Saturday night I stayed up way too late to watch one of my favorite movies of all time: The Right Stuff. You can’t get much better than a great movie based on a great book by one of my favorite authors, starring some of my favorite actors. And let’s thank God for the TCM network and its decision to broadcast good movies without commercial interruption, bleeping, or bad dubbing (e.g. “Forget You!” in place of the F-bomb.) Heck, you can even see boobies on a good night of the week, if you’re lucky. And that’s what I say: More boobies and more F-bombs on cable channels.

Geek-Out. Last night, while Jen sat on the couch and IM’ed her sisters attempting to come to some kind of consensus on bridesmaids’ dresses (which was about as sucessful as recent attempts for peace in the Middle East), I went through iTunes on my laptop and erased about 3/4 of my local music library. My Pismo has been getting slower and slower over the last few months, and while I fully understand that I’m using a four-year-old laptop, I’ve really noticed it slowing down using Photoshop 6 in Classic, which used to run like greased lightning. Anytime I get ahead of the user interface by a second or more, I get extremely frustrated, because often times my thought processes are two or three steps ahead of what I’m currently doing and it’s annoying to have to wait for the computer to complete some stupid task like making a button change color. (This would be the reason I have a copy of PS 7 for OSX and don’t use it.) Today I’ll be cleaning off some more gunk from the drive to free up some swap space and see if things improve. And thanks to Jason for the maintenance suggestion.