Sometime around 3AM this morning the low here at home reached -9.4F. That’s pretty cold. 🙂 Makes me glad the [thick] flannel sheets were put on the bed. Bed was toasty! And it was good!

I forgot to mention last night that I put two new videos of Kirstin up on YouTube. She was being pretty cute and crawly, so some quick shots were taken. Good stuff!

I finally upgraded my installation of Winamp at the office today. As a result, I started using a new skin just out of curiosity and in a very specific way have come to really like it. Combined with global hotkeys, I can do many actions without bringing it to the foreground and I can see the basic title information pop up in the foreground as each new piece begins. Awesome!

So I’ve been playing around with it at home here a bit as well; I think I may have finally switched from my old trustworthy skin. We’ll see.

I saw bits of the Christmas version of Celtic Woman on PBS last night. It was intriguing, so I intend to either watch and/or capture it to watch later when it comes back on again (which isn’t until Wednesday). I don’t always care for all of their stuff, but they always have some cool bits wrapped in the entire package which makes it worth watching.

I also have some other video to capture, mostly for archival purposes. Pretty much all of this stuff is on VHS, so I need to clear out some disk space and go to town. Beth might have to learn how to capture video. 🙂 Or babysit the process, actually. But I have to move some existing stuff to [data] DVD first.

Anyway, just as a random statistic for the day. I’ve taken more or less exactly 6GB of pictures so far in 2007. Crazy! This compares to 289MB in 2006, 228MB in 2005, 90MB in 2004, 144MB in 2003, and 140MB in 2002 (when I first got the camera). This isn’t all-inclusive; there are about 420MB worth of images from the various One-Act productions…but it’s pretty obvious what my compulsive picture-taking has done…in sheer volume alone.

Since December 22, 2006, the camera has been used to take 6,747 pictures!

So now that I’ve bored you with strange and somewhat useless statistical data, I’m going to call it a night and sign off.

Until next time…

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

–MZ