But for now... will just say - I do have a couple of "things" from over the break (may have mentioned already - new phone, new specs) that I'm very pleased with. Had to get the phone fixed, exchanged it with my mother's old one, the latter wasn't working properly either so it was replaced almost for free with a new one which is very nice (he says in a post he intends to make friends-only hopefully before too many random passersby who actually care.. eh, whatever... however, friends-only posts in at least some peoples' blogs can't be read by their writers, right now- a bit the flaw, and yes, I've begun to report this officially, may need to continue though...)
anyhow, phone is very nice and has a camera. Panic may proceed. (Though I don't think I can at the moment get the photos readily and easily from phone to computer. Maybe. Not positive!)
Eric