{"id":4452,"date":"2006-02-21T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/fixed-despite-myself.html"},"modified":"2006-02-21T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T08:22:45","slug":"fixed-despite-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/fixed-despite-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"Fixed despite myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weird. I thought I had irrevocably broken my desktop&#8217;s connection to our Wi-Fi in my attempt to fix it. I couldn&#8217;t get it to work for nothin&#8217; yesterday after I reinstalled it. So it sat there, all night. <\/p>\n<p>And this morning, it&#8217;s working. And the original problem &#8211; disconnecting and connecting approximately every 5 seconds, and connecting only at a very low level &#8211; is nowhere in evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Well then. If you need your computer fixed&#8230;.you <em>still<\/em> shouldn&#8217;t call me. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next up&#8230;a film crew from a Big Megachurch Ministry in my living room to shoot an interview for a DVC DVD they&#8217;re doing&#8230;Sandra, have they already been to your place, or are they heading there this afternoon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird. I thought I had irrevocably broken my desktop&#8217;s connection to our Wi-Fi in my attempt to fix it. I couldn&#8217;t get it to work for nothin&#8217; yesterday after I reinstalled it. So it sat there, all night. And this morning, it&#8217;s working. And the original problem &#8211; disconnecting and connecting approximately every 5 seconds,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fixed despite myself - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/fixed-despite-myself.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fixed despite myself - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Weird. 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