A nice weekend spent not doing what should have been done! No grass cutting, no trips to drop things off at the thrift store, a hearty Italianate meal on Friday, ice cream cake on Saturday, a new quarter begun for Sunday school and everyone was actually there and ready to teach, and the video camera got a workout.
I tell you what--I've got some kids with scary-good comic timing. After all the gift unwrapping Saturday afternoon, Catherine wanted to go ride her bicycle in the street. As is our agreement, she has to have an adult out there to help watch for cars (we have a few too many people who think any straight stretch of road is the equivalent of the front straight at Talladega). I had started a new disc in the video camera, and thought I might get a few shots of her zipping along happily on her bike, which I did, and then got her off to the driveway for a moment and began asking her some questions about history and such.
"Hey, Cat--tell me, who was the first President of the United States?"
"GEORGE WASHINGTON!"
"Very good--and his wife's name was?"
::pause::
"Um, Helen Washington?"
And from there evolved another fifteen minutes of schtick that would have made Burns and Allen ashamed to have even be on stage. I don't know where she got such chops. And then the birthday girl came outside to see what was going on, and she's just as funny. Where in the world did that come from?!
IN OTHER NEWS, looks like our little bridge over the Pinchgut is finally open now--and just as I predicted, it's a noble, safe, modern thing that completely blocks the view of what it is that you're crossing over. Gasoline was down to $2.05 this morning. (Of course, what most of you don't know is that for people who vote Republican, we've been buying gas at $1.03 for years now. Yep, sure have. Big secret, though. Don't tell anyone.) My mom's doing okay--went and picked her up after work Friday so she could go out to eat with us. She said my car rode too rough. Almost as bad as her Infiniti G35. We got some rain early Sunday morning before the sun came up. Probably a bunch more stuff, but right now, I have to go to our wonderful Monday morning staff meeting.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Sounds like you have the PossuMTV Comedy Hour going there. Will this be available in streaming video over the 'Net? If CBS can do it, I'd think PossuMTV can.
Posted by: Stan at October 2, 2006 11:56 AMWell, you technical gurus are going to have to tell me how to do this. The mini-DVD-Rs I have--can they be read by a computer, or do I need to record on DVD-RAM? I have a Hitachi DZMV730AVP and a complete lack of skill in computer video stuff.
Well, I will cheerfully admit I have no experience in that area--but if no one else chimes in (though I suspect you have other readers FAR more knowledgeable than me about this) I'll do some research and see what I can turn up. Be afraid...be VERY afraid!
Posted by: Stan at October 2, 2006 11:24 PM