If shes not into games, then don't try and make her. Get out, go for a walk, go see a movie, go to the park, go on a roadtrip every now and then, just get out and do stuff outside the house, and on top of the, outside a TV.
Now if she does like video games, you can't ALWAYS make that your primary form of interaction, chances are it won't work too long. You still have to get out and do things outside the house. If you know how much stamina your girlfriends gear has but not where she grew up, heres a giant facepalm to you!
It'll be good practice at least, I did a bunch of practice boards the last few weeks but that's a bit different than actual repair. It's pretty obvious what's going on with those, so it's not very hard to trace the leads, and they aren't designed with faults so
Site is peaking on traffic for the recipes - Sundays are always the big days and we are 200 plus unique visitors an hour right now and it will be like that probably be around 3000 total on the site all day maybe more if Google desires it LOL
Anyway I have a power bench that I don't actually know how to use, but I'm assuming I can take the battery out and power it directly from that to see if any of them turn on.
If you had kids like me that grew up in that era you could just go to your closet and fish out one of the cords from the cord bag. I bet I have everyone of those cord connectors plus some