We awoke this morning to steadily falling snow - about an inch accumulation - and thunder: a phenomenon appropriately termed thundersnow. 
Yesterday morning's Weather.com winter storm prognostications convinced us to change our plans to spend the entire week-end with our daughter in North Carolina. We drove home a day early, not wanting to drive in snow/sleet. Though the decision translated our already brief visit into a less than 22 hour one, we were able to attend her spellbinding MFA thesis reading of Us and the Wondrous Secret. We also met the program members of her writing community, so the visit was delightful in every way. Also, on the upside, the shorter North Carolina visit afforded us a surprise Atlanta dinner with our son on the way home. I'm glad to be off the road, but am missing those babies.
Yesterday morning's Weather.com winter storm prognostications convinced us to change our plans to spend the entire week-end with our daughter in North Carolina. We drove home a day early, not wanting to drive in snow/sleet. Though the decision translated our already brief visit into a less than 22 hour one, we were able to attend her spellbinding MFA thesis reading of Us and the Wondrous Secret. We also met the program members of her writing community, so the visit was delightful in every way. Also, on the upside, the shorter North Carolina visit afforded us a surprise Atlanta dinner with our son on the way home. I'm glad to be off the road, but am missing those babies.I used the strange weather as an excuse to experiment with video on Blogger. Please pardon the poor resolution/unedited video. My good video camera is broken, and I used an OLD digital still camera in its place. I'm also having Windows Movie Maker woes with this computer (suspect that this has more to do with the amount of video I have stored on the four year old pc, rather than anything else).
I inserted this example just to see how Blogger handles video. I am also experimenting with converting files from mov to wmv format. Downloaded a free tool, Any Video Converter, from Download.com. Seems to have worked just fine. Note...I later deleted that video and uploaded another in mov format. Seems that Blogger likes that format just as well. However, because I expect to insert this video in PowerPoint for a language lesson tomorrow, I needed the wmv version.
I inserted this example just to see how Blogger handles video. I am also experimenting with converting files from mov to wmv format. Downloaded a free tool, Any Video Converter, from Download.com. Seems to have worked just fine. Note...I later deleted that video and uploaded another in mov format. Seems that Blogger likes that format just as well. However, because I expect to insert this video in PowerPoint for a language lesson tomorrow, I needed the wmv version.
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