Breaking Through

Aha! My new (refurbished but looks new) laptop arrived, and I've been putting in time setting it up and downloading photos.
Much of it seems to happen automatically--linked with my phone and the tablet I was using. There are still wrinkles to iron out because I'm woefully ignorant about computers, but I endeavor to persevere.
And it's very nice to have a keyboard again.
In other news, our representative, Chuck Edwards, showed up for a rowdy, angry, overflowing Town Hall in Asheville. I emailed and thanked him for having the guts to show up when Speaker Johnson had discouraged his GOP members from holding Town Hall, saying it was outside agitators doing the disruption. 
Outside agitators--the same thing they said about civil rights demonstrators and people protesting the Vietnam war. Just keep lying and maybe it will all go away seems to be their playbook.