It was 20°F (-7°C) when I got out of bed around 8:00. I finished a blog entry, then had breakfast which I had forgotten all about. I prepped some New Year's gifts (calendars of my images), then left at 11:00 in the Jeep by myself.

I went to the Post Office to mail off the New Year's gifts.

I returned to the RV around 11:40, then left again around 12:10 in the Jeep by myself.

I had some Clif Bars for lunch on my way ...

To J's father's. I gave him a New Year's gift (a calendar of my images), and put some of J's things in storage in his basement. We visited for a few minutes.

I went to a nearby Ace Hardware to buy a can of Super Grip Clear Coating, a spray-on non-slip coating for area rugs.

I stopped at my storage unit to pick up backup hard drives.

I went to the Parker Library to drop off and pick up items for the both of us.

I returned to the RV around 1:45, and J left in the Jeep by herself around 1:50 to take the Jeep to Extreme Auto to get an oil change. I started to combine files on my laptop hard drive with files on an external disk that been on my old tower. When I had both a laptop and a tower, I only had a small subset of my files with me on the laptop because it had a much smaller hard drive than the tower. As I've been working with just a laptop for almost two years now, some of the files that had only resided on the tower before had made their way onto the laptop. Now that the hard drive in my laptop is big enough to hold everything, I wanted to consolidate the files before doing some backups and changing the partitioning scheme on an external drive. I have one 1.5TB drive that's partitioned into a 1TB and two 250GB partitions. One of the 250GB partitions held a backup of my laptop and the second 250GB partition held a backup of my old tower. As soon as I finish making two backups of the 1TB partition and my 500GB laptop hard drive, I want to combine the two 250GB partitions into a 500GB partition so I can backup my new laptop drive onto it. J returned around 2:50 and I was still working on consolidating files. I started to backup the 1TB partition, then looked into third-party (non-Apple) utilities to combine hard drive partitions without formatting the entire drive, and everything I could find was a commercial product with a pretty hefty price. Then I looked at Disk Utility by Apple, and I think it's possible to combine partitions with it — a new feature. :) I started to backup my laptop, and we left around 5:30 in the Jeep.

We went to Carino's Italian restaurant in Parker for Family Night where you can get a Family Platter for the price of the regular entrée. I got a Family Platter of Spicy Romano Chicken (bowtie pasta, cayenne pepper romano cream sauce, artichokes, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and green onions) and a salad and J got a Family Platter lasagna and minestrone soup. Yes, we were going for the leftovers. The Spicy Romano Chicken wasn't as good as the Spicy Shrimp & Chicken we've had before.

We returned to the RV around 6:45, and I backed up the 1TB partition onto a a second drive. I started to work up a blog entry while backing up one of my photo drive sets onto an external drive. I backed up my laptop hard drive onto a second hard drive while we watched Nights In Rodanthe on DVD starring Richard Gere (J thinks he's hot) and Diane Lane (I think she's hot). It was a good movie with a surprising ending.