Friday, March 03, 2006
Current mood: hopeful

This is the big whammy season for me every year. My CFS combines with seasonal allergies and I spend lots of time in a mental daze or sleeping. So I’ve been a little depressed lately. However there have also been cool things happening so it’s almost like being a teenager again — one minute I’m tired and depressed and then a few minutes later I’m all excited, then I wear out and I’m depressed again, then I get a nap and wake up all energetic and ready to enjoy work…. LOL!

Money issues are hanging over me right now but this week things happened that really gave me hope. For instance Jon showed up at work with 5 count them 5 new videos that he has created! I was like wow where did all this come from? Apparently they got backlogged because Jon’s person who “authors” DVDs (captures the videotape, makes the digital files, assembles the DVD menus etc) had gotten way behind.

We found a new DVD author and Jon sent him these 5 videos this week. Last night the author was emailing me every few minutes with his progress. It was so efficient! He designed the main menu and emailed me a screen-capture of it. I emailed back that it looked good and no typos, so then he generated a mini video clip of it and sent me that so I could see the animation. I wrote back that it was good. Then he emailed me the sub-menus. And on like that. By the time I went to bed after midnight it was clear this DVD would be done by today — wow! And I got to check all the work online — that’s great because usually one has to wait until receiving the DVD master to find out whether there are any mistakes or hideous design flaws. LOL.

I’m really eager to see this first DVD that’s being finished. When the author sent me the animated menu, there was a sample clip of Alexis Taylor jumping up from a chair and hopping across the room tied up. It looks really cute so I want to see that on a full-size screen. I guess I will soon! Whee!