I was beginning to wonder about Book #5 in the Bell Mountain series, The Fugitive Prince. I started writing it late last summer and it isn’t done yet, and as of two weeks ago, I still had no idea how the story would end.
So, as I was walking downtown to pick up our Chinese food for supper, I prayed one more time: “Lord, please show me the climax of this story–I don’t have a clue.” And, boom! By the time I’d taken three more steps, I had the whole thing. God let me see it and hear it: and boy, did it surprise me! And yet when I thought it over for a minute, I realized it was a perfectly logical climax.
Now all I have to do is get there. I expect it’ll take me another month or so.
Meanwhile, last Wednesday this confounded machine went down with a virus, and it took a repairman nine hours to put it right–and then it was all weekend and part of Monday installing updates going back to the first day it was plugged in. Thank God I didn’t lose my manuscript!
A word of warning: when you suddenly get one of those “warnings” that kind of look like they’re from Microsoft, but they’re not, you’re in trouble. Whoever is doing this wants you to fork over $40 to them to “protect” your computer–and if you don’t pay up, they will try to destroy your computer. They came very close to finishing off this one.
The technical name for this is “extortion.” As our civilization descends more and more into Godlessness, expect more of this.
From 2011
Sadly, such security scams have only gotten worse, since this post was made. I used to have a guy call me from overseas telling me my Microsoft Windows computer was in grave danger. The fact that I used an Apple computer didn’t seem to impress him.
Ha Ha Ha. He was really on top of things. Patty
It was ridiculous. The same guy would call my work phone, about once a week, and argue with me. He was technically incorrect about virtually everything he said, and I’d shoot holes in his arguments. Finally, one day, I asked if his grandmother would be proud of what he was doing. It amounted to a 9000 mile sucker punch. He stopped dead in his tracks and didn’t want to hang up. I suggested that maybe he should learn a trade and wished him well. I never heard from him ago.
You found a way to stop him. Patty
Amazingly, I think he may have decided to pursue an honest way of life.
You shocked him into changing Patty
Whatever happened was profound. When I mentioned his grandmother, he just went silent and his mood changed completely. It stopped the calls.