A Reprise

Handwriting Originally uploaded by ladyhildegarde . I wasn't kidding about the handwriting thing.

Mocha valencia Originally uploaded by ladyhildegarde . Guess where I am again: I couldn't stay cooped up in there all night. I have decided to make a serious effort to improve my handwriting. I want to buy a book on it, but I don't know what I should buy. A primer will be lined to write large, and I never quite made the conversion to ruled notepaper. My handwriting is awful. I tried to write up the log book in cursive and it's so outstandingly different from my usual pared-down print I'm ashamed. I really can't write in cursive, and I came to the realization today that if I am to learn, I've got to get serious. I'm not going to grow out of it. I long gave up on that.

The quality is bad, but it is playing, at least! God-- I am so stressed-- forgive me for talking of such shallow things lately. I have to: I can't speak of the real things now. Anyway, it is so magical watching Scarlett O'Hara flounce around in the palm of my hand. She pulled Suellen's hair and they made faces at each other right in the palm of my hand: I felt like I was holding a couple of little fairies. Now that I have seen this I see I'm going to have to get a lot of Victorian movies for my Treo. I love to see fancy girls on my little screen. I've got to get the Snow White DVD. I think recording from the Tivo further reduces quality. This should have looked better than Phantom and looks much worse. There's a lot of artifacts. But I think this has a lot of potential. My silent films may do better since it won't have to work as hard with black and white. I've noticed they fill up DVD's less than color movies. I hope, at least, I can get them to w...

. Drive home . Sleep well . Wake at 12, shower right away . Call Carol W. . Do light delicate load . Upload Phantom to Treo . Try out Lathe encoder . Finish A Raven . Put up Blanche . Sew green shirt . Brown jacket . Pink shirt . Encode The Scarlet Letter . Camille . Dark Shadows . Get MP3 headphones . Rip MP3's in smaller file size . Thanks for the Ether . Fallen . Immortal Beloved . Fly . Phantom of the Opera . Transcribe Hugh Worthington . Get 4 GB SD card

I am halfway there on my Treo expansion: I can record movies now with mMovie (http://www.motionapps.com/). I have not yet exported them to PC to really look at them but they look comparable to those from my first camera, or perhaps my second. Gah-- I can't believe I'm on my fourth camera, to think of it. I installed a DVD ripper which is probably not the best: FairUse, it takes 6 gigs per movie, and that's too much. I left it compressing my file: that also takes hours to do. There is another one I will seek: the name eludes me, but apparently it compresses as it rips, which might leave me with a 250 mb file on my hard drive instead of a 6 gb one to delete. I will see how Phantom of the Opera looks with FairUse first though. I am using TCPMP to play movies, free also, and it's perfect. I bought a SD card reader since I will need that to transfer the movie. Still not writing or anything, but I am starting to want to again. I also find I am terribly hungry, and I wonder if...

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