In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Wow...
Most times things never go smoothly... That's just life.
I've been getting really good at synchronizing things happening on video along with different audio, particularly music. I just seem to have a real knack for it, and it's something I enjoy doing.
In this particular instance I had about 35 minutes worth of video that I needed to use only about 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
And Here I was plugging away at the beginning, not even having had watched the full 35 minute video to see how the thing ended (meaning I had no idea how my own video ended either), and I was doing my usual perfectionist stuff. Move it this way, move it that way. Test and retest again until you get it right. It's almost like tuning a guitar string, in a way.
Hopping through the video after I got one segment perfect to see what else was available and what I could cut before I moved on.
And then something magical happened...
The last maybe 2 minutes were just PERFECT as is. I didn't have to change a thing and everything just worked right up until the end. Nothing like this has ever happened to me working on videos like this.
I figured I had at least 3 hours left before I finished that step and I'm already done.
More steps to do, but that probably was the longest one overall. Unfortunately, when my computer took a crap, all of my templates I had made were not saved along with them. I may have them in my backups... I'm hoping I do, or in order to start the next step I'm going to have to re-teach myself a few things I've already forgotten first.
ETA: Oh man...
And going back and watching the first draft video, it's a wrap. There happen to be two very amusing coincidences between the words being spoken and what's happening on the screen at the time they're said, I couldn't have planned it better.
If I go viral, I'll send you a postcard from whatever place I settle in that isn't cold and dead half the year around. 
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow.. That's some long hair, Brenda.
Me and the old man just gave each other haircuts a few hours ago.
Got my errands for the day done and I'm done. Was up until almost 5AM working and cleaning last night. Not doing anything for the rest of the day.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, it is. I've gotten into the habit of letting it go until I can sit on it then lop of a inch or so along with the tie that is in it and now is the time. But I need some different ties. Will head into the dollar store.
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Out in a minute on a bright sunny day. Need a jar of coffee and a couple of other small things.
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All done for today and the best thing about it is I found "Killers of the Flower Moon" in at the library. YAY!!!! I shall enjoy that. 
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow.. That's some long hair, Brenda.
Me and the old man just gave each other haircuts a few hours ago.
Got my errands for the day done and I'm done. Was up until almost 5AM working and cleaning last night. Not doing anything for the rest of the day.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, it is. I've gotten into the habit of letting it go until I can sit on it then lop of a inch or so along with the tie that is in it and now is the time. But I need some different ties. Will head into the dollar store.
That's funny you mention that. During the movie shelter, there's a part where the girl puts her hair up with a rubber band. And I said "OW" and my dad's like "what?". I said I've had long hair quite a few times and you NEVER tie it up with a rubber band because it gets all twisted with the hair and you'll be pulling some strands out.
You ever try that?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Got most of my old tech down from the basement today and staged near the future work area for that stuff that I put together in the small bedroom. I'm not going to look at any of that stuff as things that need to be done immediately or with any rush. Since the area is clean, and there's a couch and coffee table to work on over there, I'm just going to leave all the stuff I need to work on in the boxes stacked on the side behind the door and out of site from the hallway for now. That sounds to me like a winter project and/or something to be doing in between downtime when I start working again. No reason to be wasting summer and fall on any of that as long as it's all staged and I know what needs to be gone through.
I think after I get all that tech down, I'll sort of look through what's still up there and pre-sort it, and I'll work on all those clothes and other things already down in the small bedroom before I take anything else down to sort through.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Everything done for today and one of these days I have to trim my hair. It is at the point where I can sit on it.
That IS long hair! Lucky you!
And along those lines SIX, I just gave hubby a haircut and beard trim. Long overdue. He was beginning to look like a mountain man!
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More brutally hot weather by us right now. Between that, the storms and the amount of rain, this is by far the worst summer I can remember in at least a decade around here.
98 was the high today, with the low only dipping to 73 tonight. 95 tomorrow with a 75 degree low. High of 92 on Thursday and finally back into the low 80's on Friday, although the lows at night never seem to go below 70 until Monday night next week. And because of all of that rain, it feels like the air is pushing back against you when you move outside. It's like a Georgia summer here.
Gross.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow.. That's some long hair, Brenda.
Me and the old man just gave each other haircuts a few hours ago.
Got my errands for the day done and I'm done. Was up until almost 5AM working and cleaning last night. Not doing anything for the rest of the day.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, it is. I've gotten into the habit of letting it go until I can sit on it then lop of a inch or so along with the tie that is in it and now is the time. But I need some different ties. Will head into the dollar store.
That's funny you mention that. During the movie shelter, there's a part where the girl puts her hair up with a rubber band. And I said "OW" and my dad's like "what?". I said I've had long hair quite a few times and you NEVER tie it up with a rubber band because it gets all twisted with the hair and you'll be pulling some strands out.
You ever try that?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
Yeah, I've done that few times when I was younger and yeah ow! for sure.
But even with the cloth covered ones that they put out today your hair can still get caught in them and again, ow! The reason being there is that there is still elastic under the material.
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I got a little bit cleaned up in the basement. Not really cleaned, but everything that was in my way was moved in the back room where it all needs to be sorted through and cleaned up. That way I could get my horses back into position above the plastic sheet I have protecting the floor from any paint drips. That all had to be pulled up and on the horses a while back because of the water, but it's all good. No mold or garbage or anything. Nice.
Had to get my 4'x4' sheet of wood off 2 of them too. I was using that to paint the cabinets and doors and such, and it's just in the way when I need to paint bi-fold doors, so that's safely out of the finished room and resting on some studs in the other room. Should probably think about getting all of that just out of the house for now just in case we still have any flooding this year.
I still had to take the hinges and screws off one of the doors since I forgot to do that outside, so I've got some crap to clean off the wood that was beneath them before I can start priming. No big deal.
I have to decide if I'm going to give the hinges for the other 3 bi-fold doors on the 2nd floor closets that I'd already finished years ago. The hinges look like crap on those. They were all chrome and since I never removed them with painting, they've got paint on them too. You can't really tell since I don't have walk-in closets. You never see 90% of the hinges because you'd never be inside the closet with the doors closed, and it would be dark even if you did. The only thing you see is just the rounded parts in between both segments of the door when you open them.
I'd hate to leave them like that, but really that's so much extra work for almost no payoff other than scratching an OCD itch.
I'll be taking the door down from the small linen closet across from the bathroom, since that's going to match the other solid door I'm working on now that will go in the small bedroom closet, and the lone bi-fold with louvers that I'm going to be working on now will replace that on the linen closet. So I will do the hinges on that if I don't think I'll screw the paint job up by doing it after the fact. Maybe I'll see how that goes before I decide if I want to go to the trouble for the master bedroom hinges.
It's a good time to be doing all of this, because that spray paint has been waiting for me for a while now. It seems to still work fine, but I don't want to let them sit around unused forever and go bad on me. A LOT of it is some off brand primer and paint I got for free after rebate years ago. It's great stuff that I've made good use of so far, but I really need to make sure I get the main things I wanted to do with it done. That's the 6 circular ceiling vents for the furnace, the 2 large rectangular wall vents for the 2 basement rooms, and the cover and door of my electrical box which is going to be painted white instead of grey to match the trim in my house. I've got to trim out the wall all around the electrical box and the network box anyhow, so I think it will blend in nicely.
I doubt very much I'll actually start doing any of that painting tonight, but who knows? I slept most of the day away getting some catch up sleep I obviously needed in the heat, so maybe I'll get to it after all.
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