Author: laura

About to take off

Everything’s packed and I’m about to leave. Of course those fuckers at Hartsfield aren’t decent enough to have free Wi-Fi. Dirty bastards. That’s okay, I have books and a few episodes of South Park and Family Guy to keep me entertained.

I swear one of the hardest parts about packing for a trip is picking the books. I never know what I’m going to be in the mood to read. So I tend to have several books. In this case, I’ve got five. I think I should be covered.

Speaking of books, two different authors have given me a credit in their books. One book contains the ramblings of a right-wing radio talk show host and the other is a vegan cook book…

Introducing the Kittens

Okay, this is what I’ve been doing instead of packing. Hey, there’s plenty of time! This one was taken with the built-in iSight on my MacBook. I don’t know what that noise is all about. I tried removing in iMovie but didn’t have much luck with that. I found a setting under the Sound system preferences that reduces background noise. I’ve picked that option and we’ll see if future ones are better. I thought I’d hate videos with me in them so much that I’d never post, but I actually don’t mind it that much. Even though my eyes are all puffy from taking a nap.

Possum & Tak Playing

I was all excited when I saw a feature in youtube that would apparently automatically post videos that you upload to your blog. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to actually work. That’s okay, embedding will.

The point of all this is that I’m taking my laptop to Israel and thought it would be cool to post videos as well. This is the first of my tests. This video was taken with my digital camera. This is Tak & Possum playing. Tak occasionally tries to play with Possum, but mostly I think she’s afraid of her. Must be the sharp bits she’s concerned about, even though Possum is just smacking her with her paw these days.