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!!

Was happy to see the Thai place downstairs was hopping last night - the busiest I've ever seen it. I think they're benefiting from the long lines to get seated at the new steakhouse three doors down. Some folks got huffy and loudly canceled their order after a too-long wait; which, I can see their point, but if you're in a full restaurant with only one waitress in evidence, perhaps it should occur to you before you order that your food may take a while. (I almost turned around at the door myself, but saw empty seats at the bar and figured I was in no hurry. Being full of delicious crispy red snapper an hour later told me I made the right call.)

Neat, zuisa! I remember the first time I saw a whale in the wild, in Puerto Rico. There's this moment of WHOANOREALLY?!

Had a bit of a themed dinner tonight: spinach empanada, posole I forgot I had in the freezer and a slice of green chile chees bread from the market. And I just realized, that's all I've eaten all day. Hrm.

Got a new cat-litter rug at IKEA and picked up some hard to find face lotion at Ulta.

Was so nice out today, I have a couple windows cracked.

Criminal minds: I do not like the new blonde. She's not JJ, and never will be.