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A Week with David 2

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Sunday morning my mother, brother and I headed out to a football college recruitment fair for high school seniors. My brother is graduating soon and we visited several tables of different college recruiters. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Basically we hit up a local Einstein’s Bros and I always find myself staring at these muffins because they look diseased to me–leprous even. Weird!

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Anyway we ate on the way to the recruitment fair and finally arrived. The place was totally packed out with high school football players and their families. My brother was pretty excited about the whole thing.

Now let’s hope that one of the school’s that are interested in him will get back to us soon. :)

me

Fast-forward two or so hours, and to where we went to Red Lobster. On the way in I hit to the bathroom, but before leaving I had to do a traditional myspace-like photo. Hey, you have to get one or two taken at some point in the year, right?

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Had a delicious lunch/dinner with the family at Red Lobster and those garlic cheese muffins are to die for. I died with each bite.

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Monday… Hard beginning. This picture is how I feel about Mondays because it was taken near the end of my day in Film Appreciation class some time around 8:00pm. In other words, a lot of Mondays I’d like to just fast-forward to the end of the day. And as I sit here and write this blog post, let me tell you that today was better than most Mondays, but still hard.

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This is part of poster that is basically plastered all over the Art Institute campus. I would love to attend this film festival, but I have to work that day. Arg! Being in a film appreciation class has further increased my love and interest in film. So if only I didn’t have to work. Shucks…

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Skip Tuesday, Wednesday and we arrive at Thursday where I am traveling to the mall to check out some stuff at Best Buy.

Basically, I’ve been searching for some for the following things:

  • 76-Key Keyboard or more
  • Good HD Camcorder Completed!
  • F.E.A.R. 2 for my brother. Scary game. Completed!



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So I arrived at Best Buy with one camcorder in mind. I did some in-depth research on the internet for a affordable HD camcorder with 24p frame rate feature. I came across the Canon HV20 and the Canon HF10. As you will soon see, I settled on the latter because it stores the video footage with digital flash memory (personal preference).




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Anyway later that same night I was craving some good Chinese. There is this place called Peking Tokyo that I love and just had to have my favorite, Szechuan Chicken. I die every time I order it for dinner.

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Anyhow, I hit up Target before finally making it home Thursday night. I enter and randomly pass the toy section when my eyes lock on the sudden sight of a shelf full of Domos. I died in happiness! Why? Well ever since I learned about these awesome critters (plush toy) I have wanted to collect them. I really don’t know why I like them, but I just do. I have one for Halloween–which I don’t really celebrate. I was hoping to find some Christmas holiday Domos, but alas no cigar, as it were.


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Behold, the Domooooooo!!! Mwaa-ha-hah-ah-ah-aaaaaah!! …and treats. :)

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Me want!

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So yeah, I spend the money and bought the HF10 and I’m very, very happy right now. Expect awesome videos from me in the very near future. I am putting in a number of hours for learning Final Cut Express 4 HD so that I can produce better videos. Not to mention, I am also writing content for four videos that I have planned, among which I began writing less than a year ago, however it was put on the back burner.

For now all I can tell you is to hang in there and stay synced! The videos are coming. Scouts honor. *holding up hand*

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Look at that, it’s the size of a can of Pepsi and slightly taller than my iPhone 3G… (Psst! I wanted a can of Coca Cola, but this is all that was in the kitchen. Don’t tell Pepsi I said this to you. K?)

Alright, ’til next week’s adventures in my life techtorial life.

Stay synced!

  • jnavarr
    I use my old DV for longer videos (vacations, etc). I've been using my Nikon point & shoot to take videos - good enough for the 1:30 upload limit on flickr. What I really want is to set up something like the short 2-3 minute video blogs like twitter-er @jrmozart has. Or something similar. I haven't fully thought it out yet. But then again, figuring it out as I go is half the fun!
  • jnavarr
    Nice update, with pics no less! I'm also looking to upgrade from my old DV camcorder but maybe to a Flip (or something for less $$). And I'm definitely getting a new Domo at Target tomorrow! Anyway, looking forward to more of your videos!
  • Why DV and not flash memory?
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