Thank goodness for bellytops. That is what my laptop is now. I am like a board of lumber resting against the sofa: my head is on the back rest; my knees are locked and my heels are on the floor at an angle. The laptop is sort of balanced on my  belly. Of course, my little hands have to reach up like claws to type but nothing is perfect.

Yesterday I plugged the address in Attica into the GPS and headed out. It was okay until I turned at Hwy. 24; the GPS lady had wanted me to go farther on I-69. She kept telling me to make a U-turn. I thought she was bluffing and would recalculate the course. No. I looked at the screen on the phone and saw writing so at a stoplight, I looked. It read, “This GPS session has been terminated.”

So I made her wait . . . and then 30 minutes later reentered the address and she agreed to tell me where to go.

This morning I was not going to go to Indianapolis to Crate & Barrel but I decided I had spent the gas money to go this far south, so why not. I put C&B in the GPS. Now, because they have been working on I-465 for years, I figured missing sections of roadway would be taken into account. She told me to take an exit that was not there so I took the next one. Then she told me to make a U-turn and I thought, well, maybe the ramp on the other side is open. No. There was nothing there.

So I turned around again and headed into Speedway and she absolutely refused to do anything but tell me to turn around. I turned her off for a while. On the way out of Keystone Mall (and, by the way, I did not yield to the temptation to visit the Apple Store), I put Fort Wayne in the GPS so I could have guidance finding the right entrance ramp.

Ha. Something didn’t take and she tried to get me to go back to Keystone Mall. I got on I-465 all by myself but the signs were down and it started to rain AGAIN and I missed the turn to I-69 and had to turn around (my own idea) at 56th Street.

We didn’t speak for the rest of the trip. I just leaned her up against the console and let her look out the passenger window.