The Real Life of a Geeky Tai-Tai

I made a video of my new foster puppy, Sam, playing with Clyde and Hunter.  This little guy is beautiful and has stolen my heart.  Hunter would like him to find his forever home today!  It won’t happen that quickly.  We have to go to the vet’s this afternoon for a well-check and to get a microchip.  If he gets the all-clear from the vet, then we will start reviewing adoption applications. 

I used iMovie 08 to edit this video. Let me just tell you, that it’s a pain in the butt! My blogging friend, Marty, has recommended that I use iMovie 06. I’m going to download it later today since it’s free. I like free stuff.  

I just wanted to let y’all know that I’m alive and well, just a bit harried by computer woes over the last couple of weeks, broken glasses, and some other unfinished business.

My five-year old Toshiba laptop decided to crap out on me.  It’d been acting strangely the last couple of months, but then the last week it would shut down each time I tried to connect any USB device or even just touch it.  Fortunately, I had sense enough to back-up my hard-drive before she gave up the ghost.

I know you’ve all heard this before, but it really is important it to back-up all of your data on a regular basis.  It’s not as difficult as it used to be in the days of floppy-disks and CD-ROMs, or the real floppy disks!  I also use Norton’s online back-up for my Quicken files and Flickr for my photos.  By the way, Flickr is free (now owned by Yahoo), but I upgraded to a Pro account so that I could create sets and collections.  

When I was shopping for my new laptop Saturday, I saw 4GB flash-drives for $13 and 500GB USB mass-storage devices for $80.  I realize that we’re in tough economic times, but do you really want to risk losing all of your data because your computer decides to do the nasty and crap all over you?  Back-um-up, baby, back-um-up!

In other news…

My nephew, Eric, has started a blog, “Eric’s Blog: a look at life through color-blind eyes…”, and plans to attend TequilaCon ‘09 in Sante Fe, NM April 25!  Please head on over there and welcome him to the blogosphere because I know you’re gonna love him — because he’s way-hotter than Tom Cruise, has a brain that Tom Cruise could only wish for, and he’s funny as hell! 

Another of my nephews, Andrew, has also started a blog, “The Wayward Hoover”.  He won’t be attending TequilaCon since he’s busy living on the other side of the world in New Zealand.  Of course, he’s handsome, talented, and very funny too because, well, these are genetic traits that run in the family!