Your Cache Ain't Nothin' But Trash

The new laptop has arrived. Brand new. With cars, it's the 'new car smell,' with laptops it's something more subtle, just knowing that there isn't any clutter - yet. Ah, yes, there are my files from the old computer, which is off to a new life. I did take the time to go folder-to-folder searching for data files that needed to be rescued, and found plenty which were safely brought to network drives. These migratory files were added. But the new laptop is pretty clean, contrasted to a machine with several years' worth of serious clutter.

This was at work.

At home, our main Windows machine had hosted a virus that was detectable but apparently beyond the ability of our anitvirus software to remove. After significant persistent effort, a key offending file was identified and zapped, to the relief of all. I took the opportunity to do a major clean-out. With multiple user accounts and heavy internet use, caches of files had sprawled across the hard drive. There was indeed much trash, and much of this was removed, followed by a virus scan and other tidying up.

One of the items on my 'Next Actions' list is to get that cholesterol check that the doctor recommended. This will likely lead to some recommendations about diet, exercise, and possibly medication. The diet part I have been working at half-heartedly, so to speak, and the exercise - well, last night I got a family membership at the Y and this morning at 5:00 I was there, swam 20 minutes, and met early risers on my way back out the parking lot. A little extreme, maybe. The medication part does not sound exciting at all, but Mr. Dr. did indicate that 'their thinking had changed' about how they go after cholesterol. Based on my physical profile, I have been one of those Americans who has overdone the consumer part, and now need to take some corrective action. If you're going to eat like an American, you'd better take medicine like an American.

Today is the Language Society's Annual Meeting (at work), with induction of new officers, including yours truly who will serve as treasurer for a term. It's been awhile since studying French at work but I hope this will get going again. It's such a beautiful sounding language. Some Spanish would be good, too.

Cara is making a trip to an orphanage in Tijuana this spring, along with a group of about 30 other students. She's very excited about this, in some ways it is similar to the trip she made last summer to Lima, Peru where there were lots of kids around - very friendly.

And so, it is another day. More organizing - the 'INBOX' piles have largely migrated downstream into various folders, and there is still plenty 'system' work to do, but I'm looking forward to it. I just need to watch how much time I spend taking the new laptop out for a spin.


[Note added after publication, re-read, and Google search: the 'Cache Ain't Nothin' But Trash' line has indeed been used before, see the June 14, 2005 comments by 'Daddy Pop': http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19419&st=60 ]