Home Alone
Why isn’t Thursday the 13th an ominous day? Do you think Steve noticed that I posted late yesterday? I’m just full of questions. Like, how do I maximize the quality of the compressed version of my bike trip video for uploading to YouTube? It was suggested that I could do that, so I went back the to program I use to create the video and looked at the options and found there are many choices and I have limited understanding of the parameters to which they pertain. And, wouldn’t you know it, the 4 basic recommended aspects that are highlighted on Google’s YouTube help page, don’t appear as options on any of the settings selectable from within the video application. Is that a surprise to anyone?
The good news is that I have some time to think about it now. With no concrete deadlines before me, I can take a day or two to relax. And speaking of relaxing, I am home alone for a couple of evenings! Wife–traveling for work, son–back to college, daughter–working a band camp for a week. Woo hoo! I’ll try to act somewhat dignified and deny any hint of having written this here, but isn’t it just grand to have the place to yourself every once in a while? Even though I am full of questions, that one was pretty much rhetorical.
Be careful today. It’s the thirteenth.
…And I’m home alone. !ö!
Relative Something 
The perfectionist in me wishes I had prepared a way to project the sound of the song to a room full of people. As it was, the laptop lacked oomph that I decided to augment by singing along, live, so they could get the gist of images matching with lyrics. I think it presented well enough. It was fun!
johnwhays
August 13, 2009 at 3:05 pm
So, how DID your presentation go?
Mary
August 13, 2009 at 2:48 pm
THANKS JOHN! It took me back to the middle of June. That was great!
Steve R
August 13, 2009 at 10:23 am
I can’t seem to keep my hands out of the engine on this thing and I’ve mucked it up a bit trying to upload a higher quality version. In the mean time, the original one should be available again at Wednesday’s post…
johnwhays
August 13, 2009 at 10:02 am
Yes I noticed you were late, I just had another cup of coffee later. Where do I hook up with Video?
By the way, 13 is my lucky number and I sould be having a good day, but not so far.
Thanks for the bright spot, Steve
Steve R
August 13, 2009 at 9:54 am