A 'Day' in my life.

Someone suggested why not make a video about a day in your life?

I was dubious and thought it would be egotistical, but I was assured it would be watched. So I did it.

[I note you tube analytics shows an average of 35 people have watched my prior videos. Many just watched part of them and only a few watched the videos in entirety.]

I selected two 'simple' projects that need doing and decided I would make a one day video of me doing them. LoL, here it is day 4 and the second roject is only half done.

My camera is a pocket digital. It saves video in a large avi file. Very large for some reason. A ten minute video saved in avi format is over a gigabyte in size. Shouldn't be, but it is. Firmware in the camera, nothing I can do about that. So I convert each day's shoot to wmv format which shrinks it all down enormously making it practical to upload them to youtube.

A problem I hit is each day's video shoot requires about 6 hours of PC run time to convert the images to wmv format and edited down to 10 or 20 minutes each. That's with Windows Movie Maker (WMM).

Don't get me wrong. WMM does a good job (and it was free), but wow, it is slow to load the avi files and even slower to convert them once told to.

So anyway, somewhere, in each of the 3 days is 5 or 6 hours of time spent converting and editing 5 or 6 avi files into one wmv file suitable for upload.

A second nuisance I hit was since I had selected two back yard projects, I was rewarded with hours of rain at times I wanted to shoot the video. Yes, the camera is waterproof. However, my tools aren't and I am not sure I am either, so no video was filmed during rain showers. Therefore I have had hours of rain each day with nothing happening while the rain falls.

Indeed, even now it is raining, which is annoying, not only because I think I need one more video to complete the series, but also because it is supposed to go over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) once the rain stops. I would much rather be sitting under the air conditioner then.

Also somewhere in there I had two medical appointments and also a visiting Nurse decide to pop in. Those also disrupted filming.

I was hoping for some feedback from someone I shared them with, but silence.

So anyway, with some nervousness and trepidation, here is 'a day' in my life. Hopefully {perhaps) others will do this too.

The First Morning





Waiting for my Nurse





Repairing a truck tire





Attacking the mowers (day 2)





Attacking the trees





I hope it is not all too boring. One more to make I think to finish project 2 and 'the day.'