Happy Birthday Marcia

I have to admit, I am a bad son-in-law. I am a day late with Birthday wishes for my mother-in-law, Marcia. I meant to have a post up yesterday to wish Marcia a very happy birthday, but this video that I have been working on took up about 18 hours yesterday. And my carefully laid plans to put up a very nice birthday wish for Marcia were quashed. So,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCIA!!!!

I hope that all things come together and make this year one of your best years ever. And I hope you enjoyed your birthday. We’ll see you soon.

Photo-A-Day #656 01/24/07

This is the office at the end of the night. Filming ran late (does it ever run early?) so I was at the office with the nighttime cleaning crew and still had a drive home and about 5 hours of work ahead of me to complete this video project. The video has to be at the most 10 minutes long. I had over 15 minutes in the first cut. Then I paired it down to 10 minutes 16 seconds. That is going to have to do because it is 11:30 and I have to get back up at 5:30 to do a run through and film one more piece for the video.

I would be lost without Adobe Premiere Elements however that does not mean that I had an easy time of this. Each clip had to be individually edited for length, audio and background noise. I didn’t get to the background noise yet. And the Sanyo Xacti C4 I have picks up everything.

Well I need to check on my film to see if it rendered yet.

Photo-A-Day #655 01/23/07

Spent much of the day doing videos. So I took today’s photo of me working on editing the videos and my setup for the video editing. I am really enjoying using Adobe Premiere Elements. I am looking forward to upgrading to the next version.

For the most part I am happy to be doing these videos but it gets a bit tedious. The edits the rendering and just basically the repetition.

I didn’t get to the gym today. I’m going to start going to the gym in the mornings. I’ve got to get there much more often than I do now.

Just been so busy.

Tag we are now it.

Mo Tagged both Allison and I for the latest meme.

Here it is. Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to list 10 movies: your 5 Favorites & your 5 Guilty Pleasures. Then, pick 5 of your friends and tag them. No tag backs. This explanation should be included.

Here is Allison’s List:

5 Favorites:
1. Pete’s Dragon
2. Serenity
3. Pirates of the Caribbean
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Dead Man’s Chest
5. Walk the Line

5 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Save the Last Dance
2. Bring It On
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
4. The Sound of Music
5. A Christmas Story

Here is My List:

5 Favorites:
1. Transformer’s the Movie
2. Serenity
3. Pump up the Volume
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Back to the Future

5 Guilty Pleasures:
1. A Christmas Story
2. Ready to Rumble
3. Rumble in the Bronx
4. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
5. Night at the Roxbury

I tag, Autumn, Stephen the Dog, Skeet, Laurie, and Cass

Photo-A-Day #654 01/22/07

Doesn’t this look like it was taken sometime int he seventies. Well, that is how I think it looks. I used a set of filters that my Great Uncle had. Unfortunately they are not the right size for my lens. So I held the filter over the lens and a little away from it because the lens needed to focus automatically. And when I took this I thought, man this looks like it was from the seventies. Duncan was a great little subject for me.

Today was pretty busy at work. I made a couple more videos and this is finally the week when the latest videos will be shown. Then I can get back to focusing on everything else. I’ve got a pretty intense travel schedule in March so I have to get geared up for that.

I’ve also been trying to get to the gym on a more regular basis and so far have been sticking to this.

Heroes is back on TV tonight. So I’m all done with this post. I’ll let you know what I think of it tomorrow.

Photo-A-Day #653 01/21/07

Today Allison and I went to Mass this morning and then over to see Andy and Rondi. They have a Nintendo Wii. Actually they have one because I gave them the one I got at Target last week. You know nothing of this? Well that is because I kept it quiet because it was for Andy’s birthday. On Wednesday I had a Doctor’s appointment and then went up to the Camera Company to get my camera fixed and on the way back I stopped into Target to see if they had any Wii’s in stock. I walked in and the usually un-stocked shelf was stocked with Nintendo Wii’s. So I bought one. Then I went outside and called Allison and asked her if she knew if Rondi was still looking for a Wii for Andy for his birthday. She was, so I went back in and attempted to by a second Wii. I was told that they had a limit of only one per household. And so I called Allison back and by the time she was out of work all of the Wii’s were gone. That is okay because I gave Allison the Wii I got and had her give it to Rondi so Andy could have it for his birthday when he returned from his trip.

We had a good time playing with the Wii and we played all the games for the sports part. Rondi dominated in Baseball. Allison and I played the boxing game, Then Rondi and Allison played. We all played bowling and I actually got 100 points, (For some reason I screw up bowling every time). We also played a game where you didn’t use the wiimotes with the sensor. It was a mindless shoot ‘em up side scroller. It was fun. Allison made some buffalo Chicken dip and brought it over. Very tasty stuff.

