Ipad apps ; editing our Botswana video clips ; Thanksgiving
(posted from home)
(This post covers 14 – 30 November, 2011)
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Wednesday, 30 November -
I was awake until 0100 this morning and then awoke at 0630 and couldn't get back to sleep. What's THAT about?
I had some minor problems with my Adventure Motorcycle magazine subscription so dashed off an email to the publisher and ended up writing a set of recommendations for changes to their web site so others don't have the same problems.
I also happened upon a Field and Stream series of videos about an ATV expedition on the Canol Road and had to watch a few of them. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on the Canol Road, a mining road/trail between Whitehorse, Yukon and Norman Wells, NorthWest Territories.
That afternoon Labashi and I drove down to Home Depot to check out the water softener and uv light we think we want. On the way home we stopped at Chili's for supper, then came home to watch another old French classic movie, 'Belle de Jour' with Catherine Deneuve.
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Tuesday, 29 November -
Today I spent much of the day researching water softeners and ultraviolet water-treatment lights. We're thinking it's time to square away our borderline-quality water.
I also bought a subscription to Adventure Motorcycle magazine on the iPad today. One thing the digital revolution has done is bring down the cost of magazine subscriptions and I'm very happy to have the iPad ones.
I also downloaded Henry Morton Stanley's classic 'How I Found Livingstone: travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa'. I've been wanting to read this since watching 'Expedition Africa' earlier this year.
That evening we watched the 1955 French classic movie 'Diabolique' directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
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Monday, 28 November -
Last night I decided I didn't have nearly enough iPad games for the grand-niece so downloaded a few more-- Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, and Animatch.
In the afternoon I spent an inordinate amount of time gathering up all the equipment needed to run the boat motor for the last time this season. The earmuffs for the water supply were over in the storage unit so I brought back an entire load of storage drawers and went through them. I also use only fresh gas for this so I emptied the boat's gas tank into the gas can I use for my old mower and got some new gas from the local gas station.
The boat motor started right up despite not being run since my maintenance run of last Spring. This was a terrible year for boating. Spring was awful given that the water was very high and muddy. We were working all summer until the Africa trip and then found an inch of water in the basement when we returned so of course that had to be taken care of right away. Maybe I'll get some boating in next year.
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Sunday, 27 November -
We whiled away the morning then drove to Chambersburg to my brother's house for a Thanksgiving-weekend visit. I presented our Africa trip and we had Thanksgiving mac-and-cheese (the leftovers were all gone!) for supper. The grand-niece wore me out playing hide-and-seek and iPad games. What a cutie.
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Saturday, 26 November -
This morning I buzzed down to the gun shop to get my receipt signed off (I had forgotten to take it along when I picked up the Single Ten). I then rode over to Starbucks to fortify myself for a walk.
I did my end-to-end five miler at Rocky Ridge in 1:41 today and it seemed easy.
That evening we watched 'Without the King', a documentary about the royal family of Swaziland. We had started early so also watched '180 South', a documentary about a trip to Patagonia and efforts there to develop a new national park in Chile. Both good docs.
-----------------------------
Friday, 25 November -
Today we had a lazy morning then drove down to the Accomac Inn for lunch. We had the place to ourselves until the very end and enjoyed truly exceptional food.
Our guests left for home from the Accomac and we returned home to take it easy. That evening we caught the latest 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' eps.
----------------------------
Thursday, 24 November -
Today we met Labashi's eldest brother and his wife at Mom and Dad's. We watched the videos and stills I've collected from our Africa trip and then accompanied them to dinner in the dining room downstairs. The staff did an excellent job, somehow making a very tasty cafeteria-style Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey was moist and very tasty, the stuffing and gravy excellent and even the veggies were well-seasoned. We had a wonderful time.
We spent a very pleasant evening hosting our out-of-town guests.
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Wednesday, 23 November -
We cleaned house this morning in anticipation of visitors. I decided I need more video clips so did some last-minute editing and posting for much of the afternoon. I then tried to figure out how to transfer my finished videos to the iPad in case I have a problem connecting the laptop. Surprise, surprise--- it's not easy. I found third-party software that's supposed to work but expect it to somehow be crippled so don't want to do that.
