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Dec. 5
I learned last night that my bass playing friend and longtime major musical collaborator has been diagnosed with serious cancer. I feel terrible for him, and bad for myself as well. We were just starting to get together to record with a third friend, happy dixieland style of old-time music...

Dec. 8
Our annual small lighted parade was tonight:

The high school choir was bigger and better than ever

Here's some hijinks with the Grinch

These are the steps to do so:

Open up the Control Panel, then search for "Mouse" in the upper right search bar. Click on the first result to open up a "Mouse Properties" box.
Navigate to the rightmost "Hardware" tab to find installed touchpad devices. Assuming device drivers for a mouse are installed, click on the device which is not your mouse. For my system, it was named, "Asus Support Device."
Once you have selected it, click on the "Properties" button near the bottom right to open up the device's properties.
A new box will appear; go to the second tab named "Driver" on it. Continue by clicking on the "Uninstall" button on the bottom. A new dialogue box will appear. Ensure that you will not "delete driver software," and click "OK."
It will then ask you to restart your computer. Do so. After the restart, it should tell you that it is installing the new device driving for "ASUS Touchpad." In my situation, it required me to restart my computer again.
After the second restart, your touchpad driver should be completely up to date, and Fn+F9 will disable the touchpad, as it should.

I didn't notice there were horses behind me in the parade till we went around the block the second time ( a feature of small parades) and noticed the road apples...