I hope you get good news about that eye ... glaucoma would definitely not qualify under that description.

As for the laptop ... I can't afford expensive purchases right now, much though I wish I could. Another point is that my desire to wean myself off Windows completely is running into a few snags ... such as fonts that have trouble with conventional (curved) apostrophes and quotation marks and programs that will only run from a command line and refuse to prompt for a password ... little things like that.

I intend to try and fix those problems ... in my copious spare time (whatever and whenever that is).