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Tuesday, 22 November -
Today I got started on figuring out our work hours for the Chambersburg house this year. But my heart's not in it. I soon decided it's important to download some games onto the iPad to take along to visit my grand-neice and grand-nephew this weekend (LOL). And then of course I had to play with them to be sure they work properly! I also downloaded Hipmunk and did some airfare searches for some possible trips next year.
We watched 'Rock Stars' on TV that evening. I couldn't imagine what they'd do after the first ten minutes but they did a good job of keeping me interested in prying rocks off hillsides to make them safe for passing traffic. But what could they possibly do next week?
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Monday, 21 November -
I spent much of today editing four video clips of our encounters with elephants into one longish clip. I really, really need to concentrate on getting better raw footage. I had one shot of Labashi making supper in our campsite at Savuti which included a pan around to an elephant munching on tree branches nearby. My little camera is quite sensitive to movement and this footage is shaky. All I had to do was shoot it again, this time more carefully, and I didn't do that. So today I edited out the worst of the shakes and ran the clip through iMovies' stabilization process but only got just-barely-adequate footage.
That evening we watched 'In A Dream', a documentary about Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar.
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Sunday, 20 November -
I again spent another full day editing Botswana movies with iMovie. I finally could not stand being inside and so rode the GS down to Starbucks for a break late in the day.
That evening we watched 'The Borgias' pilot on DVD.
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Saturday, 19 November -
I spent the entire day editing videos on iMovie. I'm trying to get a series of them ready to take along when we visit family.
That evening we finished the 'Dexter' season 5 and watched two sample eps of 'Episodes'. I think we'll pass on that one even though we're starting to get desperate for a new show.
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Friday, 18 November -
Today I spent most of the day working with iMovie editing clips from our Bostwana trip. I'm just learning how to use iMovie but am starting to like it.
That afternoon I rode the motorcycle down to Rocky Ridge park and walked my 5-mile end-to-end route.
That evening we watched the latest 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' episodes on TV.
-----------------------------
Thursday, 17 November -
Today I took Labashi down to Nixon Park's nature center to look at the African wildlife exhibit. This is an amazing exhibit for a small local nature center. I took along the iPad and used the '360 Panorama' app to take a panoramic photo.
On the way down to Nixon Park we stopped into a deli called 'The Festive Board' in south York. I had run onto a listing for it while searching for new restaurants for us several days ago. We took a close look at the gourmet cheeses and wide variety of sandwiches and had a split a gourmet italian one.
-----------------------------
Wednesday, 16 November -
Today I ran over to the local library to get a new library card and spent an hour or so there. I misplaced my old one and now need it to download books to my Kindle-on-iPad app. I also spent an inordinate amount of time researching an interesting light-- the Fenix T72. Labashi says I'm a sucker for lights like this and I have to admit she has a point. I was excited over Cabela's 600-lumen LED light and now here's a 2200-lumen one. Too much money for now, though.
Labashi and I went out to Deb's Pizza for supper and then watched the extras on the Page One DVD.
----------------------------
Tuesday, 15 November -
I spent much of my morning looking for art exhibits and new restaurants to go visit. I really need to keep a closer eye on local events. I of course found some interesting things that happened last weekend but nothing for today or the rest of the week.
That evening we watched an excellent documentary-- 'Page One: Inside the New York Times'. Ya gotta love David Carr after seeing that.
-----------------------------
Monday, 14 November -
I spent much of the day playing with the iPad and looking for more apps for travel. I downloaded Gas Buddy and AllStays Camp and RV. The former finds prices at nearby gas stations and the latter is an extensive database of campsites. The AllStays product has already shown me campgrounds I didn't know existed in Florida. For the most part these are local-government-run campgrounds which don't appear on state maps or in campground lists. And they're typically cheap-- like me!
While trying out Gas Buddy I remembered I need to gas up Mocha Joe before my discount runs out at the Giant gas station. Today I got a 70-cents-per-gallon discount and saved $13 on a fill-up.
Back home I put a final coat of paint on the brickmold I had replaced around the mud-room door.
That evening we watched 'Barton Fink', another older Coen brothers production I've had queued up for months. Can you say 'magical realism'?
