The Big DumpTruck

I haven't uploaded any more of the 700 or so photos I took last week because, interestingly, the hard drive on my Mac became full. That causes two problems. I can't burn DVDs without having buffer space on the hard drive (a 4.7 gig DVD needs 4.7 gig on the hard drive, etc.) and moving things off the hard drive messes with LightRooms head, because it can't find files it previously imported. Oh, and you need buffer space on the hard drive to edit photos, too.

I picked up a 500gig external drive at Best Buy for $119 yesterday (tax free, on sale) and I'm moving things off the Mac hard drive slowly but surely. Actually, I have no idea how I filled up the hard drive that quickly. I mean, other than something simple like shooting approximately 10gig of photos in a week. Not counting all the photos I took before last week. Hmmm.

So while we wait for me to go through the rest of the photos, I'll take a moment to give quality feedback about last night's showing of Grease on Nickelodeon. I liked that movie a lot when it came out a million years ago. It hardly even bothered me that high school senior Rizzo was played by a 34 year old woman. Hell, Olivia Newton John was 29. John Travolta was 24. But that's not my complaint. My complaint (no, not the fact that "You're the One That I Want" is now stuck in my head) is all the smoking. This movie used smoking to show that the characters were "bad" and "cool" all at the same time. You know Danny's a bad-ass when school starts because he turns around from talking to three middle-aged high school girls and there's a butt hanging off his lower lip. I wanted Junior to watch this movie because I remembered it one way. But his first comment was "Why are they smoking?" Sure, it's set in 1959, and maybe smoking was actually allowed on campus back then, but good Lord, even Sandy pulls on a butt (amateurishly) in the final carnival scene to show that she's no longer a goodie-two-shoes. What the hell? And now that I'm an old lady myself, what the hell is wrong with being a goodie-two-shoes? Why can't we keep the Pollyanna version of Sandy and the lettermen sweater version of Danny at the end?

I still like the movie, and other than that (and the Rizzo pregnancy scare) it is a fun movie with good songs. And it's fun to show the boy what High School Musical was based on. But with someone smoking in literally EVERY scene of this movie, I'm questioning if it belonged on the Nick at Night lineup at 8pm. Call me a prude, but it was a bit much, even for me.

Labels: laptop, movies, Vacation

I'm sitting out on my deck, drinking a Coffee Coolatta, and I can't think of a better way to spend the afternoon. Well, okay, I can think of a couple of better ways, but those cost money and involve being inside a mall. The breeze is what is making this a great afternoon to sit out on the deck. I highly recommend you run out and get the things mentioned in the subject of this post, and then you can write to me to tell me how great it is at your house!

Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, in which case I'm really sorry, I don't mean to make you feel bad.

Labels: happy, laptop, summer, weather, wireless