Post date: Apr 9, 2013 2:58:32 AM
In the early 1960's I lived in Ballard - once an independent city but long a major neighborhood of Seattle - and rented rooms opposite Trinity Methodist Church, where I sang in the choir while attending graduate school at U of W. (When I lived there Ballard had a strong Scandinavian feel, but this has mostly past.)
After returning from Nicaragua I have become involved in St. Luke's Episcopal Church there. More specifically, I'm upgrading computers. I even had to reconfigure their network router after the cable internet installer left and they had cancelled their DSL internet service from the phone company. While the network is much simpler than at Jubilee House, their computers are similarly old. The vicar had obtained two 'new' computers for the parish administrator and bookkeeper. Turns out that the 'new' computer was older than the 'old' computer used by the parish administrator! The bookkeeper, on the other hand, was using an antique, so it was time to shuffle machines.
This involved setting up one of the 'new' computers for occasional users and moving their accounts off of the administrator's computer, as well as getting her a different keyboard. Meanwhile, a computer that was set up for projecting slides (at most weekly in the old days) was newer than the 'new' computers from the diocese. Now all I need is to find the administrator password! The other 'new' computer will be used for projection, mostly because it has a good view of the screen. A laptop would be just as good there, freeing up a computer for, hmm, for what?