Back that thang up

My laptops have a nice tendency to crash when I need them most, causing me to lose important files on my hard drive. So, after burning through three laptops in four years (actually, the first one was stolen), I decided to invest in an external hard drive to back up my stuff.

I've been backing up my thesis documents and my iTunes files there semi-regularly. And this week, I moved all my photos off of my laptop's hard drive and onto the external drive. (I also have them on Flickr, so I consider that a second backup.) But even after all this, I find my laptop's space running out fairly quickly. Moving the photos cleared out 8GB, but I'd like to clean it up a little more. Any tips on how to find files/programs on a PC that could easily be deleted or moved and not be missed?

On another note, i'm trying to import my posts into Tumblr. I was really hoping it would back up all my old posts, but I think it's only doing the ones from when I started the site. This is my first blog post since then, so we'll see what happens.

Back to...gulp...work now! xxx

Because bunnies and chicks are *so* last year.

One of my best egg creations yet: the Spiderman egg. Hope y'all had a fabulous Easter.

Things I've been thinking about lately

• It is really hard to get motivated enough to finish this chapter.
• The whole job searching process is freaking me out. I've started now because I don't want to reach a point where my loans are due and I'm unemployed.
  
• I miss Ugly Betty. It comes back on in May.
• Do you know how hard it is to find appropriate music for someone's 90th birthday slideshow? Everything is either mega-weepy or perfect with the exception of one line. An example of the latter: my grandfather loves Frank Sinatra's "My Way," but it starts with "And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain..." Not a great message to send out there.
• I can't believe the Gosselins got not one, but two dogs. Based on the parents' reactions when they were getting ready to get the dogs, it seems like the producers told them to get dogs as a way to boost ratings. How can a woman who is so obsessed with neatness and order and has eight kids who scream and hit manage two dogs?
• This just in: as I was Googling the link to the J&K+8 website, I came across a link that says that they no longer have the dogs. They claim that one of the kids was allergic, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was because one of the dogs ate some furniture or something.
• I saw a commercial for a police impound auction and it fascinated me. I'd love to end up with a decent car for a low price, but I always wonder what exactly led those cars to be impounded in the first place.
• I want to go out for dim sum, but I have no idea how to order it. I used to go with my Chinese/Hong Kong friends who would do all the ordering in Chinese, so I don't know what anything is called. "Do you have those noodley things with the shrimp in them?"
• If you ever need to make a photo slideshow and you own a Wii, try the "Photo Channel" option. It's so easy.
• People wonder why I pack so much. Well, if you look at the weather reports from when I've been home, we've had 70-degree weather and we've had 39-degree weather. I've worn sandals while I've been home and I've heard people in other parts of the state say they've got snow. That's Connecticut for you.
  
• I really should get back to writing that chapter now.