My folks, brother, sister and me. (1978)

Here's a photo of my folks, brother, sister and me from 1978!

9 Year Anniversary

My wife and I have been married 9 years (and three days). We're going out to celebrate tonight.

I love you sweet wife!

2009 Family Video

The 2009 Family Video has been edited and an initial render has been prepared succesfully. I've been preparing the family videos as gifts for about 6 years now. I think I've finally figured out how to sidestep most of the big issues. For example, if I render the video as a DVD it will fail every time. The video is long enough and contains enough photos and transistions that it crashes. However, I can render the video as a single AVI without any difficulty. This single AVI will render as a DVD with no trouble, so I use as the basis for the final copy and add all the menus at the last minute.

This years video clocks in at 36 minutes. That's pretty close to what I've been hitting the past few years. I'm satisfied with it. Hopefully everyone will enjoy it.

My youngest son (6 years old) thanked me for working hard on the video. That really made my day.

Cool Leaves!

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/bio-diversity/