As I took a hiatus from blogging I managed to pick up a copy of Adobe Premiere Elements and finish putting together the various footage Dave shot and edited the summer before we all left for college. It is now a feature full length movie: Summer 2001. It’s been added to the Video section and you can download a big Divx version or a smaller iPod friendly one. Premiere Elements was awesome to use and ran fine on my older laptop. I’d highly recommend it along with Photoshop Elements if you just need something that can do quick photo/video editing for personal stuff. The full Photoshop is great but usually overkill for touching up vacation photos and Premiere is way over my head.
Work
Not much new has happened in the last month. Work has been really busy and I keep working more and more hours. So last week I decided no more ridiculous overtime. I’ve kept to 40 hours this week (so long as I don’t stay late tomorrow) and it’s refreshing to have more free time at home. I started running again and becomming more active with Now Like Photographs. If you don’t already subscribe to our podcast, you really should. It’s a free song every week.
Poker Nights
I went to two power nights now with Jim from work. It’s been a good time since the buy-in pays for beer. I’m yet to win but I stay in for a bit. Going from playing it at drunk parties to people with actual chips that follow all the rules is much different.
Brookfield Trip
I’m shooting for a weekend in Brookfield sometime towards the end of September. Bri needs to pick up her new car which is getting repainted in Milwaukee(2000 BMW Z3) and I think I’ll take a Friday off to make a nice 3-day weekend out of it. I’m hoping some Chicago people may be available to come up for a day or two. I also started thinking that we should do a big get together once a year. It was awesome to see everyone for Kris’s wedding last fall and I wish I had something like that to look forward to this fall, and every fall for that matter. So maybe later in October/November we could get everyone together and meetup somewhere in the Midwest. I owe Brayshaw a trip to Indiana so that might be something to think about.
One one hand this is really embarassing. On the other hand we fucking ruled. The upshot of this getting on the internet is that none of us can ever be president, but that ship probably sailed long ago.
Thanks for posting that, Pfeiff-Ruffle!