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My laptop is becoming slower and slower. I knew that, but today it took over half an hour to start, so I'm finally at the "I really should do something about this"-point where I might actually do something. Any repair attempts might be complicated by the fact that I'm pretty sure I lost the password for the admin account. Oops. I definitely need to back up my data asap. (Tomorrow. Today I forgot.)

I made egg and dairy free chocolate muffins this weekend for a friend and the texture turned out nicer than with the regular ones. I'll have to experiment a bit. I'm pretty sure nobody will complain.

I read "Breakaway" by Andre Conte today, a book about the Penguins ~2005-2009. It's an interesting read, with a lot of background stuff I hadn't really thought about. That must have sucked, to play for a team that you know has great potential but not being sure if they'll have to relocate. (The chapter about the 2008 trade deadline made me grin. Marian Hossa was a nice throw-in in the Pascal Dupuis trade.)

I'm finally getting into a bit of a rhythm with studying - HabitRPG is pretty useful sometimes - and now I have a busy week, unfortunate timing. Next weekend is choir practice for two and a half days: I love singing in the choir, but that's a bit much. It'll be fine.

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[naye]

Uh-oh...! 30 minutes is defintely not normal by any stretch of the imagination. Is the laptop old, or full, or running an old version of Windows? Are you planning on doing a reinstall or add more memory or something?

Good luck! Slow computers are frustration defined.

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Less than ten minutes today, much better!

All of it, unfortunately. The laptop is over five years old, running Windows Vista, and pretty full. I can do something about that last one, but other than that I don't even know where to start. (Trying to recover that password, probably...)