I have been very busy while being unemployed. I have started to digitize all our old family movies. while this might seem a simple task, as i thought it would be at first, i have come to discover that when you have 20+ tapes with 5+ hours of footage on each, it is a lot to wade through.(pss: don’t ever use EP mode when recording.) I would say that i am close to half way done and have digitized 250 gigs of home movies. (that is a lot for those of you who don’t know.) these all come from VHS tapes so they all have to be done manually, which means i have to watch all the segment and then capture it in real time to the computer. Unlike the digital tapes and recording devices we have now where you can tell the computer to capture every thing from this point to that point and it will do it automatically. It has been a slow, but fun process.

Here is a small (and possibly embarrassing) sample:

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