On Getting Older

A few years back, right after divorce #1, I started a tradition of buying gifts for myself. I had never allowed myself selfish purchases before because, well we were poor. My first gift was a digital camera for my first Valentine's Day alone in 2003. It was a Kodak LS 443 and yes, I paid $500 for it. That was an enormous amount of money for me, but I saved and paid cash. I was ROCKIN' with 4MP and a great zoom. I still have that camera today.

This year for my birthday I traded my MacMini to the husband and some cash for a new camcorder. I wanted the Sony SR300, but they didn't stock it in the store and I wanted it today, so I settled for the HDR-SR5. I'm still deciding if it will make it past the 14 day period when I can take it back, but so far so good. Now I need a new processor because these videos make mine chug ;)

It helped that I used the excuse that my little brother is getting married next month and I'd like to tape it for him.

Burn, Baby, Burn

Well the new DVD burner arrived a few days ago. I finally had time to unpack it today. It seems pretty sweet so far. Installation was smooth and the first couple DVDs came out great. I've been going through what is left of my movies after my miserable HD failure in July (note to others: a back-up hard drive SEEMS like a good place to store stuff, but don't be lazy, make a permanent copy). I LOVE the ease of iMovie and iDVD...beats VideoStudio and Pinnacle hands down. Even though it did crash (as they always do), at least it stored all the clips in a trash can and saved me a lot of reconstruction work. I thought Macs didn't crash?

I think I have a lot of movies left on my miniDV tapes because I always forget if I've stored them and just buy new ones. Once I track down where I put the DC cord for the camcorder I'm going to try some more movies.

Incidentally, Blogger Beta doesn't work with Safari, neither does Yahoo Mail beta. Also, I do not like the generic Mac keyboard or mouse. I'm used to my wireless Logitech. I'll be putting the Mac version on my Christmas list. And yes, I ran out of wall outlets a LONG time ago!