Hello Again!!!

I've finally gotten around to updating at last ...

Daniel is now almost six weeks old, he will be on this Friday, he was released from Yorkhill hospital in Glasgow on the 28th of May. It came as a surprise to everyone, he seemed to suddenly pick up enough to be released quite quickly after being moved out of ICU.

He is due to go back this coming Monday for his first check-up through in Glasgow. But fingers crossed they will be pleased with his progress. He has gained a couple of pounds - almost - and is now back at his birth weight. Not bad seeing as he wasn't about to feed properly for the first couple of weeks of his life, he lost some weight before and after his operation but seems to be picking it up again now.

Sunday past was Father's Day, and the very next day, i.e. yesterday, was my dad's birthday. We are going to let him choose his present tomorrow at the large B & Q shop we have here. He is after a new hedge trimmer as he managed to cut through the one we gave him a couple of years ago, this one we have our eye on is a rechargeable cordless unit so that won't happen again with this one.

Also tomorrow I am supposed to receive my new external hard drive, it's a 500 GB unit, which I badly need as my old laptop only has 40GB total which is split between two separate internal drives. I have long since had problems with lack of space and a slow moving computer. Originally I regularly moved files onto DVD/CD disk via the burner my laptop has but as the burner is now broken. It has been so for over a year and as you can imagine as I can't transfer files off my hard drive I am fast running out of space. I am lucky if I have 1GB to 1.5 GB on my main drive and the same of the second internal hard drive at any given time. So you can imagine how it can slow down my whole system when windows updates. Last updates have a total of almost 100MB added to my windows folder alone, it can really eat up your memory.

I checked and found that I could either buy an new external burner to start burning files, esp. video files and photo files off my digital camera, or I could purchase an external hard drive and add new memory onto my laptop that way.

When I found that the cost could be around the same for either option, I opted for an external hard drive as you can install programs, and games, directly onto an external hard drive which would be handy as my C drive is mostly all programs, I have deleted (or moved) all other saved files to drive D (the second half of my original hard drive) so I can't move much more to give me room on my main drive.

I hope that by moving non essential (or rarely used) programs and files over to the external drive for use when I wish, that I can cleanse my hard drive and speed up my entire system.

I really would love a new desktop, but that will take some saving, I am hoping that the new drive will ease my problems and extent the life of my current laptop a bit to allow me breathing room and so I won't have to rush buying a new desktop and instead save and wait the just the right bargain for both my purse and my computing needs.

As my car insurance is due to be renewed in November/December it means I don't have to find a way to finance a new computer as well as renewing my more important insurance policy. My car's essential, and no matter how I love and depend on my computer it isn't.

Also I figure a new external hard drive is much cheaper than having to swing a new computer at the moment. So keep your fingers crossed for me.

I have quite a few pc games installed on my computer, eating up a lot of room on an already starving hard drive, so I am hoping I can move them onto my new hard drive without them being compromised too much. Most are solitaire/match 3 like games so they shouldn't suffer too much from being moved onto another drive from my main program files.

For about £73 I have purchased a 500GB external drive, which is much cheaper than the £500+ price tag on the desktops which meet my specs., so I hope this measure will keep me happy until next year. By which time I will hopefully be in a position to look into purchasing that new desktop. Also the drive will be usable with any system I use to I won't loose financial when I do upgrade computers themselves.

Also I can start downloading the episodes of my favourite tv shows again, something I haven't been in a position to do since my burner expired. Also my PSP and pixelling can pick up as I find that my virtual memory makes working on graphics harder as the space just isn't their at the moment. Also I have several gigabytes of content from my memberships which I can't back up or move. Let alone actually use.

Anyhow, off I go to dream about all that extra HD space I'll soon have at my disposal.