I realize at this point that I am posting so infrequently that I’m probably just talking to myself. At least I can consider myself in good company.

Summer is officially over as Anna has started the first grade. The first day was mildly traumatic as we would expect, but since then everything has been going well. This week will be our first full week and hopefully we can get our daily routine down. The next few weeks will be very interesting as I have two shoots coming up for Hawaiian Tropic pageants, and some of my volleyball crew are considering making their own calendar. I have a business trip to Singapore next month, and we’re trying to squeeze in a weekend getaway in there too.

I got fed up with my old Mini-DV camcorder and bought the cheapest HDD-based camcorder I could find, the Panasonic SDR-H18. It records to an internal 30GB drive or a SD or SDHC card. It then connects to the computer just like an external hard drive, and I figured out the command line magic so that I can go from camera to completely full single-layer DVD in 2x real time. At this point I want to capture, save and distribute. Editing is for people with more time and skills than I have.

I’m sure there’s a ton more stuff going on at that point than I am able to recall, but I’m sure I’ll remember and forget it about 73 times between now and my next post three weeks from now.