Q: Before you leave for work, enjoy some time with your canine friend, and expel some of their energy by taking a walk together. You will both enjoy the exercise, and your dog will be able to have some time outside before they are cooped up inside the house all day. A 20-minute walk daily is recommended for most breeds of dogs. Working dogs may need two 20-minute walks a day. Find a sturdy aluminum or plastic container and fill it with toys and treats for your dog to discover during the workday. Layer the treats and toys with old hand towels, so that your dog has to dig through to find treasures. To keep them entertained with the bucket from day to day, add new toys that your dog has never seen before every now and then. Technology has not only made our lives easier, it has helped make entertaining our pets easier too. Try iFetch, an automatic ball launcher which will allow your dog to play catch by themselves for hours! There are different sizes that launch full-size tennis balls or smaller balls to accommodate all sizes of dogs and living spaces. If you have tried everything, and your home is still being turned upside-down by your bored dog, consider hiring a dog walker. That way, your dog can get the exercise and stimulation they need without being cooped up all day indoors. Ask for recommendations from friends and other dog owners, and make sure that you find someone who your dog gets along with well.  Before hiring someone to walk your dog, ask the person to go on a test walk with you and your dog. You can see if the person is a good fit for your dog’s personality. Keep in mind that your dog walker will also require access to your house, so make sure to hire someone who you trust in your home. Dog daycare provides socialization, exercise, and plenty of stimulation for your dog. If you can afford to, consider sending your dog to daycare at least once or twice a week. Keep in mind that dog daycare is only a good option if your dog gets along well with other dogs and doesn’t have separation anxiety.
A: Take a long, brisk walk first thing in the morning. Make a busy bucket for your dog. Try a self-fetching toy. Hire a dog walker. Send your dog to daycare.

Q: In a perfect world, your husband would agree to immediately stop looking at porn. However, the situation is likely more nuanced than that. As you go through the process of resolving the situation, check in with you how are doing.  Ask yourself how you are feeling about the progress you've made. Are you feeling good about the possibility of a compromise? How could you make the situation better? Do you want to have another conversation with your husband? Take steps to make yourself feel in control. Remind yourself that you are actively working on finding a solution. Finding a solution could be a lengthy process. You might find yourself feeling more emotional than usual. Remind yourself that that is normal. Allow yourself to feel a range of emotions.  You might go from feeling hopeful to frustrated in the span of one day. That's okay. Don't judge your feelings. Simply acknowledge them and move on. Consider keeping a journal. Writing down how you feel can be very cathartic. It can also help you track patterns in your emotions. When one partner wants to watch porn and the other doesn't, that can be a very tricky situation. Consider talking to an expert. Marriage counseling can be very useful in helping couples work through sensitive issues.  Find the right counselor. Ask your general physician to make a recommendation. Read online reviews. Look for a licensed therapist who specializes in relationship issues. Ask for a consultation. You want to make sure that you like the therapists approach and demeanor. Trying to get your husband to stop looking at porn can be a frustrating situation. Remember that you don't have to go through this alone. You could seek individual counseling.  You can also seek out alternate sources of support. Perhaps you have a spiritual adviser like a priest or minister who could offer you some guidance. Lean on friends and family. It's fine if you don't want to give any details about your marital problems. But you can still say, "I'm going through a rough time, and I could use some extra care and attention."
A: Take a self-assessment. Acknowledge your feelings. Consider therapy. Get some advice.

Q: Some online retailers allow you to keep your credit card information and address on file so that check-out is easy and streamlined. Don’t keep this information on file and make yourself manually enter it in. Getting up and punching in the numbers to your credit card may give you enough time to realize you don’t actually want or need the item.  Opt out of keeping your information on file. Some retailers keep this information on file if you sign up as a member, so use the “guest” option instead. Disable the “Autofill” option in your browser so that your address or other personal information does not automatically pop up. Just like you can put items on hold in a store, use your wish list the same way. Keep the items you like but are not ready to buy on a wish list. Unlike retail stores, online retailers often have more stock, so the fear of the item being gone is less likely. Go back onto your wish list later and clean out the items you no longer want. If something still catches your eye, decide whether it’s a worthwhile buy. If the website allows for one-click buying, disable this feature. Put all of your items into the cart before purchasing them. That way, you will see what the total amount is altogether and decide whether it’s in your budget. You might get to check-out and realize you’re spending much more than you want to, then remove some items from your cart. If a website is making the checkout process faster, beware that this can increase your impulse buys.
A: Don’t keep your credit card information on file. Hold items on a wish list. Disable one-click buying.

Q: You'll generally want to buy an external hard drive that both has enough space for you and comes from a reliable manufacturer such as Western Digital or Seagate.  Make sure that your selected hard drive has a Thunderbolt connector (also known as USB-C) since modern Macs don't support USB 3.0 connectors. When buying an external hard drive, it's often not much more expensive to buy a terabyte (TB) hard drive rather than a 500 gigabyte (GB) one. A one-terabyte hard drive will usually run under $100. Plug the external hard drive's Thunderbolt cable into one of your Mac's USB-C ports. If you bought an external hard drive that has a USB 3.0 connector, you can buy a USB 3.0 to Thunderbolt 4 (or USB-C) adapter. It's in the menu bar at the top of your Mac's screen. A drop-down menu will appear. If you don't see Go here, click the desktop or open the Finder application to prompt it to appear. It's in the Go drop-down menu. The Utilities folder will open. Double-click the Disk Utility app icon, which resembles a hard drive with a stethoscope on it. Click the name of your external hard drive on the left side of the window. The external hard drive's name will usually contain the name of the manufacturer or the model of hard drive. It's a tab near the top of the Disk Utility window. A pop-up window will appear. Click the "Format" drop-down box near the top of the window, then click Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in the resulting drop-down menu. If you plan on using the external hard drive with other non-Mac computers, select ExFAT here instead. It's at the bottom of the window. Doing so confirms your decision and prompts your Mac to begin formatting your hard drive. Once the formatting completes, you'll be able to use the external hard drive like any other storage space.
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Buy an external hard drive. Attach the external hard drive to your computer. Click the Go menu item. Click Utilities. Open Disk Utility. Select your external hard drive. Click Erase. Select a format. Click Erase. Click Erase when prompted.