Crunch.
UPDATE III: Yesterday, Sunday at the Industrial Park when it's even quieter than a graveyard, I went back to work wrestling my videos. I got there at 10, after a big breakfast of hash and eggs to sustain me, and went right to work knowing that all I learned yesterday would be at the forefront of my mind and it would be a piece o' cake getting the video shot and edited. What I neglected to take into account was that I am 108 years old and have Swiss Cheese brain now. You can tell me all sorts of things and I get them immediately but if I glance away, the whole idea takes off like a phantom. I hate getting dumb, I USED TO BE in the middle of average! Take One- SO, I took a few stills with the camera and put them in the computer, then set up the tripod in front of the tall chair (so you couldn't see up my nose), hit the button and sat down. I had notes, and pretty much steamed through the whole bit easily. Unscrewed the camera and headed back to the computer where I downloaded...(sigh) one still picture of my empty chair. Yup, I forgot to set it back to movie-mode.Take Two- everything checked out, I hit the button and sat down and went through the whole bit again. It went even better this time and I was right at the end, the last bit where I am talking about the still pictures I had added that morning, and WOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOooooooo. Yup, my phone started ringing. WOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOooooooo. I use the Sci-Fi ring because nobody else does and it's nice and loud. Bad mistake. I started laughing hysterically, got up and hit the stop button. Two takes lost. But hey, at least the AC wasn't running. (But it sure should have been I was getting pretty hot.) When I got to the phone it was a robo-call, of course.Break time in front of the computer where I played around a bit more with the completed video which was just a voice-over. It's now about 1 PM and I'm feeling peckish.Take Three- went smoothly, a minimum of ummms, but some facts and words were forgotten and flummoxed me mid-sentence. But what the hell, I called it done, took the camera off the tripod and plugged it in to download. All went smoothly BUT when I reviewed it I barely recognized the woman in the video- her hair was a wreck, her eyes were bloodshot, and she could have used a few minutes of grooming. But the video stood up to the Acceptable Level- that's today's 'acceptable', not the standard I started out with.And...then...the...trouble...began. I'll say the words: iMovie. All that I had managed to do the day before was lost in my brain history. RE-LEARN iMovie, and for the life of me I couldn't get the audio behind the stills, until it happened by accident. Whew. Sent it to youTube immediately just to get OUT of that studio and get something to eat. OMG, the upload took 25 minutes, then whatever youTube does took another 25 minutes. I didn't dare leave until I got the code, but I did finally. I got home at 5:30 with a raging headache and such a sense of relief that it's over, whatever it is!
I need some new sneakers so I will perhaps go walking more frequently and for longer durations than just racing the dog out to the front grass to pee. I've narrowed it down to two different shoes- you pick for me. The first pair on in the lead, probably because I have always lusted after a pair of alligator shoes:
Horrors; You may require some downtime today so you can think about the recent twists and turns in your life. Unfortunately, the road ahead is not very easy to navigate, so it's a sensible idea to visualize a more direct route to success. Don't be concerned if there aren't immediate changes in your circumstances, for it may take some time for the current resistance to fade away.Ya think?
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