Showing posts with label computer meltdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer meltdown. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Mr. Hamilton the Movie Star

Part of the saga of the Computer Meltdown is the purchase of a new computer. Since I'm a Mac girl, I now have this fantastic iMovie studio in my computer.

Huh. Now I have to learn how to use it. So what better subject matter than Mr. Hamilton? It took me a while to figure this all out, but here is my first movie, all 21 seconds of it. Starring none other than Mr. Hamilton, that totally natural movie star himself. I took this over a year ago when I first got my digital video camera. Now with my iMovie studio, can Hollywood be far behind?




Oh, and yes, some day I'll tell you all about the Computer Meltdown...well, or maybe not...

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Bathroom Project Update - Week Four

Not much got done this Saturday morning. It's been the week from Hades. Nothing's gone right and I'm glad I'm about to enter a new week. Maybe this one will treat us kinder.

The main reason deserves a blog of its own. Let me just say, Computer Meltdown. The end of the story is, I have a new laptop and have yet to know if the data on my old hard drive will be retrieved. It's still at the shop.

Saturday morning, Warren was at the America Legion here in town at the annual Navy Club Chili Contest. This is a charity event that raises money to send a kid with cancer to summer camp. Big success--a good amount of money was raised. Warren didn't win, which is tradition, but everyone had a good time and lots of chili was eaten by all. The county commissioners who judged all found dollar bills taped to Warren's cups of chili. They all had a big laugh, which is also part of the day. If he's not going to win, he figures why not have fun.

Saturday afternoon we drove back up to Columbia to pick up my new laptop and I'm spending the rest of the weekend trying to remember WHAT I had bookmarked, remember passwords, download my website's html code and images, download Kompozer, download Graphic Converter... It's a NIGHTMARE! I'm crossing my fingers I can get the family photos back in the retrieval attempt, but won't know that till the middle of next week.

Now, if I can just get the right adapter so I can hook up my wide screen computer monitor. You can bet I'll be at Best Buy this morning at 10 am sharp! Trying to put a "good" cap on this week seems almost impossible. I'm still trying!

Warren did get some of the nasty glue off the plywood subfloor during the week, and may do more of that today. We slept in till 8 o'clock this morning, which is really rare for Warren. He gets up at 3 am in the morning during the week. He's going to have a terrible time getting any sleep tonight, what with sleeping so late this morning and the Super Bowl tonight.

Oh well, there's always Tuesday, always another week... We sure hope this one goes better than last week!