pro-choice union supporting Libyans.

pro-choice union supporting Libyans.

Choosy unions choose Libya.

In continuing onerous tasks, I have finally folded and put away several loads of laundry that have been piling up. It created a new onerous task (the locating of lost socks) but that will have to wait.

Sadly, the cold pizza ended up being consumed by DH, but at least he left me some cold lasagna. Now updating iTunes, having finally resolved the issue with my external hard drive. Lord, but my computer is slow. I'd like a new one, but... this one is only six years old, and it cost a lot of money! Maybe I should try defragging it first, or something. Not that I know what defragging is, or how to do it, but it's supposed to help, right?

Not that I know what defragging is, or how to do it, but it's supposed to help, right?

Your files become fragmented over time - all the bytes are spread out over your heard drive and have little markers saying "this is where Doc 1 starts, and then they edited it and now a section is over there, and another section is over there."

Over time all those fragmented files slow your computer down as it has to jump around on the hard drive to get all the elements of that file.

When you defrag it, you basically organize all the files together on the hard drive. So it's much less work for your computer.

But six years is also kind of a long time in computer years. You might want to invest in more RAM or memory. Relatively cheap upgrades.

I have often wished I could defrag my brain. I would also like to have Undo.

In Windows, defragmenting hides under Programs/Accessories/System Tools.

Cleaning out temporary files and your browser cache can help too.

I would also like to have Undo.

I always wanted Reveal Codes from WordPerfect. If I could only see the underlying codes on people...

There were just dolphins outside the ship! I'm like a small child in my excitement. I'd never seen a dolphin for real before!

SuziQ- i would mention the noise issue to the parents. They might have no idea how loud their kids are to neighbors.

Absolutely do this. When Dylan was a baby and not sleeping through the night, either DH or I would be rocking him in the glider literally all night. We had no idea it was a noise issue (because neither of us could hear it through the bedroom wall) until our downstairs neighbor asked us to please stop running our washing machine in the middle of the night! (We immediately apologized and got a thick carpet pad to put underneath it.)

Dolphins, how cool!!