Howdy!

   Wow! Almost a year since I left a post? Sorry. Nothing been happening much. I'm using a PC I bought back in 2001. It an ASUS, so it's a reliable 'ol dog. The one hard drive that has Win 98 on it was last formatted in 1999! This one has XP on it. It's a 2.2gHz with 512 megs of ram, so it's OK, but getting outdated with these dual and quad core CPUs.

   Turkey's in the oven since last night, simmering at 195° in a cooking bag with an onion and it smells ggoooddd!!

   Oh yea. The 'ol Sony DSC-F707 is broken for good (bad) so I bought a Canon HF-21. This is really a HD camcorder that takes pictures too. It's only 3.8 megapixel but I think takes sharper pictures than the Sony's 5! I did get over 8 thousand pictures on the Sony, though. Funny thing, the Sony came with a 16 meg mem stick. I later bought a 64 meg stick. This was the largest at the time, in 2002. This Canon has a 64 gig flash drive! That means it could hold will over 10,000 pictures! The HD movies eat the memory, though, but still, I'm good for about 24 hours of video. I'll have to put some on here. Check my Tube. Just click 'tube' to the left.

   I finally upgraded the system on the Mac from 10.3.9 to 10.5.8. I think that's as high as I can go with this G5. But now, I can use the Mac to convert the Canon's video from MTS to MOV. Then, I can edit movies like I do with the older movie camera and make movies that anyone with an ordinary DVD player can play. I guess the old NTSC stuff is going to be around for quite a few years, yet.

   The Jeep's doing OK. I had changed the rear springs, bushings, all those bolts, and the exhaust. It sounds and feels nice! Stickers are peeling off the motorcycle. I need to buff it up anyway.

Hydro