kim’s back!

JOY! is when an old friend finds you and sends you an e-mail! Especially when that friend is someone you’ve been searching for for YEARS and of whom there seem to be absolutely no traces on the internet, and you have absolutely no other way of finding them. It was GREAT to hear from Kim, especially now that I’ve been working steadily to finish this VHS-to-DVD conversion project. I’ve seen more of Kim on my computer screen in the past three months than I’ve seen of her in person in the past ten years.

And I *DID* finish the project, by the way! I got the project formatted with all the graphics and buttons and links and music, got one copy burned to DVD disc, watched it on TV, realized I’d screwed a bunch of stuff up, reworked about half of the movies and re-exported them, watched it again and found it completely acceptable, and this morning I finished burning all the copies to DVD discs (except that I have to run out and buy another box of DVDs because I will now be able to send a set to Kim).

I feel totally manic lately. I got so much done this weekend. Now if only I could stay like this all the time.

The Bad Art Party II was fun. I still think that the first party will always be the classic standard, but we all had a great time. I was quite sad that Bruce and Leslie didn’t make it, but they were sick. They had been out all morning in the cold, dressed as roller skating clowns in the Neiman Marcus children’s Christmas parade. I guess they just plumb tuckered themselves out. It’s too bad, too, because I had made a special bad-art gift just for Leslie. Rich took home the grand prize… and Leslie had promised that she was going to kick his ass and win. Well, she won at the last Bad Art Party. The prizes were better this year, though!

Now I have the huge worktable in my studio. I am so happy! I hope that we don’t miss it in the garage, but I don’t think that we were really using it for anything except as a surface to set junk on. I had planned to use it down there as a glass table, but I’m not doing glass anymore (gave all my supplies to Mom so I can focus on one less thing in my life) and now that it’s upstairs in my studio, I can use it as a sewing table/graphic art table. It was a real bitch to get it upstairs, even with the legs unbolted. I swear it must weigh 80 pounds.