allow sending or receiving emails or websites. The only thing that seemed to work were the tracking and pop-up threats entering, but were not visible on the screen. Only knew they arrived when we ran a scan and they were removed.
Next step (actually a multitude of steps) was to contact Microsoft and chat with their folks. After running a bunch of tests without improvement, I was emailed a bunch of things to do and the tech said he would call back in about an hour. The email was several pages long with a multitude of things to do - it took several hours to complete. Guess the tech gave up on me and turned me over to an engineer, via email, giving more things to test. Some of them were the same I had done before several times. One of the tasks was to download all of the system information of Margriet’s computer, save it, zip-file it, and email it too him to look at. It took me until this morning to figure out a way to do that since her computer was/is unable to access the internet to send. This morning it dawned on me to save it to a floppy, then put the floppy into this machine and send it to him. Da! Did that a couple of hours ago. Hope to hear a response back before the end of the week.
Just for the heck of it, I printed out the system information to see what it looked like - 43 pages of mostly things I don’t understand nor really want too. Don’t think there is too much information left to seek, other than the finger prints on the keypads! I did a similar download on this machine, so have something to use as a bench mark for the next problem. Hope I never need to use it. I am learning much about these machines in the process (so far not any new nasty words, the old one seem to suffice), including that Microsoft has had similar problems with the upgrading from ME to XP in the past. Hopefully they will be able to solve the problem.
The council meeting did go well, in spite of my thinking there would be some discussion on a couple items. We are getting ready for the semi-annual meeting next month. I decided to build a form to hand out to the various teams/committees, collecting similar information from each to add to the annual report. This time I thought it might be interesting for folks to see who is on each team/committee and what are the future plans they have. Usually the reports only contain what each has done and the report is completed in a couple of minutes at the last minute. This should give the folks two weeks to complete the reports and have something in their hands to remind them. Hope it works.
Yesterday there was a Synod meeting for our Synod’s camping ministry in Neenah. I am the delegate for our congregation. We stopped at church between the services so I could hand out the last of the team report forms, then headed for Neenah. On the way, we stopped at Grandma’s Café in Kewaunee for breakfast of pancakes and Margriet had an egg and toast. The main purpose of the meeting was to approve the possible borrowing of $450,000.00 to add and finish storm shelters in two fo the Bible camps. One camp had a storm go through with winds in excess of 65 mph, sustained for about 45 minutes. It took out an huge number of trees, while trapping 150 campers and staff in buildings for several hours without any electrical or water resources. Hopefully this will allow the completion by the end of the year. We did have a good time and of course I ran into old friends from other times and places. Margriet got another view of "church" she has not seen before in the process.
We arrived in Neenah way too early, so spent some time driving around the area seeking out some of my old haunts when I was selling insurance in that area. Found a couple of parks and a lot of construction. Some of the places I stopped at for coffee and to complete necessary paperwork, are no longer there or completely changed purposes. Two buildings that Joy (ex-wife) worked in are completely gone! One has been replaced by an expansion of a hospital and the other by a different, much larger office building. Both buildings were constructed in the mid-80's, so was surprised to see them gone. The office building sat at the edge of one of the canals and blended in with the old buildings in the neighborhood. The replacement has been constructed over the canal, completely blocking all but the water running under the building. There is much new building going on in downtown Neenah, unfortunately the new does not fit in with the architecture of the old at all and is really out of place. Huge, square, shinny, blocks of construction in the middle of many turn of the century architecture. It really is a shame. Many of the buildings which were torn down could have been saved, but that is not the American way.
One of the areas that had been farm fields, now has been planted with shopping malls. Since we were so early, we had to stop at a custard shop for some German Chocolate Fudge custard (very good) and then a walk through a brand new Wal*Mart Superstore. The store is beautiful, but the prices for most things, especially food, were cheaper at our local stores or where we shop in Green Bay. We walked through, shaking our heads and sampling the free food they were handing out. I did pick up a new pair of 99¢ flilp-flops for $1.68 though.
The weather has been beautiful the past week. Below normal temperatures have allowed the water to drain off slowly and not too much mud around this year. That probably will change this week as the temperature is supposed to be above normal with some rain showing up too. Too bad I have been fighting with the computers and not able to enjoy the out doors much. About all I did outside was to bring in the groceries and burn the trash. There is much to do, but the critters don’t seem to help much.
Margriet has a sour-cream apple pie in the oven. One of the farmers from church brought several bushels of Courtland apples to church to give away. She promised me a pie would be build last Wednesday and now is blaming the computer for forgetting to accomplish the task! Of course it is an item for teasing!!! Spareribs and cabbage on the menu for supper tonight. Doesn't sound too bad to me!
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
36º F., Sunny/warm, SE wind 6mph.
Good morning,
This past week has been busy with un-accomplishments. Spent the first couple of days getting ready for the Council meeting on Tuesday evening and the semi-annual meeting coming up next month. Wednesday morning, Margriet’s computer decided to stop accessing the internet after upgrading her system to XP a couple of days earlier. I have spent most of my time trying to solve that problem with the engineers at HP and Microsoft. So far - un-accomplishment!
