Since *someone* absconded to Connecticut with the laptop and I really needed to have a computer at my disposal for school work/perusing a variety of time-wasting websites, I texted one of the brothers with my requirements and budget.  The requirements I gave to my genius brother were as follows:

1.  A desktop.

2.  With no wires or extraneous cords (as I find them to be unsightly.)

Done and done.  I'm finding a great deal of delight in our new (to us) iMac.  Maybe this will inspire me to post something here more than once per quarter.  Maybe not.  The jury's still out on that one.