Siliceous and Delicious

Slightly delayed, but much more optimistic start to the day. Beau has made some excellent headway in laying out a path ahead for the DSA book, which has me very excited about a project completely outside the realm of academic work, but still about academic work. Unfortunately, my MacBook has run completely out of storage space, to the point where DropBox is now complaining and will no longer sync… This is problematic. Especially as I am working from the new Starbucks in Harvard Square this morning, which is a very conducive atmosphere indeed. I priced out the cheapest bailout I could find (short of replacing the SSD in the laptop with a spinning platter hard drive, which I’m unwilling to do—I think the slowdown would drive me insane), which is to replace the optical drive with another SSD and put the optical drive in an external enclosure. That, unfortunately, comes out at $200, which is a bit of a hefty price after the financial burden of the wedding…