***** END OF POST **********
(posted from home)
(This post covers 14 – 30 November, 2011)
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Wednesday, 30 November -
I was awake until 0100 this morning and then awoke at 0630 and couldn't get back to sleep. What's THAT about?
I had some minor problems with my Adventure Motorcycle magazine subscription so dashed off an email to the publisher and ended up writing a set of recommendations for changes to their web site so others don't have the same problems.
I also happened upon a Field and Stream series of videos about an ATV expedition on the Canol Road and had to watch a few of them. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on the Canol Road, a mining road/trail between Whitehorse, Yukon and Norman Wells, NorthWest Territories.
That afternoon Labashi and I drove down to Home Depot to check out the water softener and uv light we think we want. On the way home we stopped at Chili's for supper, then came home to watch another old French classic movie, 'Belle de Jour' with Catherine Deneuve.
----------------------------
Tuesday, 29 November -
Today I spent much of the day researching water softeners and ultraviolet water-treatment lights. We're thinking it's time to square away our borderline-quality water.
I also bought a subscription to Adventure Motorcycle magazine on the iPad today. One thing the digital revolution has done is bring down the cost of magazine subscriptions and I'm very happy to have the iPad ones.
I also downloaded Henry Morton Stanley's classic 'How I Found Livingstone: travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa'. I've been wanting to read this since watching 'Expedition Africa' earlier this year.
That evening we watched the 1955 French classic movie 'Diabolique' directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
-----------------------------
Monday, 28 November -
Last night I decided I didn't have nearly enough iPad games for the grand-niece so downloaded a few more-- Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, and Animatch.
In the afternoon I spent an inordinate amount of time gathering up all the equipment needed to run the boat motor for the last time this season. The earmuffs for the water supply were over in the storage unit so I brought back an entire load of storage drawers and went through them. I also use only fresh gas for this so I emptied the boat's gas tank into the gas can I use for my old mower and got some new gas from the local gas station.
The boat motor started right up despite not being run since my maintenance run of last Spring. This was a terrible year for boating. Spring was awful given that the water was very high and muddy. We were working all summer until the Africa trip and then found an inch of water in the basement when we returned so of course that had to be taken care of right away. Maybe I'll get some boating in next year.
-----------------------------
Sunday, 27 November -
We whiled away the morning then drove to Chambersburg to my brother's house for a Thanksgiving-weekend visit. I presented our Africa trip and we had Thanksgiving mac-and-cheese (the leftovers were all gone!) for supper. The grand-niece wore me out playing hide-and-seek and iPad games. What a cutie.
-----------------------------
Saturday, 26 November -
This morning I buzzed down to the gun shop to get my receipt signed off (I had forgotten to take it along when I picked up the Single Ten). I then rode over to Starbucks to fortify myself for a walk.
I did my end-to-end five miler at Rocky Ridge in 1:41 today and it seemed easy.
That evening we watched 'Without the King', a documentary about the royal family of Swaziland. We had started early so also watched '180 South', a documentary about a trip to Patagonia and efforts there to develop a new national park in Chile. Both good docs.
-----------------------------
Friday, 25 November -
Today we had a lazy morning then drove down to the Accomac Inn for lunch. We had the place to ourselves until the very end and enjoyed truly exceptional food.
Our guests left for home from the Accomac and we returned home to take it easy. That evening we caught the latest 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' eps.
----------------------------
Thursday, 24 November -
Today we met Labashi's eldest brother and his wife at Mom and Dad's. We watched the videos and stills I've collected from our Africa trip and then accompanied them to dinner in the dining room downstairs. The staff did an excellent job, somehow making a very tasty cafeteria-style Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey was moist and very tasty, the stuffing and gravy excellent and even the veggies were well-seasoned. We had a wonderful time.
We spent a very pleasant evening hosting our out-of-town guests.
---------------------------
Wednesday, 23 November -
We cleaned house this morning in anticipation of visitors. I decided I need more video clips so did some last-minute editing and posting for much of the afternoon. I then tried to figure out how to transfer my finished videos to the iPad in case I have a problem connecting the laptop. Surprise, surprise--- it's not easy. I found third-party software that's supposed to work but expect it to somehow be crippled so don't want to do that.
