An update

So I was able to stop the disk storage bleeding at least.  After trying everything I found online and doing it to no avail, I just deleted the browsing history back a month.  That, at least, stopped the disk space from just draining out before my eyes and forcing me to reboot 48 times a day.

Nonetheless, it's still left me with barely 5 GBs left on the hard drive.  And that's after I deleted some long unused programs.  Now I'm to about 2 or 3 reboots a day.   Because, of course, as you use it even the meager free space must decrease so my frustrations can increase. 

Not sure where to go with it.  But at least it is semi-usable.  It appears you can add a hard drive, but that seems wonky.  There doesn't appear to be a way to make the hard drive itself (purchased with a hundred GBs seemed more than enough to fly space shuttles with) increase its space.  

But a lot it going on in life and this has already chewed up precious minutes, hours, days.  So I'll leave it for now unless anything crazy happens.  

I will note that a couple of times after rebooting, it did shoot up to almost normal free space.  But then promptly dropped over the next hour or so.  The big difference being it isn't dropping now down to zero space, at least not for a day or two.  

So there you go.  The ongoing saga of Dave' computer. Thanks for the input in the last post BTW.  It was appreciated.