The manufacturer website instant messaging really work great. After spending a few hours chatting with HP’s website we concluded that it had nothing to do with the hardware in-place. At first I thought the LAN was at fault, as both computers reported both were connected to each other and to the web, but would not allow sending or receiving emails or websites. The only thing that seemed to work were the tracking and pop-up threats entering, but were not visible on the screen. Only knew they arrived when we ran a scan and they were removed.
Next step (actually a multitude of steps) was to contact Microsoft and chat with their folks. After running a bunch of tests without improvement, I was emailed a bunch of things to do and the tech said he would call back in about an hour. The email was several pages long with a multitude of things to do - it took several hours to complete. Guess the tech gave up on me and turned me over to an engineer, via email, giving more things to test. Some of them were the same I had done before several times. One of the tasks was to download all of the system information of Margriet’s computer, save it, zip-file it, and email it too him to look at. It took me until this morning to figure out a way to do that since her computer was/is unable to access the internet to send. This morning it dawned on me to save it to a floppy, then put the floppy into this machine and send it to him. Da! Did that a couple of hours ago. Hope to hear a response back before the end of the week.
Just for the heck of it, I printed out the system information to see what it looked like - 43 pages of mostly things I don’t understand nor really want too. Don’t think there is too much information left to seek, other than the finger prints on the keypads! I did a similar download on this machine, so have something to use as a bench mark for the next problem. Hope I never need to use it. I am learning much about these machines in the process (so far not any new nasty words, the old one seem to suffice), including that Microsoft has had similar problems with the upgrading from ME to XP in the past. Hopefully they will be able to solve the problem.
The council meeting did go well, in spite of my thinking there would be some discussion on a couple items. We are getting ready for the semi-annual meeting next month. I decided to build a form to hand out to the various teams/committees, collecting similar information from each to add to the annual report. This time I thought it might be interesting for folks to see who is on each team/committee and what are the future plans they have. Usually the reports only contain what each has done and the report is completed in a couple of minutes at the last minute. This should give the folks two weeks to complete the reports and have something in their hands to remind them. Hope it works.
Yesterday there was a Synod meeting for our Synod’s camping ministry in Neenah. I am the delegate for our congregation. We stopped at church between the services so I could hand out the last of the team report forms, then headed for Neenah. On the way, we stopped at Grandma’s Café in Kewaunee for breakfast of pancakes and Margriet had an egg and toast. The main purpose of the meeting was to approve the possible borrowing of $450,000.00 to add and finish storm shelters in two fo the Bible camps. One camp had a storm go through with winds in excess of 65 mph, sustained for about 45 minutes. It took out an huge number of trees, while trapping 150 campers and staff in buildings for several hours without any electrical or water resources. Hopefully this will allow the completion by the end of the year. We did have a good time and of course I ran into old friends from other times and places. Margriet got another view of "church" she has not seen before in the process.
We arrived in Neenah way too early, so spent some time driving around the area seeking out some of my old haunts when I was selling insurance in that area. Found a couple of parks and a lot of construction. Some of the places I stopped at for coffee and to complete necessary paperwork, are no longer there or completely changed purposes. Two buildings that Joy (ex-wife) worked in are completely gone! One has been replaced by an expansion of a hospital and the other by a different, much larger office building. Both buildings were constructed in the mid-80's, so was surprised to see them gone. The office building sat at the edge of one of the canals and blended in with the old buildings in the neighborhood. The replacement has been constructed over the canal, completely blocking all but the water running under the building. There is much new building going on in downtown Neenah, unfortunately the new does not fit in with the architecture of the old at all and is really out of place. Huge, square, shinny, blocks of construction in the middle of many turn of the century architecture. It really is a shame. Many of the buildings which were torn down could have been saved, but that is not the American way.
One of the areas that had been farm fields, now has been planted with shopping malls. Since we were so early, we had to stop at a custard shop for some German Chocolate Fudge custard (very good) and then a walk through a brand new Wal*Mart Superstore. The store is beautiful, but the prices for most things, especially food, were cheaper at our local stores or where we shop in Green Bay. We walked through, shaking our heads and sampling the free food they were handing out. I did pick up a new pair of 99¢ flilp-flops for $1.68 though.
The weather has been beautiful the past week. Below normal temperatures have allowed the water to drain off slowly and not too much mud around this year. That probably will change this week as the temperature is supposed to be above normal with some rain showing up too. Too bad I have been fighting with the computers and not able to enjoy the out doors much. About all I did outside was to bring in the groceries and burn the trash. There is much to do, but the critters don’t seem to help much.
Margriet has a sour-cream apple pie in the oven. One of the farmers from church brought several bushels of Courtland apples to church to give away. She promised me a pie would be build last Wednesday and now is blaming the computer for forgetting to accomplish the task! Of course it is an item for teasing!!! Spareribs and cabbage on the menu for supper tonight. Doesn't sound too bad to me!
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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