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Today I learned how to cut and peel apples(not mac). Though I have not yet “mastered” the skill I have done some peeling and cutting and so forth. It was a little interesting because both my parents cut and peel apples in a different manner, and both were offering advice and demonstrations. Mom gently holds the apple in her hand while strategically placing her thumb for optimum “leverage”. Dad keeps the apple on the table and hacks away. Or perhaps “hack” isn’t exactly the word for it. He does it more like a diamond cutter, carefully selecting where he is going to cut and then slicing there and then choosing the next part and slicing through there. The actual peeling part was rather interesting.

My parents eventually left me with three more apple slices to finish peeling and cutting. On one of them I suddenly became “Artistic” and attempted to carve a face on it. You can see it in the picture.

And of course, the general aftermath.

So what’s my opinion of apple slicing and peeling? Um, I think since Mommy is probably going to read this post I will not state it.

Oh, and if you really want to read some interesting kitchen experiences, read this post.

So out of 55.76 GB on my hard drive I had used up at least 54 GB, probably more. Therefore, so as to have more room, I started deleting some of the files I didn’t really need to have on my computer. I have so far managed to get 14.73 GB of available space on my hard drive. Pretty good is that not?

I found out something with my movies. A still frame takes a whole lot less space to store than a regular film clip. So if it’s one of my doll, lego, or other film that has a clip that is static then I can just create a still frame that is the same length as the clip, extract the audio from the original clip, place the still frame in the proper place and delete the original clip. On one movie I cleared a whole GB doing this. I still have a few more movies to convert using this method.

Unfortunately however this doesn’t make the compressed movies smaller in file size Oh well…

So today, instead of cleaning up my room I’m cleaning up my hardrive! Since my computer is, to some extant, a part of my room I think I can get away with it.