The GG is on a call with the Hiawatha Shore-to-Shore North Country Trail Chapter. I don’t participate (much) in these calls but I like to be able to hear them from the kitchen. I am not all that involved in the details but I am interested in what they are doing. Especially the chainsaw guys.

Apparently the GG set up two computers to join this call. So they can all see him in duplicate, which would be the same as looking at identical twins, and he has one. For a moment there was a thought that I might also join from my laptop in the kitchen but naw. I did many covid type years on MS Teams calls and we did NOT show ourselves live.

This MacStack is from the 2000s. I’m sure my original 2003 12 inch screen PowerBook is in this picture but not sure if we still have it. I was the earliest adopter. The Commander bought me one (long story). It arrived a day late because snowstorm. It came with a printer and I fergit what else. The GG was in the back room when it all arrived and I unboxed it all. Eventually he came out to the front room to visit our guinea pig and that’s when he noticed my new laptop.

When I schlepped my laptop about town(s), I was met with differing reactions from people of the male persuasion. Young males would sidle up to me and offer help, which I certainly didn’t need. Older males acted like they had seen an alien. Nope, it’s just a SMART woman with a computer. Women? They didn’t really pay attention to my new computer. They were doing what women do, chores and grock shopping and laundry and schlepping children around. Computer? Whatever.

Within a couple years, this stack of Mac laptops had accumulated. Me, The Comm, daughters, nieces, and sister-in-law. I think. And a ‘hattan to top it all off.

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