My aunt Ruth sent a bunch of wonderful slides for my parents’ anniversary, and I wanted to incorporate them into a movie. I needed a slide scanner, though, and didn’t have time to go buy one. In a quick internet search I found a diagram for making a low-tech slide scanner attachment out of paper. [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
The story about our fun hotel will have to wait a day so I can tell you how we came back to Nebraska with no suitcase. We were getting ready to check out of the room and I was slowly gathering things up. We stayed in a little suite-type room that had a living room [...]
Continue reading...25. August 2010
Late last week my adorable little laptop decided to die. I would turn it on and it would go through the motions, but right before I could log in it would shut off. This was frustrating because Lloyd has been so swamped with working on his school’s website, I didn’t want to trouble him to [...]
Continue reading...23. August 2010
When Lloyd and I were first married it was also our last year of college. We got to partake of the fantastic Married Student Food Program at Concordia, and it was a wonder. Basically it was a room filled with all the clearance stuff from supermarkets that didn’t sell, plus some basics from the government [...]
Continue reading...22. August 2010
So, I had one big project for this weekend – working on a video for my parents (shhh – don’t tell them) – but I kept getting sidetracked. The house is a wreck, and I had a few mini-projects spring up unexpectedly. The first was getting out my wedding dress. I read last year’s post [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2010
You know what’s a weird word? Mosquito. Look at it: mosquito Now in all caps: MOSQUITO Mohs-queeto.
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1. September 2010
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