--------------------------
Tuesday, 22 November -
Today I got started on figuring out our work hours for the Chambersburg house this year. But my heart's not in it. I soon decided it's important to download some games onto the iPad to take along to visit my grand-neice and grand-nephew this weekend (LOL). And then of course I had to play with them to be sure they work properly! I also downloaded Hipmunk and did some airfare searches for some possible trips next year.
We watched 'Rock Stars' on TV that evening. I couldn't imagine what they'd do after the first ten minutes but they did a good job of keeping me interested in prying rocks off hillsides to make them safe for passing traffic. But what could they possibly do next week?
--------------------------
Monday, 21 November -
I spent much of today editing four video clips of our encounters with elephants into one longish clip. I really, really need to concentrate on getting better raw footage. I had one shot of Labashi making supper in our campsite at Savuti which included a pan around to an elephant munching on tree branches nearby. My little camera is quite sensitive to movement and this footage is shaky. All I had to do was shoot it again, this time more carefully, and I didn't do that. So today I edited out the worst of the shakes and ran the clip through iMovies' stabilization process but only got just-barely-adequate footage.
That evening we watched 'In A Dream', a documentary about Philadelphia artist Isaiah Zagar.
----------------------------
Sunday, 20 November -
I again spent another full day editing Botswana movies with iMovie. I finally could not stand being inside and so rode the GS down to Starbucks for a break late in the day.
That evening we watched 'The Borgias' pilot on DVD.
-----------------------------
Saturday, 19 November -
I spent the entire day editing videos on iMovie. I'm trying to get a series of them ready to take along when we visit family.
That evening we finished the 'Dexter' season 5 and watched two sample eps of 'Episodes'. I think we'll pass on that one even though we're starting to get desperate for a new show.
-----------------------------
Friday, 18 November -
Today I spent most of the day working with iMovie editing clips from our Bostwana trip. I'm just learning how to use iMovie but am starting to like it.
That afternoon I rode the motorcycle down to Rocky Ridge park and walked my 5-mile end-to-end route.
That evening we watched the latest 'Gold Rush' and 'Flying Wild Alaska' episodes on TV.
-----------------------------
Thursday, 17 November -
Today I took Labashi down to Nixon Park's nature center to look at the African wildlife exhibit. This is an amazing exhibit for a small local nature center. I took along the iPad and used the '360 Panorama' app to take a panoramic photo.
On the way down to Nixon Park we stopped into a deli called 'The Festive Board' in south York. I had run onto a listing for it while searching for new restaurants for us several days ago. We took a close look at the gourmet cheeses and wide variety of sandwiches and had a split a gourmet italian one.
-----------------------------
Wednesday, 16 November -
Today I ran over to the local library to get a new library card and spent an hour or so there. I misplaced my old one and now need it to download books to my Kindle-on-iPad app. I also spent an inordinate amount of time researching an interesting light-- the Fenix T72. Labashi says I'm a sucker for lights like this and I have to admit she has a point. I was excited over Cabela's 600-lumen LED light and now here's a 2200-lumen one. Too much money for now, though.
Labashi and I went out to Deb's Pizza for supper and then watched the extras on the Page One DVD.
----------------------------
Tuesday, 15 November -
I spent much of my morning looking for art exhibits and new restaurants to go visit. I really need to keep a closer eye on local events. I of course found some interesting things that happened last weekend but nothing for today or the rest of the week.
That evening we watched an excellent documentary-- 'Page One: Inside the New York Times'. Ya gotta love David Carr after seeing that.
-----------------------------
Monday, 14 November -
I spent much of the day playing with the iPad and looking for more apps for travel. I downloaded Gas Buddy and AllStays Camp and RV. The former finds prices at nearby gas stations and the latter is an extensive database of campsites. The AllStays product has already shown me campgrounds I didn't know existed in Florida. For the most part these are local-government-run campgrounds which don't appear on state maps or in campground lists. And they're typically cheap-- like me!
While trying out Gas Buddy I remembered I need to gas up Mocha Joe before my discount runs out at the Giant gas station. Today I got a 70-cents-per-gallon discount and saved $13 on a fill-up.
Back home I put a final coat of paint on the brickmold I had replaced around the mud-room door.
That evening we watched 'Barton Fink', another older Coen brothers production I've had queued up for months. Can you say 'magical realism'?
***** END OF POST **********
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