I was putting clean dishes on the middle shelf of an upper cabinet when one large plate rolled forward and fell to the floor. It was a plastic plate and didn’t break! I was mentally processing that, with eyes searching the board for the cause. One peg had failed, tilting everything forward. Amazingly, the board rested on six Corelle plates, upright in a rack. I gently removed all the dishes on the shelf and temporarily stored them in a bottom cabinet. Getting a new peg would have to wait, because I was in the middle of exploring a new laptop.

The old laptop was getting more unreliable by the day. The storage was almost full. It never had enough to space to begin with and was certainly not improving. Knowing the Windows 10 system was on the way out, I opted to spend Christmas gift money on a Windows 11 machine. I’m using it to write this. What a joy it is! The transfer was quite easy, probably because I already had OneDrive on the old one. It took over all my files and many settings. In a few days I’m going to see if it has room for all my permanent files currently on the old desktop. A bonus was setting up a connection with the telephone. I can type text messages that will be sent out by the phone, and I think I can now transfer photos from the phone directly to the computer.