Delete and defragment

Everyday Matters challenge: my coffee mug with cream carton and bodum

My living space continues to undergo physical and metaphorical cleanup. March Break is impending. Tomorrow afternoon I will pick up Marian and Brenna after school. Brenna will return to school for four days before Easter weekend, but Marian will be with me from March 11 to 28.

Good fathers must have tidy kitchens. I read it in a manual somewhere.

They also require high-speed internet. With a 13-year-old daughter at boarding school, I can't have dial-up tying up my phone line in the evenings. That's fixed now.

One thing leads to another and I decided to clean my computer. Yesterday I copied all the 2004 photos onto discs and cleared 5 GB of memory space on my 15 GB hard drive. I started a defragmentation when I went to bed.

Six hours later the computer was still clattering and chunking away, but the task was still zero per cent complete. I wrestled with the computer for an hour; did a ScanDisk, then started again. This time it worked.

Next task is to copy thirteen years of my life onto disc, delete and defragment. Clear fundamentalist indoctrination and bad relationships from memory banks. Then everything will run more smoothly, oh yes.

( Notes on the drawing, knitting )