PiZZaZZ ShortZ! presents “Go Get The Paper.”
Some background on the film follows:
Go Get The Paper (The Video)
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Homecoming Weekend
It felt a little like homecoming weekend with Gramalie and Grandad returning to Tucker, Danny up for the weekend, and Nicole in for the day Saturday. And in a complex exchange, a hitch-hiking frog will travel from Florida to Georgia to Alabama.
Nicole, Kathy, and I went to watch Claire play soccer Saturday morning while Danny and Kelly slept in. Unfortunately Claire’s asthma kicked in early after several sprints up and down the field, so it was a short game for her.
Kathy and Nicole dressed up and headed out to cousin Andrew’s wedding shower. Danny and I converged over at Gramalie and Grandad’s with Ted to welcome them home and get their computing equipment updated. I brought the Flower Power iMac that Fionna passed down to Grandad. I had performed a brain transplant (hard disk) from the Blue iMac with a bad power supply. Ted brought over a memory upgrade for Mom’s laptop. And we all took a look at the HP desktop that Patsy sold them. It will be good to get Dad’s documents all migrated over to a “this century” computer. For example, he’ll go from a full 10 Gig hard disk to a spacious 250 Gig drive. He likes the “TV” on the HP, which is what he calls the flat panel monitor.
Ted copied all of the original FOPAB editions that he had scanned into PDFs onto Mom’s laptop. Dad spent some time opening those and reading them, which he thought was amazing.
I showed him the “history” files that I was loading into MediaWiki (like Wikipedia), and he read a few of those.
Saturday night, the six Stonegaters had a nice dinner together, and then played a round of Apples-To-Apples. Danny reported this was one of the more even rounds we had ever played, everyone getting a good share of wins. Once again I won overall (not sure why), so the group focused on who could come in second. Kelly took second place with much delight.
Nicole headed back home Saturday night, so she was unable to join us for a big breakfast at Killian Hall put on by the Knights of Columbus Sunday morning. We then headed over for church. We were asked to bring up the gifts… probably because we were all dressed up pretty nice, although I was out parking the car when we were selected. Beautiful sunny day and a fine homecoming weekend.
About the frog… Gramalie discovered a white tree frog hiding in a potted plant she brought up from Florida. Danny and I took the plant and frog home to figure out what to do with it. The frog had stayed crouched in the dirt all the way up from Florida to Tucker. But as soon as Danny stepped into our garage, he jumped out, through the VW’s open wheels, and climbed up to hide on the rear axle. Stout was very excited about all of this. Danny finally caught the frog. We put him in a plastic container, and Danny will take him down to Mobile where the weather is more Florida like. Gramalie has a picture of the frog. Perhaps she will post.
Miss America 2008 Video – A Hit
Kelly and Claire have about 20 different videos in various stages of production. They finished one up a couple of weekends ago and named it Miss America 2008. They asked me to upload it to YouTube. I do not necessarily recommend this video for adults… or future employers… but something funny happened.
I uploaded the video on Saturday night. I had to travel and left midday Sunday. I got an e-mail from Claire that their video had already been viewed 200 times and the count was climbing fast. (Many of their videos have only been viewed 30 or 40 times.) I just checked and, they have passed 2,500 views. It turns out that same Saturday night (none of us realized it) the Miss America 2008 pageant was broadcast. Guess what phrase has been getting searches on YouTube?
If you are a kid, tolerant adult, and not a future employer of my daughters, take a look: Miss America 2008. I do recommend Backwards Girl and the Cow Puzzle.
Send Out The Clowns
I don’t know where this poster came from. Maybe a garage sale. But this giant clown face hung in Nicole and Danny’s room at Hancock Circle (as I recall) and terrified Nicole. Not sure if he terrified Danny.
Over the holidays we put out a lot of stuff for some charity that called and arranged for a pick up. We normally do this for the Kidney Foundation. This was someone else. They called the night before to confirm the pick up, and I did not like the way the guy sounded.
After the pick up, Kathy went out and found the clown poster folded up and thrown into the storm drain. If you recall the movie version of Steven King’s IT (the evil clown would peek out of a storm drain) it makes this guy all the more scarier.
Cow Puzzle
From the creators of PiZZaZZ ShortZ films… a video puzzle created on the new family iMac featuring a famous cow painting under X-Ray. Turn up the sound…
Santa Spotted in Athens
This photo just came in over the wire. Santa was spotted in Athens trying to steer people into a nearby UPS. (Santa’s older sister got him a job over the holidays. She is even letting him stay in her house. Santa has a nice sister.)
Pink Sunglasses
Just before Kelly’s second “run of her life” she and Nicole posed for two photographs. It was a bright sunny day, so Nicole let Kelly wear her sunglasses for one of the shots.
Yes, it’s a composite. I’m getting good at Photoshop.
Little Man in Hat
Cleaning out the armoire to make room from the new iMac. Found this photo tucked away in an envelope. Scanned it and put it in iPhoto. Now safely stored on 3 different hard drives.
Apple Store Visit
The four of us went down to Lenox Mall to ride the pink pig, go to the food court, and visit the Apple store. I had a Schatzki incident which caused some delay and landed me back in the car for about 30 minutes. I insisted the girls ride on the pink pig, but it closed as they walked up to it. So two strikes for me: no food and no pig.
Claire and I had a nice visit to the Apple store where I decided to buy the new operating system, Leopard, and the new version of iLife ’08 which includes iMovie. I figured this was a pretty cheap way to get a new computer (upgrade our older one) and that the girls would enjoy YouTubing movies even more.
Taken by iMac with Built In Camera
Alas, the new version of iMovie does not support the older iMac. Processing movies is the most computing intensive thing we do, and the latest version needs the faster processors. Strike 3.
So what does one do with 3 strikes? Get a new Macintosh, of course!
All the Kids in the Nest
Danny called Wednesday morning with bad news. Instead of being underway home for Thanksgiving, he had just been in an accident. Looking to buy gas for the trip, he crossed under a bridge between two access roads. Trying to see the gas price just ahead, he did not see the red light. He entered the intersection as an SUV came from the left. Both drivers veered to avoid each other, but the back wheel well of the SUV grabbed the front bumper, ripped it off, and spun Danny to the right.
The SUV was going about 40 mph and fortunately Danny, having just turned from a previous red light was only going about 20 mph. Any faster, and Danny could have been broadsided on the drivers side. So for that we’re thankful.
After managing a police report, dealing with the insurance company, and getting the Jeep towed, Danny hopped on a Greyhound bus. Nicole came in from Athens later that evening, so all of the family piled into the van and drove down to the airport (also a busport) and picked Danny up about 11:30 pm.
As we turned in about 12:30 a.m., I said to Kathy, “It’s good to have all the kids back in the nest.”
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