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Published On: Aug 05, 2007 08:38 AM
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Published On: Aug 05, 2007 08:38 AM
Light blogging for the next month
Busy. Simply too
busy.
I anticipate that the next month's blogging will
be just as light as April's. Mainly, I've got a ton of work to do, some of
which was put off because of jury duty, some of which is new. There's no way
around
it.
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I submitted a budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year and new tuition structure to the daycare center's Board of Directors (of which I'm a member and Chief Financial Officer, aka Treasurer) on 4/19, but then a few days later I remembered that the data I used to project salaries and wages was biased low due to a pay date shift by the 4th of July weekend last year. I ended up having to revise the budget and tuitions this past week, and I sent out the revisions to the rest of the Board by e-mail on Friday.
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This weekend, I finally got around to working on the family video from our second Disney World vacation from November 2004. The video files have been taking up over 50 gigabytes of hard drive space. Luckily, I found out how to add hundreds of transitions to the video in one operation, and I also found out that I could fit 4 hours of video onto a dual layer DVD+R disc using iDVD 6, which meant that I had to edit about four hours and twenty minutes of video down to just below four hours. I finished the editing just a few hours ago, and my Power Mac has been saving the video into one long file, which I'll later incorporate onto a DVD using iDVD.
The DVD probably won't be as concise or as polished as the DVD from our first Disney World vacation. That DVD was made with an earlier version of iDVD and without dual layer discs being available, so I was forced to edit more carefully.
Still, I'm glad to get this one done so I can eventually (later this summer?) work on our third vacation DVD. Unfortunately, I have about 9 hours of footage from that vacation. This process should make me more careful in what video footage I choose to shoot in the future.
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While working on the video late last night, I went out to the family room on my way to the kitchen for a drink, when I noticed Bessie sitting on "my" chair. I don't usually allow her on the chair, but she looked so comfortable and happy that I ended up taking over 20 photos of her.
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Now that William is 5 years old, we don't make him take naps on weekends, though we do require that nap time be replaced by quiet time if he chooses not to nap. No TV (which I'm trying to limit anyway), no computer or video games, no exciting toys. Just quiet resting, maybe reading a book or working on an activity book. Saturday afternoon, I set William the task of reading some Dick and Jane stories and an Easy To Read book of Disney stories. When James woke up from his nap, he came into my office with another book, saw William reading, and started imitating his older brother.
James also took a back seat to watch his brother play with a computer.
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I submitted a budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year and new tuition structure to the daycare center's Board of Directors (of which I'm a member and Chief Financial Officer, aka Treasurer) on 4/19, but then a few days later I remembered that the data I used to project salaries and wages was biased low due to a pay date shift by the 4th of July weekend last year. I ended up having to revise the budget and tuitions this past week, and I sent out the revisions to the rest of the Board by e-mail on Friday.
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This weekend, I finally got around to working on the family video from our second Disney World vacation from November 2004. The video files have been taking up over 50 gigabytes of hard drive space. Luckily, I found out how to add hundreds of transitions to the video in one operation, and I also found out that I could fit 4 hours of video onto a dual layer DVD+R disc using iDVD 6, which meant that I had to edit about four hours and twenty minutes of video down to just below four hours. I finished the editing just a few hours ago, and my Power Mac has been saving the video into one long file, which I'll later incorporate onto a DVD using iDVD.
The DVD probably won't be as concise or as polished as the DVD from our first Disney World vacation. That DVD was made with an earlier version of iDVD and without dual layer discs being available, so I was forced to edit more carefully.
Still, I'm glad to get this one done so I can eventually (later this summer?) work on our third vacation DVD. Unfortunately, I have about 9 hours of footage from that vacation. This process should make me more careful in what video footage I choose to shoot in the future.
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While working on the video late last night, I went out to the family room on my way to the kitchen for a drink, when I noticed Bessie sitting on "my" chair. I don't usually allow her on the chair, but she looked so comfortable and happy that I ended up taking over 20 photos of her.
-----
Now that William is 5 years old, we don't make him take naps on weekends, though we do require that nap time be replaced by quiet time if he chooses not to nap. No TV (which I'm trying to limit anyway), no computer or video games, no exciting toys. Just quiet resting, maybe reading a book or working on an activity book. Saturday afternoon, I set William the task of reading some Dick and Jane stories and an Easy To Read book of Disney stories. When James woke up from his nap, he came into my office with another book, saw William reading, and started imitating his older brother.
James also took a back seat to watch his brother play with a computer.
Posted: Sun - April 29, 2007 at 04:45 AM