love/hate...

Battled the computer most of the day - seems the Kodak Playsport with included software does not like to shake hands with Adobe Premiere Elements 8.  Searched the internet and found way too many ways to get them to buddy up.  The only thing I decided on was to download the latest version of Quicktime and pull the SDHC card out of the camera and stick it into my computer.  Not sure exactly which fix did it yet, but now I can import video into my editing software.  Posted a rather lame video test up on YouTube just to show it can be done.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBFBK0wvfb0   at least there is no dust in the frame....

About a week ago, my new friend David Yaseen sent me photos from NYC.  I shipped a Field Lab tshirt to him awhile back and at my request, he just made it downtown to my old apartment building on Elizabeth St. for a photo op.  Hard to believe I spent 10 years of my life living here.

PlaySport...

Although yesterday was no labor day....I actually did some labor cleaning up the NW corner of the greenhouse - just didn't have time to do the after picture until today.  Now Benita has a little more room for her favorite mid-morning shade.

Today was just an errands day.  Did a laundry and water run.  Hooked up with my new friend - the famous Pablo Menudo down south this afternoon.  He has an electronically defective Maytag washing machine for my bike powered washing machine project.  I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow from him.

My new friends Abby and Jim came by today for the tour.  Benita didn't cooperate for their visit, but I put on a longhorn feeding show for them down the road....starring Beatice and Benito.  Hope to get a photo from them soon to post.

Been anguishing over my next camera purchase.  The G9 is still good for stills but dust inside the camera shows up in the videos.  Was leaning toward the very high end Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR upgrade.  Decided to go the super cheap route for now and bought the Kodak Playsport HD digital camcorder to experiment with.  The cam is waterproof so I reckon that means dust proof too.  Will post some tests with it tomorrow.  81,94,63,0,B