Need I say more?

I found a VERY useful utility the other day...  it's avidemux.  This utility will open virtually any video file and allow you to transcode it to virtually any other format (compression scheme, etc) of video file.  It opened quite a few that I couldn't in Premiere and ULead and allowed me to convert it into a format that is readable by those two programs.  You can read more about it here.

Over the past few months, Laura has been making snowmen creations for her mom.  Check here to see them a little closer.  They are created with polymer clay.  Quite frankly, it amazes me at amount of detail on each one.

I have seen this thing around town a good bit and finally caught it while it was not moving at interstate speeds.  I can't believe someone actually has to drive this for their job.  It looks like it was originally a Suzuki Grand Vitara (or something slightly smaller) with a few slight modifications and a paint job.  I think the brush guard on the front is a nice touch.  Just makes me wonder if this is more or less embarrasing than the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

 

Caught everyone enjoying the sunshine this afternoon.

From left to right:  Bill, Persey, Maggie, George, Petunia, and Bella.

We lost our soccer game today 3-4.  I am unhappy with the referees, but that's a very long story.

These are pictures taken from our deck of a little hummingbird.  Last night we saw two of them out there at once (but did not have the camera with us).  The feeder is courtesy of my in-laws (thanks guys!).

Had a game today...  we lost 1-2.

A while ago now we remodeled our 1/2 bath.  Really this meant we pulled everything out (except the bottom half of the toilet), painted, and put everything back in.  The paint idea was Laura's - it's alternating high gloss and flat paint of the same color.  We also added the crown molding to make it match the rest of the house.

We now have fish!  Special thanks goes to Rob (of Bud and Emilia fame) for his contribution of two Orange Platys in a "Big Gulp" cup.  These guys survived in that cup for about 3 days, so I figure there isn't much we can do to hurt them.

That's Frank on the left and Gus on the right.  Gus is "tubbier".  Let's hope Frank doesn't grow too much or we'll never be able to tell them apart.

I believe our next purchase will be an algae eater since Rob found out the hard way that Platys eat snails.  Way to do your research, Rob.

Just had the 4th game in our season yesterday.  I got a goal.  Yay.

Our season so far:  W 1-0, L 1-8, L 2-5, W 3-0.  So we're at .500 for the season now.