Winter in Wisconsin.
Grey. Check.
Light snow on the ground. Check.
House full of people in various stages of recovery from the flu. Check.
Yep. Wisconsin all right.
TOTD
Computers, definitely.
I discovered it was actually cheaper to order used books online than it was to drive 15 miles and purchase them at a half price book store. Since I read a mountain of books in the average year, this is a huge plus.
I also regularly shop online for stuff in England and Australia that would have been hideously expensive, incredably hard to find items that would have involved huge amounts of phone calls before the advent of online shopping.
And LED flashlights. I love me a good flashlight and the best you used to be able to do was the Mag Light. Mind you I still have my old 3 cell that I hauled along on foot patrol back in the dinosaur days, but it now sports an LED bulb adaptor.
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And GPS. That little ditty totally blows me away whenever I use it. My new Garmin Nuvi is the next best thing to a Tri-Corder, lol!