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06/12/2003 Archived Entry: "Mark Gwinner"

iT'S NICE TO SEE MARK GWINNER AGAIN

I've seen and talked with Mark Gwinner a lot recently. Like the old days when he put the cable lines in our house. He's the one who keeps our "entertainment" base in the house functioning.

Last night the cable system for the new computer hookup's in Ellsworth crashed. As it wasn't yet 10:00 p.m., I figured it was alright to call Mark and alert him to the situation. Not that it would make any difference to Mark...he's so busy that I wonder when he finds time to sleep. He was on his computer too so he knew it was off.

I wasn't sure if it was just my modem sans a green light or if others were off too. As it turned out, all of Ellsworth "bounced a Q", or something like that. Kanopolis was still fine. It was something that happened at the home base in Tyler TX. It was not an error at Mark's end.

It was fixed in a short while and I was back sending mail again. It really is nice to have some speed at my finger tips so that I don't wait around for things to download. It has saved me enormous amounts of time. In addition, my mail system, Outlook, is working much better now that I've eliminated the virus check for mail. It's a redundancy as I have my virus scan going all the time. I also run a daily live update and my "bad guy" scan I devised hits everything in my system almost constantly. That's about the best I can do to remain virus free.