It’s always a little odd editing video for something you know you attended but can’t remember. It’s me in this video, gettin’ baptized an’ all, but I was way too little to remember it. Very weird cognitive dissonance thinking it’s some other little scamp all grumpy and crying in the font, though I recognize her as me.

I got a lot of nice words from family about the last video I uploaded. I think we all loved seeing so much happiness in such a beautiful moment in life in that last one. It was great seeing Yiayia knitting and her and Pappou smiling with the grandbabies, back in the Juniper Street house no less. I have at least one more film reel converted to VHS already on my computer that I can upload soon, I hope to get to that upon my return from a business trip this week. And I think I may be running up against the end of film reels on VHS that my parents have at hand. (It may be time to start asking around other family members for theirs, if they’d like to contribute…)

On less happy news, it seems the key piece of hardware that I’ve been using to convert VHS tapes to digital has gone all primadonna and refuses to work. I have no idea why. I’ve had it about a year now and have used it maybe half a dozen times in total. I’m a little afraid to think that it might already have bit the dust after such little use, but all other measures I’ve taken to troubleshoot it are pointing to that conclusion. As it’s not a cheap device to replace, I really hope I can get it running again, though I’m mainly just annoyed that something I’ve barely used has already started getting very temperamental. 🙁 I’ve done nothing to change my set up or anything, so this is completely out of the blue and very, very aggravating.