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Yeah, she was really freaked out about the glasses - two pairs, one of which was brand new. (And she doesn't get cheap glasses when she buys them.) She said she felt more vunerable than she already did, not being able to see. (Which I understand - I can't see two feet in front of me without mine. Or rather I can, but everything's fuzzy.) Glasses were one of the very first things she bought.

I save individual files rather than the whole drive.

That makes sense. My sweetie downloads too many photos (for her art, etc) for that to be practical except for moving files from one computer to another (when we had both). Someone else had suggested email my documents to myself but I haven't tried that yet.

How do you get your internet at home? DSL? At first there was only one speed available in our area, then we paid more to get a faster speed. (God how I hated the old dial-up version.) DSL can still be pretty frustrating, though because it's coming through one half of the phone cable so I think service depends partly on how many people are using it in the area at the time? This is the first time we've had cable service and it's been pretty flawless so far. (With DSL I couldn't go to sites like velvetwhip's f.ex. that had a lot of animated gifs - the 'puter would just freeze up. Now? No problem.)

It's interesting that you only recently got internet at home - my sweetie and I were talking last night about how everything nowadays is on the internet, including government services. Going OT here (forgive my ramble) A few years ago when I was still getting unemployment benefits after a lay-off, everything went to computer to get your benefits and check on them. You have to apply for things online and this can take hours. You can't spend hours on internet libraries (as a patron) and you wouldn't want to put your sensitive information on a public computer anyway.

I think that it's really getting so that the people most in need of some of these services (assistance, etc) are being increasingly cut off from it, and I suspect that the rush to make things "cheaper and more efficient" (and lay off public employees) is also producing a cost savings in terms of less people being able to apply for things; whether that's intended or not is another matter. (I actually tend to think not; the people at the top of the socio-economic power structure can't conceive what it's like to not have access. Those without computer access are increasingly left behind and this is true in education as well.

Sorry about that - I can get ranty about certain subjects!