By the grace of God, Kolya is back on line!

I'm still breathing slowly and deeply and still repeating the Bab("Gate")'s Remover of Difficulties prayer: "Is there any Remover of difficulties save God?   Say: Praised be God!  He is God!  All are His servants, and all abide by His bidding!"... but it looks like i finally have fixed my computer!... or should i say, with God's help, and perhaps, the help of God's computer savvy techie angels whispering in my ear... i've gotten my computer permanently online again.  My suspicion is that it was the Peer Guardian program which either on it's own or by having a virus attached to it had messed things up.  So... i think i'm going to go ahead and do without P. G. from now on... because that's the main program to no longer be present after having restored my computer to it's settings from about a month ago. 20 min and it's still ok, so it MUST be OK again, Praised be God, Ya Baha'u'l-Abha!  Thank you, thank you thank you Baha'u'llah, thank you God!    Before that i was afraid i might have to go as far as totally deleting everything and re-installing Windows (which is called respawning on Alienware computers) because apparently the school's techies were saying that's all that they could still do about it because of their saying it was probably a virus-- although now i'm almost certain it wasn't a virus (Olaf also assured me) but the Peer Guardian program not having worked properly... I think they just wanted an excuse to not spend a lot of time on it, since they don't get paid extra for helping the foreign teachers... Anyway... with that in mind i decided i'd better get a 2 GB flash drive (which i'd been wanting to get anyway) to back up the most important things before the afternoon, when the Techies might come-- but they never did... which is fine since i ended up fixing it myself (but very possibly with divine assistance!).     So i took my map and figured out which two busses would get me close to the Metro Supermarket (i didn't want to deal with a lot of looking around or haggeling plus the headsets (at least) there turned out to be cheaper than the ones i got at the computer market (by about 11RMB/US$1.50-- which you could buy 2 meals with at the student canteen).  The trip took me about 3 hours.  But it only cost me 4RMB for the whole trip instead of like maybe US$50 or so, if i'd gone by Taxis.   then i transfered my pics, my word docs and some of my music and web cam driver onto the flash drive-- i was wanting to back all that stuff up anyway.  It totally filled up the 2 GB!  And yeah then i fixed the issue (see above).  After that i read more in A Hat Full of Sky, then i actually cooked again!     Possibly with a slightly better result than the other day. Then i finished reading the book-- yay!-- while the left overs cooled off, then i put them away and cleaned up, -- Praise the Lord of All the Worlds!