Monday I had to go up and edit since I wasn’t there on Sunday and it ended up taking me over four hours. Why? I have NO idea! Simply put, after I output the tapes and watched them back, none of the mouths matched the audio. It was so weird. Some setting has to be wrong after our reformat but unfortunately, I don’t know what it is. I ended up having to create a DVD then copy that to the tapes. Ugh. Not something we want to do regularly, of course, so I’ve got to find a solution fast. Unfortunately, I don’t even know where to start looking or what terms to search.

And speaking of computers… my in-law’s computer started acting funny a few weeks ago and I thought it was Windows issues which I fixed. Then last week it just suddenly quit and won’t start up. It doesn’t even get to the point where it can send anything to the monitor or let the CD roms open, etc. An orange light, instead of green, is indicated on the front. Yet I can’t find any decent support for it. So what’s the first thing you would check if it was doing something like that? It’s obviously hardware at this point. Of course, I’m not too worried about it anymore – yesterday my father-in-law went ahead and ordered a new Dell, so… yeah. The computer is just like the one I bought in December to replace my 2004 Dell only their hard drive won’t be as big (I upgraded mine), they’ll be getting a 17″ monitor (I didn’t bother with that since I already had a 15″), they won’t have the card reader, and theirs is cheaper. :P However, I’ve been impressed with myself so far, I will have that computer paid off way before the interest kicks in at the end of the year. So much so that…

I am going to buy a new laptop. Sheila wants mine, haha. She’s starting college this fall, going to be moving in with her older sister and she would like a computer. Makes sense, of course, better than sitting around a computer lab all day. So this will help us both out – she’ll get a good-working laptop with all the programs she needs for college and free maintenance (ha) for cheaper than buying one new, of course, and I will have a good down payment on a replacement system for me. My problem is just that I can’t decide what model to get…

Yesterday I spent the day with some of my friends/neighbors. I had access to the professional video camera and we bought a microphone and went out and started shooting a video the girl wants to do. We didn’t get as far as we’d hoped, though, and it’s getting hot outside fast, so we might carry this over through fall. It’ll be fun though! Can’t wait to edit it. :)

Faith Jewelry Today I went up to another friend’s house to help her with her website. She’s running the same shopping cart I am and I was able to make minor changes here and there as we went along and she was learning how to put products in and customize them. The jewelry she sells is so customizable, there are many possible combinations, so we have to be a bit creative with the shopping cart. But if you’re interested in some cool jewelry, check out her site: 4wdesigns.com, her most popular items (as I understand it) are functioning in the cart at this point now.

Now I have to start working again on my cousin’s jewelry site. She’s not using a shopping cart, though, and I’ve written her a basic order form with HTML, PHP, and Javascript. It’s not ideal as we keep having to add new things and customizations to it and pretty soon, I keep telling her, she will need a shopping cart – but she’s just starting out and doesn’t want to/can’t put money into that right now, so this will do for the time being. Her website is: angelears.net. She makes these cute little angel earrings which is what she’s concentrating on with the website right now, but some other stuff too (that’s one of the things I have to work with tonight). Of course, you might recognize the site’s design. It was an open source design first then someone made it into a WordPress template, etc. I had seen it forever ago and saved it and when she told me how she wanted her site to look, etc., I knew it would be perfect, and, of course, she loved it. So I modified it for her use, of course

Of course, this is not to mention all the other things I have to do around here… gah! Craziness!