But all I could catch was this spider..
Will be back over the weekend..
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Tantrums 101
Had promised a video of combo #1 earlier..(a special tantrum thrown by baby at random).
This is not that video. This is combo #2.
Let me explain.
The little one did not cooperate with Mommy during her nail cutting attempts.
She(the little one), was smart enough to follow mommy, find out the secret hiding place where the nailclipper was kept, and got them, just as mommy went on to do other things over a busy weekend.
Feeling something along the lines of the crow that stole the Vadai from the old grandma (TOYWAP, this is from the Tamizh equivalent to Aesop's fables!), she was perched on the couch attempting to cut her own knees, fingers, feet or anything that was close enough to her nails, when she spotted "Secret Video Daddy"!
SVD, feeling the same thing a National geographic photographer feels when he is about to videotape a poor Gazelle just when it is being ambushed by a lioness, was in two minds. Do I continue the video? or do I stop and go pull those clippers out of her hands before she injures herself! SVD decided to do both, at the cost of the video not being secret anymore and the possibility of incurring mommy's wrath on being irresponsible and proving it to the world on video! He kept rolling the tape and tried to use
1. sweet talk
2. scolding
3. threats
and when all failed, resorted to calling in the marines, a.k.a. Jr., who has a strange hold on her little sister. Sometimes, Jr. is able to get things out of the little one's hands when the adults have failed. Last week she got daddy's tea glass from the baby, just when she was going to drop it on the concrete in the backyard, looked at the adults and said "see, that was easy. all you have to do is ask nicely!". If you read carefully, I said "sometimes". Today was not Jr.'s day. She pulled out the clippers on the pretext of asking nicely and the little one promptly went on to combo #1...
SVD does not think the world is ready to see Combo #1! That will have to wait.
SVD also thinks he has no chance of controlling these girls by the time they become teenagers. He is wondering if he will be alive to see them reach their teens at this rate!
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Videoblogging..
After searching high and low, finally found the SONY Imagemixer install CD this weekend!
That means, I get to videoblog again. So downloaded some clips from the old(?! I guess a 2003 DV camcorder is OLD) camcorder from the recent trip. Found out soon enough that the sound was not being recorded. Then remembered having the same problem 4 years ago, fixed it and now after some rush editing, you have
The quality is actually better than what the old Canon S30 was dishing out during its last days.
Now that I can take secret videos again, I am thrilled..
I was reminescing about my first video blog, which happened to be my 100th post! It took me forever to do that videoblog, in days before Youtube. Had to sign up for many accounts, create your own image for the file, link it to windows media player, etc., but it still worked!
We get so used to these improvements that anything old school (which may be just 4 years or even 2 years old) seems arcane!
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