my mac has been really sluggish lately. i didn’t really know what the issue was until tonight. i found out that i only had 50 mb of space left on my hard drive….
and, what happens when a hard drive gets too full? well - - everytime i would ask it to do something it kept spinning it’s wheels trying to figure out what in the world it would rearrange in order to squeeze in one more task.  simple things like opening a window or running spell check took - - F O R E V E R - if they happened at all. i had no idea i had pushed poor old mac so hard. my ever-dependable, always faithful, mr. resilient was willing… but he just couldn’t get it done.  i was beginning to think it might be some big hairy scary issue… like bad hardware or a corrupted operating system or something awful. come to find out i just wasn’t paying attention. today mac gave up the crux of the problem very simply…
“my scratch disk is full.”
ooooooh! is that all????
so, it took be about 1 minute to dump about 5.5 gb worth of information i had backed up earlier. now he’s back to his perky self. ready, willing AND able to go to work.
i don’t need to spell out the personal parallel here, do i? ya’ll are pretty smart. let’s all just take a minute. can we? not yet? [[sigh]]. ok - but i’m not making any spell check promises until i get that minute. 
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