And here it be, Gentle Reader... Your very own personally guided tour around a limited portion of Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park during one of our prototypical Spring maelstroms (see the post immediately below). Best viewed in HD... if the option appears and your connection speed supports that sort of thing. Even better: full screen.
So... it took six minutes and 18 seconds to shoot the video, about three minutes to transfer it to the computer, and just slightly over TWO AND A HALF freakin' hours to upload and "process" at YouTube. But I'm being hypercritical, nu? The simple fact we're ABLE do this sort of thing is amazing in and of itself, regardless of the time it takes.
I (heart) technology... even if it makes me look somewhat inept and wholly vacuous at times.
Update, 1745 hrs: Just noticed this at YouTube: "This video is still being processed. Video quality may improve once processing is complete." I was wondering why there wasn't an HD viewing option. Now I know...
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Not to angry, and sometimes on the technical aspects of the problem, can only rely on managers to deal with web. Happy weekend. Good luck. :)
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ReplyDeleteFun visiting with you outside in the wind there, Buck. A cuppa coffee would have been nice if the wind weren't blowing the dust around.
Cute kitty, too!
Skywind - great visitor name for this post.
I tried to watch it last evening...too early - still processing??
ReplyDeleteThis morning it was fine in HD, full screen. WOW, that little Mino does great! Focus and sound - I was surprised your voice was so clear even with all of the wind.
Wind and dust - incredible. Hope the cherry blossoms survive - such a pretty tree!
Forgot...don't want to spoil things for others but the surprise visitor - And you went with the flow admirably!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sky wind.
ReplyDeleteBec: Coffee... or any beverage... would NOT have been a good idea yesterday, outdoors. That cat surprised me... I was looking at the screen on the Mino rather intently and all of a sudden there it was! It belongs to my neighbor and is quite gregarious.
Ann; I'm impressed with the Mino, as well. True HD quality, adequate sound, relatively inexpensive, and all in a VERY small package. Now if I could just learn how to steady the thing... ;-)
Ah... we were doing that simultaneous comment thing, Ann!
ReplyDeleteMakes me think of "Trouble in the Fields" by Nanci Griffith, performed here by Maura O'Connell.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l87JpWkbI0
The line about "our children live in the city" reminded me (topically, not thematically) of the recent post about yours.
Dang, Phil... thanks for that link! I've never heard the woman before and she's GOOD. It doesn't hurt that she's got some great dobro accompaniment, either... my favorite instrument. I dunno if you were on about the "we'll work it out" sentiment, but that was my take-away.
ReplyDeleteThanks again.
The wind has been howling here too, but today has been nice. I have jeans on the clothesline and they are calm. I don't miss the West Texas wind and days when you could not see across the street due to the dust - trying to get across the campus at TT when you could not even see the buildings.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the intro to Maura O. I have always been a fan of Nanci Griffith.
We were quite a bit calmer today, as well, but a LOT cooler. I did sit outside with a beer and a cigar but it wasn't all that comfortable. I finished Happy Hour indoors, as a matter of fact.
ReplyDeleteGuess I shouldn't complain about the little blow we had here yesterday. Quite tame in comparison.
ReplyDeleteI detest the wind. I occasionally get the mad idea that I'd like to move to Eastern Washington, but after any given stay over there, I change my mind to the unceasing air currents.
I'm glad folks like the song and singers. This is the first Nanci Griffith song I ever noticed -- hearing the line about "if we sell that old John Deere and work these crops with sweat and tears" while driving into my parking lot in ~1990, I was just floored. No internet then so it took a long while to figure out who the song and singer were.
ReplyDeleteAs for which part of the sentiment catches me or is worth pointing along, I think it's "any of it that means something to you". That's another thing I like about the song -- I wrestle with the parts, as the characters wrestle with their own lives and their heritage. And with -change-.
Regarding the wind, this blog (and Buck's comments) and the previous are reminding me that the wind is serious business, and that it really can make people crazy.
When I read the earlier blog's weather forecast, "76, light clouds, windy" I thought, "is he kidding? 76 sounds lovely." But I don't live in a place where the wind can be trouble. Now I remember the stories I've read elsewhere in real life and fiction.
A kind of torture if it goes long enough and hard enough.
My own body and mind are sensitive to external stimuli, so I sleep with earplugs in and a dark shirt over my head to keep the light out (and the warm in). I wouldn't do well on the frontier.
Buckskins sez: I detest the wind.
ReplyDeleteYou'd HATE P-Ville, then. There's more wind here, more often, than any place I've ever lived. One never really gets used to it, either.
Phil sez: A kind of torture if it goes long enough and hard enough.
My own body and mind are sensitive to external stimuli, so I sleep with earplugs in and a dark shirt over my head to keep the light out (and the warm in). I wouldn't do well on the frontier.
You've hit the nail on the head with that torture comment... that's as true as it gets. Add in dust and it really gets oppressive at times.
re: the dark shirt over your head. I sleep with a ballcap pulled down over my eyes (it stays on all night, too. Don't ask me how.). I got into the habit when I began staying in RV parks years ago, as there always seems to be a lot of ambient light at night in these places. It's been nearly ten years now...