I have been having trouble with my computer.  I never had these kinds of troubles with my first Apple II computer.  That may have been because there was no such thing as wireless connectivity at that time.  I have added wireless equipment but the connectivity is now in question.  It is curious, since the wonder is how can a machine – this hardware that I am using - discern either the existence of a connection or its absence?  Wired equipment is simple.  You check both ends and if you suspect the cable, you replace it and check both ends.  If you use a cable that worked in another application, it should work in the new one.  You cannot see wireless and, there is the rub.

Carol is the proud owner of a new laptop computer.  She can turn it on and off, get on to the internet and check different things in which she is interested.  She can play solitaire but is disappointed because she cannot find “bridge” among the amenities the machine has to offer. We can correct the latter problem and will, shortly. HER machine acts in a wireless fashion with other machinery and get on the internet.  MY machine tried to do this thing without warning signals coming up on the screen that certain parts could not be found.  If it were a matter of connecting different components with a wire or cable, it would be much simpler.  However, in trying to check the WIRELESS connections, it is necessary to check the cables connecting the wireless devices to power and each other.  Carol has only two wires on her laptop.  I seem to have thousands of them coiled in and out of each other and I psyched myself to attempt the task of uncoiling them from each other and checking to see if everything connected up so my wireless connection could be verified and actually work. I did and it did

Each of us is wired in some personal way that is slightly off from each other.  Our connectivity is sometimes spoiled when we learn that our communication does not compute.  Some of us like to grab a hold on the arm or shoulder of another to make that connection work.  This attempt sometimes fails because it is not a question of a physical contact; it is the wireless communication that passes between eyes or body language that does the trick. Carol has the knack of “reading” people and finding goodness and a great deal of other information in the messages that fly back and forth without words.  I cannot do this easily because I get messages of old that block my understanding of today’s people.  I suspect more readily than Carol who accepts more readily than I do.

One very human thing is to try to un-complicate things. I attempted this by unplugging everything among the snaked wires and components in the back of my desktop computer. Then I re-plugged them in and with a lot of  help from technicians in Bangalore, India – it worked. As it turns out, I can send out THINKING ALLOWED again.