“Moom, you are the computer expert around here.” Roight. Yaknow, life just refuses to be boring for even five minutes.

<computer_rant>Lemme see. Right now I have 5.3 Gig worth of available hard drive space left on this electronical contraption. This morning, I had about 4.5 Gig. That just could not be. So I began the arduous task of deleting old files. I would’ve kept on going except that I ran into a file that refused to let me delete it. Actually it is not a file, it is a folder. There’s something in the folder that is wreaking all kinds of havoc and I can’t see what it is. All that folder *used* to contain was a few measly photoshop files. Yeah, I know photoshop doesn’t make “measly” files. Anyway, not only can I not delete the damn thing, if I even try to *select* it in the finder, the whole schlmiel locks up on me and the spinning ball gets going and I have to sit here and wait. And wait. And wait. No, the file folder is not locked, so don’t even ask. I have tried everything I can think of. I have *scoured* every piece of documentation I can find. Nothing works. I can’t even get at it with Unix.

Except. I’m not telling the whole truth. I was hoping for an easy answer but I think I know what needs to be done. I have a disk error. I need to fix it. That means I have to find the backup drive, figure out (again) how to back up my computer, and back up my computer. Then I have to find the system disk and re-a-start the computer, booting it up via the system disk (or whatever ya call it, I hafta find *that* too!) so I can run disk repair on the hard drive. And hopefully that will work. Because if it doesn’t, it’s evident that we are operating in a failure mode here and sooner or later, my hard drive will bite the dust and I’ll be stuck up that familiar old crick while I wait for Apple to fix my drive.</computer_rant>

On top of all that, the Internet got all wonky here this afternoon for a while, so I was w-a-i-t-i-n-g for that too. I can’t win. Sigh…

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