I have a LiveJournal. I’ve had a LiveJournal for years, and I’m pretty active on it. I even run a few communities.

There is one community that has a pretty cool concept. What you do is show everyone a day in your life, with pictures. Basically, from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed, you document your entire day by taking photos.

It’s actually pretty cool.

So I did one yesterday, and I decided to make a photo slideshow so I can post it here. It’s pretty lame — I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of that stupid zoom-y thing. But eh.

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links:
[*] more about the “a day in my life” project
[*] like the music? It’s from Twenty Four Frames
[*] some of the photos from the photo shoot

It’s kind of nice not to have to do yardwork or have to fix up the outside of the building … but other than that … townhouses suck.

Especially when the guy next door decides to do some home improvement projects.

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As we do most Sundays, Justin and I went over to his parents’ house for dinner and to watch Deadwood (Six Feet Under when it’s “in season”). Since we had really nice weather today, we decided to eat outside.

During our meal we heard a bird nearby. Too nearby. To make a long story short, we discovered this little guy on the ground near the pool deck.

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So I walk into the bedroom to start getting ready for work. Nougat is sitting on the bed, staring up at something on the wall. I go over by her to try to figure out what she’s staring at (they like to stare at bugs).

Well. Just watch the video.

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After hitting up Great America we went geocaching with a few friends.

This was the first time for all of us, so we just hit two “one star” places nearby. It’s pretty fun; I’m actually half considering picking up a GPS unit and going more often.

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I apologize for the video quality in both videos; I was using my CoolPix and kept changing the settings around.

Also:
I’ve been compressing my videos as per this 3ivx tutorial. I’m getting like, insane file sizes. Just look how large this one is, for only about three minutes of video. Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong?

Today was pretty busy, at least for the first part of it.

We went over to Six Flags Great America to get our season passes. I have a Six Flags credit card and earn points for every dollar I charge. I finally built up enough points and got both me and Justin a free pass.

Of course, you can’t go to SFGAM without riding a few rides. It was nearly dead; the longest we had to wait was about 15 minutes.

We didn’t stay that long, less than two hours.

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[edit] It was brought to my attention that the ride I call the “Tilt-a-Whirl” in the video is actually the “Whirlygig.” Sorry. I just knew that it had the word “whirl” in it.

Oh, and sorry for the crappy audio editing on the first (Six Flags) video. I don’t do that good.

So today I decided to futz around with the video mode on my regular digital camera — a Nikon CoolPix 4500. Mostly just testing it out.

The first thing that I discovered that — while it will automatically flip photos when the lens is rotated backwards — it records video upside-down when pointing backwards. A bit annoying.

Then I discovered that it will only record for 35 seconds at a time. My cheap Aiptek will record continuously until the SD card runs out. Why can’t a $700 (at the time) camera do that?

So if I want to use it on a semi-regular basis, I’ll need to import a bunch of short videos into iMovie and stitch them together (not a problem), and if any of them are of my mug, I’ll first need to open each video in Quicktime and rotate it, then import it into iMovie.

Yar.

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Yes, I do know how to rotate video. I thought this might make things a tiny bit more interesting.

The whole purpose of the video is to show off my recent haircut.

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Last Saturday (April 30th) Justin, Mom and I went to the Chocolate Fest in Long Grove, IL. It was packed, and I didn’t eat as much chocolate as I would have liked.

Justin wielded the camera a bit, and of course mostly kept aiming it at me.

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