Yep. I think this is the standard path for parents today. Kids even get to keep some Angry Birds and PBS Kids cartoon from their formative iPad years.

Or Booking??

That seems like a rather arbitrary measure. I could just as easily state “The state of the cereal aisle is the most reliable measure…”

I think it will be more like the Aztec, but less practical.

Or the 1880s.

And now I’m reading a computer’s version of a story describing how a computer wrote a story that should have been discarded.

What a day that was!

To be honest… that doesn’t sound like a heavy lift at all.

That first picture looks like the cover of a 1980s computer magazine, but I just can’t figure out which one.

Kindness isn’t patronizing. Just offer to help because you care for Stevie and your neighbor. No need to make it a debt (or worse, make her “work it off”), which would redefine your relationship as employer/employee. Just friends doing what friends do.