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Had lunch yesterday w/ my sister Connie, and nieces Becky, Carolyn, and Shelby.    They picked a place where I could get ethnic food - the one thing I miss from the Big City.   I had Roti bread and a rice, vegi, and steak dish w/ peanut sauce and chopped peanuts on top.  Delicious.   Did some early Christmas shopping and then went to a truly decadent chocolate shop.  Last night Connie got me hooked on some games that are best played on a tablet w/ a stylus.  So off we went to buy one at Walmart.   Got home and started to set it up.  Seemed like parts were missing so off we went back to Walmart who assured us the stuff we 'thought' was missing was already installed in the laptop at the factory.  (Not a wasted trip since I needed an adaptor anyway.)  Back home we attacked setting up the tablet again and seemed to get into an infinite loop because the laptop was not accepting w/ my pin/userid/password combo.  Gave a call to Connie's Son-In-Law Mike who talked us through the issue.  I had wanted to keep my phone completely separate from my laptop and phone ... but that was not to be so synched them up.  Finally everything was working together and we celebrated w/ ice cream cones.  I must give my sister a lot of credit.  Through the most frustrating parts of the setup she never once looked at me accusingly to say "Didn't you used to work w/ computers for a living?"