The Mov Battle

Saying for the day: At any given time whatever it is you need you won't have. One of Murphy's laws

I have a new computer and a new camera. My new camera makes little movies. So last Sunday I took a movie of the Church Choir. I was going to put it on the Church web page.
My new computer reads memory cards so I can quickly download from my camera to the computer. So I downloaded my new movie.

Then I went to play it. That was problem number one. The computer said it didn’t recognize *.mov and couldn’t play it. Well my old computer could. My old computer didn’t even have Vista and it could play *mov movies.

So I had to go out to the web and find a program to play them. That took a little while because I also wanted it to be free.

Finally I found a form of Quicktime that could do the job.

So now I could play the movie. But now I needed to upload it to U-tube. Of course I couldn’t remember my password which I didn’t need on the old computer as it was locked in. So I told my computer I forgot the password. U-tube was going to send me an e-mail so I could reset the password. The only problem is that the e-mail address I used when I set up the u-tube account is not the e-mail address I have now. So that didn’t work. So I went back to the old computer and tried to change the address. The only problem is that the last step in the change was to enter your password. If I new the password I wouldn’t need to change the address. So I was back to square one.

There are only about six basic passwords I use with some variations. So I began typing them in one by one. On the sixth try I hit. Now I know my password. So I go to upload the file only to discover it exceeds u-tubes size limits. But that’s ok because I have a program to edit movies. I go to load the movie in and discover it doesn’t work with *.movs . I need to convert the mov to a wmf or an avi or even an. Mpeg. I , of course don’t have a program for that.

And that’s where it stands at the moment. But it isn’t over yet. I will fight on. The computer and the camera can not win. I will keep you informed.

####News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal. Well Petrovich finally posted his driblet. It looks like it could apply to the snowmobile weekend.

Driblet 132

I dreamed again that I was in the city of the birds.

Strange things moved across the snow.

At first I thought they were animals but then people got out of them. But then as I watched I saw they were riding on them and not in them. They seemed to race them over the snow. Never have I seen such races.

Then people were crying. He is dead. He is dead.

Who is dead? I ask.

He is dead. They say again.

It is so hot.

I am sweating.

There is a man with no clothes. He falls. He bleads.

It is so hot.

People try to get to him but can not.

They break the door and then more screaming. He is dead! He is dead!

A tall formal looking man comes and seems to be in control.

It is so hot.
My head hurts. I awaken.

Eino says to ignore it. Driblets can’t tell the future.

The poor Ghost Hunters have all this equipment and no ghosts and no poltergeist. Nancy came back on the train last night. They hope that with her back in the shop the poltergeist will show up. Only time will tell.

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Today's link-My Utopia- Some thoughts about Grandma.
It was a good day. Oxygen in low normal. I spent the morning fighting with the mov file. After luch we went grocery shopping. It was good to hget out of the house. The rest of the afternoon I spent reading. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA