Back in Port Orchard

We arrived home just around midnight on Nov. 6.

It was a dark and stormy night. And very cold.
And the house was cold. But we made it.

We had wonderful visit with Karen and Richard, in the beautiful condo in Orlando. I was like another vacation. On Nov 5, they drove us to Ft Lauderdale to catch the 6:30 AlaskaAir non-stop flight to Seattle. After 6 ½ hours' flight we landed and took a bus for 1 hour and then a taxi to the house.

Now we have been catching up, on banking, bills, mail, getting groceries, washing, getting out heaters and cold weather clothes, and such. I had to get a new pair of glasses, because I lost mine on the ship coming home. Our cat won't associate with us, but she eats, so we got more food.

I was finally able to upgrade my system on my iPad to iOS 8.1, at a time I could go to the Apple Store and get some pointers on it. Its way of handling photos has changed, and I can't really go with it because it is so tied in with iCloud Drive and all other devices, and our other devices are too old. I'll have to wait for the upgrades. But I am using the editing tools on Photos.

Anyway, I got the Zagg cover replaced, so it feels good again. No more black marks from Sharpie permanent marker. FYI - dry erase marker does not remove permanent marker ink from a Zagg cover, in fact, it scuffs it. 

The typing on the new version is very strange. It offers 3 words to choose from as soon as I type the 1st letter. Sometimes even before the 1st letter. And they are so often correct. I have not tried dictation yet.  My Siri doesn't understand me, dictation probably won't, too.