Spread your wings and fly away

Trying to put the performance I taped the other night onto video.

It is at times like this I had an editing suite.

The cacorder that keeps playing back in mosaic is still doing it and that is the one that can be connected to the pc to edit - however the film is absolytely useless and not working properly so not much point in doing that.

The other camcorder that is old has done a pretty good job but unfortunately because its battery decided to die half way through a song, it isn't a good copy of the performance.

So there I was trying to get the good bits from one film and join it to the good bits of another film.

Did it work?

Did it heckers like.

So now I am only going to tape the performance filmed on the old camera and be done with it. There will be a gap in performance but it is the best I can do

I now know the words to all the songs the children sang though I have played it back that many times

For his birthday, little Patrick asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His
Father said, "Son, we'd give you one, but the mortgage on this house is
$280,000 & your mother just lost her job. There's no way we can
afford
it."

The next day the father saw little Patrick heading out the front door
with a suitcase. So he asked, "Son, where are you going?" Little
Patrick told him,

"I was walking past your room last night and heard you telling Mom
you
were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait because
she was coming too. I'll be damned if I'm staying here by myself with a
$280,000 mortgage & no bike!"

A man called home to his wife and said, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing up in Canada with my boss & several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so could you please pack enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and fishing box? We're leaving from the office & I will swing by the house to pick my things up." "Oh! Please pack my new blue silk pajamas." The wife thinks this sounds a bit fishy but being the good wife she is, did exactly what her husband asked. The following weekend he came home a little tired but otherwise looking good. The wife welcomed him home and asked if he caught many fish? He said, "Yes! Lots of Salmon, some Bluegill, and a few Swordfish. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?"

(You'll love the answer...)

The wife replied, "I did. They're in your fishing box..........

Makes a change from the blonde girl joke we usually get lol

The very first ever Blonde GUY joke..... And well worth the wait?

'Don't look at me.
The idiot makes his own lunch.'

Yes life has been a little hectic lately, but managed to find five minutes to catch up

So what has been happening in Faffa's world?

Various goings ons connected to work and life in general really. Tuesday was spent at the school production as son was in the choir, where I was asked if I could record it. So had to go along again on Wednesday and film it though this was a little difficult as I have one camrecorder that when it plays back it either goes to the blue screen or the picture has the occasional mosaic pattern on it. So after reading the instruction booklet, off I traipse to the local camera store to buy a head cleaning kit and some new tapes and follow the instructions to clean the head. Put new tape in, do a few minutes recording and then play it back - mosaic pattern appears sporadically again. So I redo the above procedure and it keeps happening, by which time I am getting annoyed.

The instruction booklet says it is normal but it is very annoying all the same. Any ideas? the camera is Samsung VP-D361 http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/camcorder/dvc/vp_d361xeu.asp?page=Specifications

Anyway I digress. We dug out old camcorder and tripod as this is a lot heavier than the Samsung one, and took that as well as the new one to film the play in the hope that what I don't get on one I will get on the other

So filming went well till about half way through when the battery on one of the recorders died, even though it had been charged, so we fiddled about trying to change batteries during the 'critical' bit of the play. Eventually though we managed to get it filmed.

Should have left at the end of the show, but son volunteered to help tidy away and help the lighting engineer (oh yes it was all very professionally done) take down all his cables etc and dismantle the stage. AT 10.30pm we finally left, shattered and aching after standing around for so long.

Thursday, work then go to Parent's evening for my eldest. Great fun. Sit there being told by every teacher how quite he is, what a great learner he is, how bright he is, how well he is doing - great but I already knew that tell me what we can do to help him get good marks in his GCSE's next year so that he can achieve his ambition, but apparently he is on line for getting As in all of his GCSE as long as he is prepared to put a little extra into his work - he will have a busy summer holiday then in preparation lol!

Today will have to go into work later - I know it is Friday - but we are going to do some juicing of fruits so I am taking my juicer in The kids will love it.

So there is a brief synopsis of me being away, if you have managed to read this far congratulations!!!

Hugs x