MY LAPTOP IS BEHAVING BADLY

My stupid laptop is not behaving.  Its slow, glitchy and it goes black for no reason.  It stays black until I am panicking and then comes back on.  NOT HAPPY!!!  I am pretty sure the glitchyness is due to either iphoto or aperature.  Whatever, I am taking it in when I get home and I am buying that new macbook pro with retinal display.  And TONS of space.  I need lots of space.

Yesterday I went to the pool for one last swim.  When I was done I lay on a chair for a few minutes to dry off.  As soon as I did a young, very young, mom and little girl about 20 months came along and took a chair to my right, one chair over.  A few minutes later another well turned out lady about my age took a lounge chair to my left, with one in between.  I was listening as the mom get her little girl ready for the pool.  I kept hearing a clicking noise, intermittent and not regular but very frequent.  It kind of sounded like that metal clicking noise some canes make.  I didn't like to look so I waited.

As time went by they finally went into the pool, the stairs to the shallow end were about five feet from my head.  The clicking noise continued even after they were standing in the pool.  Finally, I was so curious I took a look.  She was SMACKING gum!!!  Seriously!!!  And she was doing it at a hundred miles an hour.  I couldn't believe how loud and fast the bubble smacking was happening.  And it was really really annoying!   After a while they got out and sat down and her smacking and snapping got even louder and faster.  All of a sudden the lady to my left looked over and said in a very authoritative tone "Excuse me, excuse me, EXCUSE ME!!!  Do you mind not smacking your gum?  Its rude and annoying."  Well little miss mom, whom we could see already had an attitude with her kid, turns and incredulously asks,  "Are you talking to me?  Me??  Well I can dam well chew my gum any way I like!!!  What are you?  The gum chewing police?"  Lady on left replies, "What are you? Ten years old?"

At this point my head is going first left, then right, then left...then straight ahead and I try to flatten down and disappear.  But no,  little mom spies me and says, "What do you think?  Do you think she has any right to tell me how to chew my gum?"  I took an obvious cop out and said "I don't think we should be talking like this in front of your little girl."  "Yeah right!" she says and glares at lady on left, who at that point got up and stalked down to the end of the chairs and lay down over there.  And I waited about a heartbeat and got up and skedaddled out of there.  Her smacking was driving me crazy too.  All I wanted was a peaceful last swim.  Oh well.

FROM THE FRONT DOOR

IT KIND OF MATCHES THE TILE IN THE REST OF THE PLACE

WE HAVEN'T PICKED OUT RUG FOR HERE YET

THE WALLS ARE NOT YELLOW, ITS JUST THE LIGHTING

So I took some pics of the floor.  We did get the place cleaned up, me going along behind Bill and redoing everything he did that was below his waist level.  He just can't bend over and so he uses his foot.  A wet rag on the end of a stiff foot that doesn't lift very far doesn't really cut it.  Its now ten am and we leave the condo at 12:30.  Bill is laying in the chair snoring to beat hell.  He spends a lot of his life sleeping now.  I hope to sleep on the plane, but probably won't.  Here are the pics  TTYL