I’m not sure if I’ve always been running at capacity like this, or whether it’s only because I decided to start using an RSS reader and I have like hundreds of blogs I subscribe to, but I started noticing that my hard drive was thrashing like crazy. Peeking at Activity Monitor, I found that almost all but a few megabyte scraps of RAM were filled, and I was having to go to swap continuously. After a few hours of the sound of my read/write heads going clitter-clatter, I decided that I had enough and resolved to brave the Fry’s Electronics in Murphy Canyon.

After plunking down a Benjamin, I tore open my Mac Mini (and I literally mean tear, considering what you have to do to pop this baby open) and popped in a sweet 1 GB module, and now the computer (A G4/1.25 GHz model) is running as smooth as buttah, baby.

Of course, now I am tempted to just sit in front of this thing for hours on end today instead of venturing outside to see the bright world, but I am once again hunkered down in an existential funk. I think I’ll be OK once I get over this horrible sense of desolation.