Another days of tech frustrations.
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Oh my, how I can relate to your problems and I’m not nearly as tech savvy
as you are Father. I’m constantly asking myself how it is that I can accept
and handle really bad news – life and death stuff – but let the modem or
the router act up, and the rest of the family is running for cover. You have
my prayers. In the meantime, look at this as really strenuous exercise for
your patience.
Fr., surely some enterprising “Zed-head” has the tech-savvy to come to your aid. As one who all too often tries to beat a problem into submission on my own, I can sympathize. But at times you just have to bring in an expert.
Fr. Z., I learn something most everytime I visit your site. It occurs to me that your understanding of this demon is greater than you let on. Perhaps, to give we lay people some perspective, what prayer did copiers of manuscripts say to keep this disciple of Satan away, thus denying him of the booty of misspelled words and such, which he was required to return daily to the devil? Then we could say the proper prayer. If not, “Get behind thee, Satan” should suffice.
There should be a patron saint for technology woes. In my line of work I would count on his intercession constantly. Oh well maybe in like 100 years
It will all work out. You always have the great equalizer, Stanley.
There is a patron saint for computing. It’s St Isidore (560-636). He was, to quote scborremeo.org ‘s biography, an “indefatigable compiler of all existing knowledge”. He was a spaniard.
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