Quiet

I might have been more active yesterday if I hadn't been up much too late the night before, listening to Spaniards and Tunisians discussing North African politics after the Indians and Uzbeks had gone home from the holiday get-together. (There was an online computer handy, so from time to time someone would jump up to check Google/Wikipedia/CIA factbook.) As it was, I had a very pleasant downtime sort of day, the most relaxing I've had in quite a while; I did a little gentle computer-wrangling, shifting the Palm's home base over to the Vista machine, and watched a couple of movies (the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, which I like well enough as long as I cut it off before that ghastly last scene, and Shrek III, which was ... fun, but not as good as the first two) and an episode of SG1 (10.17, Talion, which was rather distressingly short on warm fuzziness.)

Today seems like another good day not to go shopping. I might try some writing, later.

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I ended up spending the afternoon and evening cleaning up and defragging the Behemoth laptop, which lately had been taking approximately forever to start. I needed to clear 15% on the 15Gb system partition to let the defrag tool do its thing properly, and that took some doing; I ended up blowing away a bunch of unused software, and then digging around for well-hidden installation and temporary files, to get that far. Once the defragmentation ran, suddenly it was up to 24% free, and it does seem to be running a bit faster now.

I don't know if I deleted a cookie that was doing something that can no longer be reproduced by normal means, or what, but suddenly LJ is sending me to the home page -- where I have no wish to go, pretty much ever -- when I log in, instead of leaving me on whatever site page I logged in from. The stay-at-home machines stay logged in anyway, but the work laptop doesn't, and I shall be mildly annoyed if this behavior persists. (I shall try not to be paranoid about the way the first version of this paragraph got eaten when I hit a wrong key and had to 'restore saved draft'.)