On Thursday, October 15th the internet in my apartment stopped working.  So what, I can’t spend hours at night perusing equal parts New York Times and Glamour.com.  I’ll deal.  On Friday, October 16th the Boston Globe story appeared and the AOL News article went up.  By Saturday, October 17th there were over 900 emails in the A Wish for Ashley inbox.  Hundreds of emails, no internet connection.  So goes my life.  

Excuses, excuses, but fact is my daily blogging has been interrupted because there are only so many Borders, Au Bon Pains and Starbucks’ I can squat at late a night for their hot spot connections before people get suspicious.  I’ve made the rounds.  I’m starting to feel dirty.  So I am very pleased and extremely proud to share that as of 7:14pm this evening I HAVE FIXED MY INTERNET CONNECTION with my own two hands.  I unplugged, I plugged.  I uninstalled, I reinstalled. I turned the lights off, turned around three times, clapped my hands and voila… DSL.   I’m practically Steve Jobs.  

Now that I’m back and better than ever! Ummm or not… ha! here’s your search update:  We’ve gone through about a third of the leads that people have sent on.  No match yet, but ruling people out does get us closer.  This weekend I’ll move on to calling some of the Ashleys we couldn’t definitively rule out.  I love being a telemarketer as much as I love getting shots. One less person in that chaotic H1N1 vaccination line!  Our facebook group has grown to over 830 members so we’re going to have another A Wish for Ashley facebook challenge launching soon.  If each group member contacts X number of new Ashleys we’ll have 830 times X… plus X…. to the exponent of X… see, told you I can’t do math… more Ashleys on our side.  
Anyway, I’ll be back on track with insightful/random/useless/unexpected musings much more often now that my poor ol’ Mac has a wireless connection to bond with. Me, my ancient laptop, HG-TV and chocolate for dinner… a recipe for success… or at least for consistently pushing forward on our quest to find Ashley…

With love (and a new appreciation for Comcast internet service),

Audra
 


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