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Scott has a cold. We have no idea where he caught it. I think most likely it was while he was shopping because nobody at work is sick.

The timing is more than a little inconvenient since he had to work today and has committed to going up to his parents' place after work to help his father put together a new grill that he hopes to use for the family gathering tomorrow. That gathering starts early. His parents want us there as close to noon as we can manage (we need to get to the library, and it doesn't open until noon and closes at 6:00 which is certain to be before we get back). I have no idea when the grocery shopping is going to happen.

I also don't know what Cordelia and I are going to eat this evening while Scott's out-- We're out of leftovers, and I'm not sure we've got anything to cook, either. We're down to about three slices of bread, and we're pretty much out of lunch meant and almond butter, so sandwiches aren't really an option. I think we have a can of Progresso chicken noodle soup which I could eat (Cordelia won't touch it). We also have a small bit of refried beans; again, I would eat that, and Cordelia wouldn't.

Scott went to bed at 9:00 last night, but I don't think he slept well. His bi-PAP doesn't work nearly as well when he has a cold; in fact, it can make things worse. It's a bit of a catch-22 because, without it, he sleeps very, very poorly, and he really needs sleep in order to recover.

Scott says he'll dig out the disks I need in order to update my OS so that I can update Safari so that Google will work for me again. I've never done a system update. Scott's always been the one to do them for me, but he's so very, very busy and exhausted. Ah, well. I suppose it's time that I learned. I do know enough to make sure everything I care about is backed up first.

I don't think my laptop is capable of running the most recent OS, but I can upgrade an iteration or two. I'm not sure how far behind I am. I will likely hate getting used to a new interface, but as long as the programs I normally use still work, I should be okay.

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Well, good news and bad news-- The good news is that my bone density scan results are in and my bone density is nicely within normal range. Breaking my foot was not due to brittle bones.

The bad news is that my laptop is almost out of storage memory. It gave me a warning message today, and when I checked, I discovered that my available memory was measured in megabytes.

Since then, I've been trying to find things to delete. I got rid of some games that I've finished and am very unlikely to want to replay, and I went through the rest of my applications folder looking for stuff to get rid of. Apparently the chess program I've never used and will never use is an integral part of the OS and can't be deleted. I got rid of about a hundred jpegs and gifs, but those are trivial in terms of memory.

I can think of two areas where I can probably get rid of some things. The first is that I have a twenty six episode anime stored on my hard drive. I do want to keep it, but I should probably burn it to disk. The second, unfortunately, is my music. There are a few things I own on CD that I'm not very interested in listening to. I can probably delete those. There are some things I've marked that I never ever want to listen to them but have kept because I only own them digitally. Then there are four audiobooks that I haven't listened to but want to but am probably never going to set aside time for.

I'm pretty sure my laptop is currently at capacity in terms of the memory I can put into it. It's at least four years old and quite probably older than that. I'll have to talk to Scott when he's home and feeling better. (I take it as a very bad sign that he should have been out of work 45 minutes ago but I haven't heard from him yet.)