Odd Still Life

Can you tell — from how often I’ve posted — just how awful this month has been? Well, it has. The new carpet just got put in YESTERDAY. Almost one month after most of my house was flooded. Slow, much? I think so. But, that’s okay. I’m not complaining. . . much. Matter of fact, I won’t complain at all.

Moving on . . . I finally got a video up on youtube and it’s horrible. I’ve fixed it — a little bit — and am reposting it today, with sound even. (I did a voiceover thing explaining it. It’s terrible, but it’s better than it was. I finally figured out how to convert to mp4. Duh! I feel like such a lunk head. It was pretty simple, once I just sat down and looked at everything.)

No progress on the text game. I’m hopeless. I just can’t get a handle on what I want to express with the medium. I haven’t quit, yet, but I think I’m going to concentrate on the video thing for a little while. I might even start a video log. Probably not actual video of me, but something video-y (probably not anything approaching a real word, but . . . video-like is too longish so video-y will do).

Okay. Wait. I have got to complain about one thing. My new carpet (which someone else picked out) is light, lite, really, really light, beige. Almost white. Hmmm. I have a three year old kid. How long do you think this carpet will survive in its original state? Any guesses? A month? A week? A day? 12 hours? AAARGGH!

Well, it’s Friday. Most people are happy about that. I’m ambivalent. I’ll get some video stuff done today. The rest of the time I’m going to spend being slightly ill and horribly worried about the new carpet. (Won’t let myself get scotchguard stuff until after the first. It’s an extra expense we didn’t need. But it’ll be necessary.)

Sunday is Oscar night. I haven’t seen a new movie in almost a year. I don’t think I’ve even wanted to go to any of the nominated films. Maybe it’ll be fun just to sit here at my computer and watch and laugh, thinking of all the people out there who think Hollywood is so glamorous. (Hahahahah!) Some of the people are, some of the time. The place? No. Walk five blocks west or south of where the awards are held and the glamor completely disappears, as if by magic. Movie magic. Hey, kids, the streets of Hollywood are paved with the same crap any other small town five miles from one of the largest cities on Earth and ten miles from a seaside resort town is . . . . crap! Unless you really, really can act, or are really, really, really rich, STAY HOME. Enjoy the Oscars once a year with the rest of us and be grateful not to be in Hollywood.

Ehem! How I got off on that tangent I’ll never know. Anyway, happy Oscar weekend, if I don’t post again, have a good one.

Yes, I’ve been absent for a while. Yes, I am quite sorry. No, I do not want to talk about it. Why would I want to talk about the house getting flooded because of an impacted drain that took two sets of plumbers and over a week to fix? Why would I want to even mention the horrendous week I spend cramped into my mother’s tiny apartment with her complaining about every single thing I did? Why would I want to tell the whole world that we came back to the house while it was still not fixed, because my mother and her landlord said that my kid was making too much noise? Why? Because I have to get it all out or my head is going to explode!

Whew! Now I feel better. Carpet cleaners or replacers are supposed to come or call or something today, so I won’t have a long time to type (need to be off by 9:00). But let me see what I have to say about the world in general.

Hmmm?

Yeah! The Colts are Number One! (I’ve cheered for the Colts since I was two years old. Back when they were in a different city. Johnny Unitas. Enough said.)

I’m not sure Hillary will be our first female President, but it sure will be interesting (in a kind of soap opera way) to see what the Republicans can dig up on her over the next year. (Unless she actually murdered someone in cold blood I will vote for her if she gets the nomination.)

What is going on over at youtube? I’ve been on the site for the last hour and a half and the videos aren’t updating as fast as usual. ( I always check newest video footage and the last one was uploaded over an hour ago.) I have the feeling they’ve started checking the videos before letting them go up. (Yikes! Apparently not well enough.)

Also, the thing about the copyright infringement is . . . I used to tape stuff all the time (back in the ’80s and ’90s) for my mom and grandmom. Soap opera’s and stuff. Nighttime stuff when my mother had to work late. If I still had those old tapes ( and unfortunately I don’t) I could invite friends over to watch them on the old vhs. Couldn’t I? Or would that be illegal? To me, the internet is just a bunch of loosely connected buddy type acquaintances. If people want to share stuff they have,  that they acquired legally — say by taping it off their own tv set with their own vcr or dvd — I think that should be allowed. I feel the same about music, also. As long as I’m not charging anybody a fee or anything, why can’t I share music or video or whatever, with whoever I want to. Who has the right to tell me who is my friend and who isn’t? Hopefully, nobody.

(Pirating is another matter entirely. That has to do with illegally acquired media, though and not media that a person has bought or has legal access to and would like to share with the community — the world — at large.)

Okay. That’s enough. It’s almost 9:00. I’ve gotta go. ’Bye.