OR I do have cables I can hook on the hard drive and transfer anything to a large stick drive I want to keep. my goodness shades! how do you do that? I got a new computer and now have to get my stuff off of this old one and onto the new one... do you know how to get things like 'favorites' list and the list of frequent sites used off of one? I hate to lose all of that and have to start over! there's a program called 'PC mover' but it really doesn't get great reviews! also, I'm looking for a tablet (or maybe even a laptop if cheap enough) for a friend who is also disabled. she is 60 and in recent yrs spent several months in a coma and just recently lost part of a lung. she is living with her mom (who is 88) now. she moved home yrs back to care for her dad when he was dying - it was after he died that she collapsed and went into a coma. I want something with big enough screen for failing eyesight (at our age) and good sound for our failing hearing... a keyboard (that clicks) or at least port to take one for typing emails. she'd most likely will only use for emails, skyping with her kids/gkids (and friends - me) and surfing on web. her kids/gkids are in another state. she has little (very little) money and I think it difficult to keep $s on her cell phone to talk much to kids/gkids/me. I don't like to pry too much about it. I have asked some on the phone and told her I'd be much more than happy to send her money to help with phone so we could talk more (and even for her to talk to her kids/gkids). I'm blest that long distance is no charge on my LL. She is concerned that if her mom dies the house will be sold and she'll have no where to live. She doesn't like either sister enough to live with...lol! i sure wouldn't want to live with either of my sisters! and doesn't want to go back to home state because it's too cold there (she's been in a bit warmer area for a number of yrs now). I will invite her to come live here - but not sure she will because it is so much farther away from her kids / gkids. they're just in the northern part of the state to the east of her now. anyway, any recommendations on what tablet to get her? I like the amazon fire hd 10 but it is so expensive with 32 gb. people tell me that with only 16 gb it isn't very useful. I do like that it has Alexa. that would be very handy for her! I'd like alexa myself. maybe i'll get me an echo dot down the road a bit. I'm not sure how good of a speaker the dot is tho. or even how anything connects to it. I got rid of my big 'ol wooden encased speakers when I moved into here. qvc had the tall echo on sale a few weeks back for about 100.00. great price but that's the first I'd heard of such a thing and I watched it just to learn about it.

When I used to drive my kids around, i would listen to their music, and I really enjoyed hearing new artists. Now they drive themselves and I tend to listen to MSNBC which just makes my blood boil and there is nothing to hum afterward. But I do it anyway go figure. We use Spotify. I made a series of playlists by combing through greatests hits of all the decades since I was a teen. Then I made different combinations of them, a playlist for exercise, playlist for rides in the convertible, playlist for entertaining, dance music, favorite love songs, etc. I also have a few opera playlists. My fave background music is Billie Holiday. The problem with all of my music is I am not adding new artists since I don't get new input anymore. I try different Spotify playlists and that does mix it up a bit. I had to laugh at one Playlist on Spotify, titled "Middle Aged White Pop for Dinner Parties." I did actually use it for a Middle Aged Dinner Party (no race requirements) and we all liked it.

Amicus, you named all the classics I recall. And yes, my brothers and I wore out the Andy Williams albums. I took my Michael Bublé to my mom, we listen to it when I have lunch with her. It has no jarring shifts and is easy to sing along to, so she seems to like it. At our little local tree lot the other day, the owner was playing a John Denver Christmas Album. Must have been a later one because his voice sounded so mellow. I really liked it, and now I have to look for it.

"Toronto vet, the world you're describing is completely different from my lifetime of experiences with colleagues, friends and their children, my children and their friends, etc." So........what's your point? The plural of anecdote isn't data. The experiences being exposed in these articles/studies are completely different from my lifetime of experiences too......However, you seem believe your experiences are representative of everyone else, regardless of what others are telling you, whereas I believe my experiences indicate I've been fortunate and privileged, and I've learned that many women have many more challenges than I do in their workplaces. I don't let my experiences negate what studies show other women are experiencing.