Two other anecdotes from my trip to Philly:
First, I played Scrabble with my grandmother twice. Both times our total score combined was over 500. I even won the second game, but she did start that game with 5 N's in her tray, which is a significant handicap. And I made pancakes Sunday evening, reenacting a family tradition back in the day when my grandfather would cook pancakes or scrambled eggs or barbecue on Sunday evenings.
Second, at the SEPTA station, catching the train out to grandma's house, I heard the PA crash and reboot. It made the Windows shutting down sound. This was hilarious to me. The PA system in a major transit station is a random computer playing sound files plugged into the speaker system. It reminded me of this.
A minute later, all the various automated announcements of trains arriving and at which platforms were being made normally. But to hear the usually quiet whimper of Windows shutting down made forcefully across an entire cavernous room was quite a thing to behold. At least they're running a fairly recent operating system version.
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