One little update that I have to tell you that most of you will know already because there are two big bucket mouth bloggers among us. And no pointing fingers at me because I am not one of them LOL *me crosses his fingers behind his back and hopes everyone buys that line of BS. Anyhow, I lost all of my photos that I took from my arrival in Seattle through Monday. Don’t ever buy a Cruzer Flash Drive from Scan Disk. They are crappy. This one just burned out. I’ve sent it to a place in Wisconsin to see if they can retrieve the pictures at a cost of $200.00. And if that way doesn’t work they can charge me $800.00 to get them. I’ve decided they are worth $200.00 but not $800.00. So I’m hopeful. We shall see soon I hope. But I have uploaded the pictures that I took after that to My Flickr Account. I’m debating right now as to how long I’m going to stay with Flickr because I have the use of my MobileMe Gallery that I like but there is no place to leave comments. And that doesn’t bother me at all because I get very few comments on my photos I post in Flickr so who cares actually. I’m not to worried about that because the photos I want people to see are always posted here on this blog. So you can check out my MobileMe Gallery if you want.

Now I know I said I wouldn’t be back this week and I’m not going to be much. But I wanted to get something out about the trip and the following two videos that I took with my camera while on vacation gave me something interesting to try. Trust me, I’m not good at doing videos either. Getting in focus is hard to do for me and doing video is no exception to that rule. And in the second video you will see where the color went to black and white, and I don’t know what button I pushed wrong, but it gives the video some spice if you ask me. Anyway I used my iMovie for the first time so don’t expect Academy Award material. But I had a good time putting them together. The first one is of the Eagles that Quilly and Susan have posted about and the second one is about the Locks in Seattle. They are both posted on my YouTube account as well as my MobileMe Gallery that you can get the link by clicking above, so I’m just going to copy and paste the description from there here. Less typing for me. WOOT!!! I hope you enjoy and I’ll be back hopefully next week Monday full time.

Eagles: “Well here’s my first video I have ever done. I know the filming isn’t the best but at least you get the idea about the eagles. They were an awesome site to see. This was taken on San Juan Island, Washington. The eagles were just fed by the sheriff is what someone told us so they basically come out of the woodwork. Whatever gets them out was cool by me because this was some site to see. Ooops it’s not the first? video. I have a couple of others in here.”

Locks: “This is the only other video I did while on vacation. It’s the locks in Seattle. Lake Union is higher than Puget Sound and is fresh water. So when the boats, including tour boats, want to go through, they have to raise and lower the water to get them to the appropriate height. It’s pretty cool to watch and see how it works. I don’t know what I did to get the black and white on the last portion of the video but oh well you will get the drift, if you pardon the pun. The big bridge in the last portion, two sail boats had to wait when they got out of the locks to pass through until the raised the bridge and a train was just going through. It was a cool site the whole thing to see.”

Hey, it’s only my opinion.

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