Indoor Activities

I bought some hair curlers and rolled my hair after showering this AM. I haven't had hair long enough to curl up is soooo many years. It's a pain, but I felt like I needed some sort of change. I bought the kind of curler that has a brush inside and a pick to hold it in place. They HURT! They're WORSE to take out! Guess I always have to experiment with stuff.

Yesterday, my first husband sent me a DVD of some old 8mm movies that he'd been storing in his garage for over 45 years. Somehow, he has put them together in a 1 hour long "movie" on the DVD and thought I'd like to have a copy. It was bittersweet. It shows he and me and our parents and siblings before we were married. It continues on with segments of our wedding, honeymoon trip to FL, a New Year's party in the old log cabin where we first lived, our first child until the age of 1 and then our 2nd child (son who died at age 37) and ends with a shot of our third son as an infant. There is a segment of my (now 71) brother in 1956 performing amateur stunts on his motorcycle.

More to this tale now:

I spent yesterday making my own movie on the computer(s) of just my brother riding. It was an experiment and extreme test of persistence. (I have never used the DVD player on my new computer.) Well, the DVD wouldn't play and froze it. I had to pull the power plug to get outta there!

Sooooo I tried it on the old Y2K computer. That old baby only has a total 80MB hard drive, but---it played! I couldn't get rid of the "controller" because every time I told the computer to "hide controller" the DVD would stop and I had to start all over again! I got the bright idea then to copy the section I wanted of it right off of that computer with my regular digital camera set on movie mode. Then I imported it from my camera into my newer computer and made a short iMovie. I then uploaded it to YouTube and shared it with my brother and his only child, a son with a wild and creative streak, too. They both let me know today that they got a kick out of watching it. I'll attach my link to YouTube for you to see what I did.

Today, my nephew wrote asking me, "Is there ANY way to get a copy of the original file? I want to use it in a video I've been planning for a year now.... Affectionately titled "The Boys" :) " Well I answered him with the information of how to contact my first husband and, get this, they practically live down the street from each other!! YES!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2ouBnQ6Qk

By the way.....The TV was running in the other room when I was shooting the movie of the DVD which was running on an 11 year old computer. I wouldn't tell my husband to turn it down. He's very hard of hearing. Go with the flow rules in this case! I could have made my movie without sound, but didn't.... so people will just have to turn down their volume if they don't like the background sounds!