A Total Victory!

As some of you may be aware, I was in a traffic accident where some psycho drove directly across my path right after exiting the highway. The original good news is that no one was hurt, when everyone easily could have been street pizza. The *better* news is that their insurance company called today and told me they are totaling my car! I haven't called them back to get the gritty details yet, but this is the best news I could have hoped for. I'm probably going to get a used Honda CRV or Toyota RAV4 with a combination of the money I get from this and my recent windfall from Freescale.

Adventures in Garbage!

One of the quintessential sayings of my life is that "When it comes right down to it, there's nothing quite like garbage!" This was totally borne out today as a casual inspection of the Trashcan in IPhoto finally told me where the hell all the space on my hard drive had gone! I was always under the impression that IPhoto moved deleted pictures into the system trashcan. It is evidently a Mac-ism that each application has it's own little private toilet for your waste products.

At first I couldn't believe it when it asked me "are you sure you want to delete the following 3481 photos?"

What?!?

I had to actually page through a few screens to make *sure* I wasn't somehow deleting something important. Sure enough, though, they were all, well, TRASH.

Eight point two GIGABYTES, 10% of my entire fucking system hard drive later, the trash is finally empty.

I feel like the scientist who discovered the concept of Dark Matter.

My laptop feels like it just took it's first shit in two years.