Delete and defragment

[vaneramos]

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.

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This is the mug I bought at Fair November when ghostsandrobots visited last fall. I had been looking for something arty and unique. It's pottery made from glazed black clay. Actually the dark umber pencil captures it's colour, which shows through those dark vertical streaks. I drew it in a deliberate hurry this morning, trying to catch up with the Everyday Matters challenges and develop a more spontaneous technique at the same time. The coffee bodum is from IKEA. The cream carton is from Boxed Meat Revolution. I take lots of cream, no sugar.

Yesterday while copying nine months worth of photos to two copies of discs, I knit about six inches of my purple scarf.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

First of all, nice drawing, even if done in a hurry. :-) Nothing beats good coffee in the mornings IMO. :-)

Secondly, funny how you mentioned doing a cleaning/copying of stuff from your HD. I need to do that as well - especially after I moved stuff to my new drive in preparing it to be a new boot drive and the old smaller drive will become a slave drive for now and it'll be wiped clean for audio/video storage during editing etc.

Right now, stuff is just on the new drive in My Documents but nothing is in order, nor consolidated yet.

Anyhow, just getting the physical space tidied up is a good thing, but the virtual spaces, such as the computer HD helps a lot too. :-)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, John.

I can't drink it every day, but this was a coffee morning.

[kwintt.livejournal.com]

a lovely steaming mug. I can just smell the aroma

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Karen!

[poetbear.livejournal.com]

is bodum slang? i never heard it.
Merriam Webester online(admittedly
not the best authority)never heard
of it either. nice drawing, though.
~paul

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It's a European thing. Try Googling it. Essentially it's a carafe in which you mix the coffee grounds with boiling water. After a minute you insert the lid and push down a filter that presses the grounds to the bottom, then you pour out your coffee. Connoisseurs say it gives better flavour than drip coffee. I don't know, but I like it.

Bodum

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

It's actually a French coffee press but the word Bodum is also a brand name of French presses that many places sell.

Having had the opportunity to drink coffee done in the French press and by automatic drip, the french press tends to be stronger than most drip coffee pots produce for the same amount of coffee used.

Hope this helps. :-)

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Does that carton say "cereal cream" on it? I don't think anything so labelled is available in the US. We used to have Light, Medium, and Heavy cream, but now I think we have "whipping" cream and I'm not sure what else (I haven't bought cream in ages).

The idea of cream on cereal seems odd to me -- or it would, except that's what I ate growing up. (My parents always bought heavy cream.) I don't think I would like it that way any more.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

"Cereal cream" is not a common label in Canada either, but the bulk meat store offers products from a local dairy. It's 10% m.f., which is normally labelled "table cream." Whipping is the same as heavy.

EM challenge

[robynls.livejournal.com]

It's great to limit the time that you take on a drawing occasionally as the result turns out looking beautifully spontaneous. Great stuff!

Re: EM challenge

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

To be able to finish a drawing in one sitting also helps me overcome my impatience. Then, once I've regained some confidence, I'll be more willing to work at a more complicated project over several days. I know this from past experience!

Thanks for visiting, Robyn.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

From recent experience ... make 2 copies of everything on disc before deleting. CD's can scratch, flake or warp, or just decide to not work for some reason.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I have done that. In fact one copy goes to Danny's house in case of fire.

[baikautsugi.livejournal.com]

Hopping over here from my LJ. Thanks for commenting. And wow, you're a fellow Canadian!

That's a lovely mug from what I can tell. Looks very rustic. My mug is from IKEA. I've been eyeing their French press things each time I go too.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

"French press": there's the phrase I was looking for but couldn't remember! Mine is a two serving size. Thanks for stopping.