My laptop sucks.

Ok, while I was waiting on stuff to finish last night, I decided to work on the cupcake blog I've been threatening everyone with.

So I get it all typed up, and just needed to put the pictures in. (I had finally transferred the pictures from my camera to my laptop). But after trying 4 separate times blogger was not able to upload my photos. I'm pretty sure the reason is my laptop.

See, there is something amok with my laptop. This is terribly shocking considering that this laptop is: 5 years old, has had 3 hard drive crashes, has had the hard drive wiped clean another 2 times, has had a battery replaced, has had a fan replaced and really, wasn't that great of a laptop when it was new.

Sometime last week I got this little warning that my memory was almost full. It's not a huge hard drive and I know it will be on the fuller side...but I checked and I had less than 200MB of free disk space. Which makes your computer angry and really slow.

So I did a little housecleaning and deleted unnecessary files and uninstalled some programs I NEVER use plus moved some files that I want but never use onto my external hard drive (which is a whopping 250GB). I wound up clearing up about 7GB of space. That should be fine.

Except....

That free space I cleared up was decreasing, and it wasn't because I am adding stuff to my hard drive. I am down to a little under 3 GB of free space. I'm not sure exactly why it is doing that, but I have a sneaking suspicion what it is....it deals with my computer not being able to download Microsoft patches. So I think my computer kept trying to download the patches (several times a day) and it was somehow making some file(s) every time it tried. That's the only thing I could think of that was causing the slowly decreasing free space.

So I took it down to by BFF (best fine friends) down in the academic computer department. I told them the problem...they fixed the downloading issue. And suggested I move some of my iTunes files onto my external hard drive. Pffft. I told him he should just put one of those 80GB hard drives in my laptop instead.

I have tried again to upload the images onto blogger, but blogger is not complying. I made the picture files smaller in size. Blogger still is like "whatevs". And the whole point of the Nicole vs. Cupcake posts was to show you the pictures! Because really? How dull is "I made some cupcakes...they were good!" So dull. But..."I made some cupcakes...they were good...AND...here is a picture of them" is fantastic!

Before when I was playing with some blogger features I was able to successfully upload a picture of my dog. So I know it works. Perhaps blogger is just having some issues with stuff last night/today.

But never fear, I will try to upload the pictures again. Eventually they'll have to load...right?