Odd Computer Glitch

Went to use my desktop machine this evening and found it was claiming issues with lack of available memory ... and sure enough, it seemed to think that it only had a couple hundred megabytes left out of a 200 GB hard disk. Well, hmm. Assuming that maybe the memory tie-up was real, I started working through the layers of folders looking for excess usage and found, deep in the library files, one "console log" that claimed to take up about 140 gigs of memory. Couldn't view it in text edit so I just deleted it and -- voila -- my memory is all back available. But it would be interesting to know what sort of inappropriate process ended up with that result. My paranoia always suggests there might be some worm at work, but based on the contents of the other console log files, it looks like it could simply have been some sort of endlessly looping process that kept writing messages to the log. Odd. Very odd. (But I'm feeling inordinately proud of having troubleshot and solved the immediate problem myself.)

In separate news, my painting contractor has finally given the house a detailed once-over to identify what sorts of pre-painting repairs will be necessary and has presented me with an estimate. I'd told myself that I'd be content if the cost was less than twice what we paid to repaint the house last time (back 15+ years ago) and it looks like I've met that goal. Now to talk to my bank about an equity line of credit to pay for the thing (and hope that the current mortgage industry panic doesn't screw me over). Oh, and put together a photoshop template to play with colors. Looks like the repainting will get done this summer as planned. Yay me.