Then we headed home and Andy and Rondi came over to watch the game. Our beloved Patriots did not win. But it was nice having a full house over to watch the game. Jenn came over as well, plus Tara and Erik and Mom and Dad. We took Andy and Rondi and Jenn for a tour of the upstairs so they could see how things were progressing. They liked what they saw.

And don’t worry or think I am crazy for giving up the Wii. We will be buying one once it becomes available through Amazon.com. That way we can save some money and get money back because of the Amazon affiliates program.

Here is a picture of Stephen the Dog, he has a blog.

Photo-A-Day #652 01/20/07

Today I received my box of swag from PayPerPost. Included was a T-Shirt (Says Spreading Like Peanut Butter), the 13″ pen, a box of mints, the giant foam finger and $5.00 in Pingo cards. Not a bad deal. I sent them a framed picture of Allison and I for their Great Wall of Posties.

Tonight Amy and Ryan and Mason came over for dinner. They lent us their video camera so I can finally get the wedding video loaded into the computer. I tried a few things and they didn’t work then Amy showed me that I was connected to the wrong port on the camera. Then things went a little better. So I let the whole first tape run all the way through. However that was too much for the computer to process so I am going to have to work with capturing individual clips. That will be the next project. I am excited to get working on this project though. I think many folks have been wanting to see it. Well that will have to wait till this week is done because I have three videos left to do for work, plus a director’s cut of the intro for the folks who helped on the writing and acting. I owe it to them to show them the things they worked so hard on.

I have been busy

I have been so busy lately that I have not been able to do some decent posts about time wasters and fun stuff I have seen on the Internet or on TV.

first off I got my iPod and have since been loading it with every available podcast I can think of finding for all of my interests. I have found podcasts for comedy, nature, Photoshop and much more. I am going to look for some on motorcycles and kayaking and cooking as well. This crazy thing we call iTunes has been a lot of fun to explore. I can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner, much much sooner. But I can change. I have embraced my previous Mac self. Yes, early on we had an Apple IIC and I loved that computer I spent hours working on Print Shop and animation studio and even a Toy Maker program. That was so much fun. I don’t think I’ll be trading in the PC computers anytime soon but I have forever disassociated myself with the notion of purchasing a Zune. It is all iPod for me now man.

Last night brought back the return of one of my favorite TV shows, PSYCH. I am so glad this show is back. I just love the chemistry between Shawn and Gus. Last night’s episode also had the guy who played Red Foreman on That 70’s Show as a friend of Shawn’s father and his daughter was played by the girl who was Ted’s girlfriend last season on How I Met Your Mother (the girl who was the baker). I also like how Shawn and Gus are about my age and like a lot of the cheesy 80’s stuff that I also like. The show is phenomenal so you have to check it out.

Let’s see I found a site through Pop Candy that allows you to make your own M&M’s character. So I went ahead and made a brown M&M character. Here is the character I made of me and the one I made for a Brown M&M.

You can make your own character at the become an MM dot com website.

Well that is all for now. I have to go to the supermarket for dinner tonight.

Photo-A-Day #651 01/19/07

Tonight Allison and I went to dinner with Autumn and Kenny. We went to the Fortune House and had an amazing meal. Dinner was fantastic, as always.

It was really nice to see Autumn and Kenny, we have a great time talking through dinner and after dinner. We were there for quite a while and watched things slow down. Kenny brought his new camera bag and I brought my new tripod. We like to compare our toys and marvel at them whenever we catch up with each other. Kenny’s backpack is an adventure 9 photo backpack. It is awesome and has tons of pockets and they are movable to fit and protect all your photo gear. I have backpack envy right now.

Photo-A-Day #650 01/18/07

Today our Penguin arrived. The Penguin is a replacement soda maker. It came with six glass carafes and 4 carbonators. We’ve been without homemade soda for a while and are very happy to have some back in the house. Now we need to order some more soda mix. We are down to the flavors that we don’t like that much. If you are looking to get one of your own you can . You can also click on the banner on the sidebar. You can get so many different flavors and mix them however you would like. Good stuff and very tasty. Now when six friends come over with six different tastes I can whip up six different soda choices.

What to do with the other one? Mo you should order some Fountain Jet reusable bottles. You’ll be getting a full carbonator and the Fountain Jet machine and some sample packs. Don’t say I never gave you anything. Remember you gotta reorder your supplies through this site.

Orange Mango and Grape. Delicious