I need space!

I’ve owned my laptop for about four and a half months now and I’ve made the mistake of not up keeping it the way I did my desktop. I turned it on today and experienced a lag that I’ve never had before. So, for the last few hours, I’ve cleaned everything out and ran a defrag. It’s worked but not sure how long it’s going to last. Because of this lag, I wasn’t able to start on ANY work yet, but I will when I’m done posting.

My real problem is the fact that I’m slowly running out of disk space. The money isn’t coming in fast enough to reach my goal of buying a desktop but I do still have a spare 120gb hard drive so I’m going to need to swallow hard and dip into savings to get my external hard drive enclosure. It isn’t going to cost me much money at all, I just wanted to leave the money where it is until I can just get the desktop. I figure if I can move everything to the external drive, I’ll be able to regain about 30gb’s of space back on my laptop which will even things out.

I’ve decided to just use my laptop for the programs and then as far as files go, put everything onto the external drive (minus my daily based files of course). I figure it’ll work to my advantage and the $30 will be worth it in the end.

Dad caught me looking at laptop skins this past week and offered to buy one for me as a ‘graduation gift’ because my diploma will be coming soon. I don’t think I’m going to take him up on it though. The offer was really nice, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t wish for him to waste money on something like skinning a $1500 machine, you know? The skins are only like $20 but he’s been pulling double shifts for the last two weeks, I’m not going to sit here and accept something that’s a useless purchase. There are quite a few other purchases to be made that will honor everyone in the house and unlike my sister, I’m not going to be selfish about money that isn’t even mine. She’ll gladly accept whatever he throws her way, she usually demands it first anyway.

If I do ever get a skin, I’ll obviously be purchasing it myself. Right now I’m basically set on the one I’m going to buy though, this one is ‘retro’ and I’m downright digging the Lime green. For some reason I like the bright colored skins so I’m going to go with it. My second choice would be this one in the pink. Now, I normally don’t like pink but considering the green shade that’s being used I figure it’d be better to look at something else. I refuse to own a red laptop and there’s no point in black considering 90% of the laptop is black to begin with.

It’s about 3PM and I’ve been up since 12:30, I’m not sure why my cell phone went off at 12:30 but oh well. It’s been a nice quiet labor day. I plan on BBQ’ing later tonight but not sure if that’s actually going to happen. I have everything in the house, I just don’t really have the drive for it. I’m not in the mood to scrape down the grill, hope the charcoal that’s still in the bag from last year is still good and then have my pyro tendencies to kick in and wind up burning something down.

I think I’m going to turn on USA and continue with my Law & Order : SVU marathon until about 7 when the That 70’s Show marathon kicks in on FX. Yep, I’m easy to please. On a big bright note, Nip/Tuck starts on Tuesday night and I absolutely can not wait for it. I’ve already let it known that I won’t be around from 10pm-11pm on Tuesday nights until further notice. I’m too big of a fan to just not drop everything and watch. It’s really the only series I look forward to considering there isn’t anything of interest on television anymore, for me at least.