Bizarro Forecasting, a trip to 'Vegas,' and techno-miracles
Okay, I get it.
Forecast snow for Friday night = no snow.
Forecast no snow for Saturday night = snow.
It's like bizarro world from Seinfeld (and the Superman universe). Everything's backwards. Opposite.
Sorry that I'm always on a weather kick. But being a weather junkie AND snow lover, I can be pretty obnoxious this time of year (even more so than normal).
On the bright side, it's snowing. It's beautiful. It may not amount to much, but I'll take what I can get. Man, I should live further north. Not so far north that I get sick of snow. Stacey's sister lives in Minnesota, and snow there is like underwear...nice when it's fresh, but you don't want to leave it on all season. Maybe I could live in Nashville...or Lousville.
But then I'd be further from the beach... Oh, well...I guess I can't have both...
On the down side...church may be affected in the a.m. if snow sticks to the roads. Obviously, we can't tell right now...but, fortunately, there's a backup plan in place if snow keeps people away.
...
Spent all yesterday evening and all day today editing a video for church in Vegas 6.0. In the end, it was only 10 minutes of video (about 6 minutes of interview footage and 4 minutes of stock 'church' footage from past events). Amazing how long that took to put together. The longest part was picking and choosing (and sub-clipping) the 6 minutes of interview footage from over an hour of 'raw' footage. Yee-ow. Still, I think the work paid off...I hope it goes over well tomorrow at church (or the next week, if the snow-thing amounts to anything more than a dusting).
...
While pulling the video from camcorder for my project, I realized that the tape heads needed to be cleaned. Okay, such is not blogworthy. But... Being Jonny A.D.D., I got side-tracked and pulled out my old JVC DV camcorder that hasn't worked in 3 years. I quit using it when refused to play tapes, and bought the Samsung we have now. At that time, it acted like the heads were dirty, but eventually gave me some EO4 error code (whatever that means) and wouldn't eject a tape. Anyway, I picked it up, plugged it in, and...as expected...it didn't work.
Being technically 'saavy,' though, I decided to force the tape to eject. (I think I hit it with my hand a few times, too). Then, miraculously, the tape ejected. Woohoo! But...still had the error code.
Amazingly, after turning it on and off a few times and starting and re-starting a tape, the code FINALLY went away. Still no playback, though.
But after running a cleaning tape 10 times (you're not supposed to do it more than 3), TADA! The once-dead device is now (knock on wood) working again. Weird.
Amazing what a little head cleaner and a hard smack with the palm of your hand will do to a broken piece of electronics.
I blogged about this because this made me happy. So sue me. With some of the other stresses in my life right now (see previous posts), I'll take what I can get...
Forecast snow for Friday night = no snow.
Forecast no snow for Saturday night = snow.
It's like bizarro world from Seinfeld (and the Superman universe). Everything's backwards. Opposite.
Sorry that I'm always on a weather kick. But being a weather junkie AND snow lover, I can be pretty obnoxious this time of year (even more so than normal).
On the bright side, it's snowing. It's beautiful. It may not amount to much, but I'll take what I can get. Man, I should live further north. Not so far north that I get sick of snow. Stacey's sister lives in Minnesota, and snow there is like underwear...nice when it's fresh, but you don't want to leave it on all season. Maybe I could live in Nashville...or Lousville.
But then I'd be further from the beach... Oh, well...I guess I can't have both...
On the down side...church may be affected in the a.m. if snow sticks to the roads. Obviously, we can't tell right now...but, fortunately, there's a backup plan in place if snow keeps people away.
...
Spent all yesterday evening and all day today editing a video for church in Vegas 6.0. In the end, it was only 10 minutes of video (about 6 minutes of interview footage and 4 minutes of stock 'church' footage from past events). Amazing how long that took to put together. The longest part was picking and choosing (and sub-clipping) the 6 minutes of interview footage from over an hour of 'raw' footage. Yee-ow. Still, I think the work paid off...I hope it goes over well tomorrow at church (or the next week, if the snow-thing amounts to anything more than a dusting).
...
While pulling the video from camcorder for my project, I realized that the tape heads needed to be cleaned. Okay, such is not blogworthy. But... Being Jonny A.D.D., I got side-tracked and pulled out my old JVC DV camcorder that hasn't worked in 3 years. I quit using it when refused to play tapes, and bought the Samsung we have now. At that time, it acted like the heads were dirty, but eventually gave me some EO4 error code (whatever that means) and wouldn't eject a tape. Anyway, I picked it up, plugged it in, and...as expected...it didn't work.
Being technically 'saavy,' though, I decided to force the tape to eject. (I think I hit it with my hand a few times, too). Then, miraculously, the tape ejected. Woohoo! But...still had the error code.
Amazingly, after turning it on and off a few times and starting and re-starting a tape, the code FINALLY went away. Still no playback, though.
But after running a cleaning tape 10 times (you're not supposed to do it more than 3), TADA! The once-dead device is now (knock on wood) working again. Weird.
Amazing what a little head cleaner and a hard smack with the palm of your hand will do to a broken piece of electronics.
I blogged about this because this made me happy. So sue me. With some of the other stresses in my life right now (see previous posts), I'll take what I can get...
2 Comments:
Great job on the video, it turned out nicely.
Sorry I was bitching about sound stuff. I was just twisted over the last minute addition of the muffling stuff right before we were to start playing today.
Heh...
I understand. Fortunately, Stacey said that little bit of sound dampening actually made a HUGE difference in controlling drum volume.
So, the faux pax actually paid off this morning...heh.
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