Thursday was my birthday and we happily spent it quietly going about our business and doing little things needed to be done. I’d say the highlight of my birthday was the confirmed consolidation of data and programs, by David, on numerous old hard drives onto a single newer hard drive so the old drives could be chucked for good! When we replace a computer with a newer one, we have a habit of keeping functional hard drives (with their data/programs intact) “just in case” of needing the drive. While the important data on hard drives has always been backed up to the new drives or onto CD/DVD disks, the programs are left in place on the old drives; we had a stack of 5 or 6 such drives dating back to around 2001 that just needed to “go away.” They’re now “history” as the saying goes: no more, gone-zo! It doesn’t lighten the boat since they were in the little storage unit here in San Diego but it is just another thing that had to be tossed so we can get rid of that storage unit. David, by nature, is the consummate pack-rat and keeper of all things that he might need at any point in the future. Therefore, for me, this was a very nice birthday gift.