A surprisingly fruitful weekend

 It's Sunday night right now -- and usually I'm mildly disappointed with how I barely accomplished my "To Do" items for the weekend.  However, this weekend is a pleasant change, in that I've managed to complete all but one (or two?) tasks?

My accomplishments -- some of which were on the list I made Friday, and others popped up:

 

Accomplished: 

-Did a "junk edit" (my term:  a crummy version of a "rough cut" -- not particularly worrying about the timing of cuts -- just checking for coverage and whether the over-all concept will work) of some footage I shot during a break on Friday.

-Checked out one of the pawn shops I like to go to; found an inexpensive HDMI monitor for my son (he paid me back) that was larger than his current monitor

-Took a small pile of scrap metal to the metal recycling yard:  usually there's a line and I can't be bothered to wait in line for five bucks (I do it for environmental reasons, not for the money), so I just give my small handful to someone else in line, to add to their stash.  But, this time there was no line, and the guy said that **I** should just take the money:  okay.  So: AU$15:  sure!  :) 

-Picked up a DisplayPort to VGA adaptor, for work -- but then used that with a spare VGA monitor I had to let my son add a second monitor to his PC (he paid me for the adaptor) 

-Picked up some supplies for next weekend's church fete:  I'm staffing a "Children's percussion" booth, with a few floor toms, cymbals, and etc. -- so bought sanitizing spray (for the "earmuff-style" hearing protectors for the kids), some yellow rope (to cordon off the line for the kids waiting their turn), some carpet tape (to join a large piece of carpet with a smaller piece of carpet; see below)

-Shot some test footage at different shutter speeds, for my "wandering samurai" film short

-Met up with The Lady's family, for a family birthday "afternoon tea"

-Reviewed the footage

-Made three pairs of non-pointy drumsticks (i.e. "kid safe") for this coming Saturday's church fete:  the brown pair from a thick dowel; the yellow pair from a slightly thinner dowel; and the strange pair from an old branch.  De-barked the branch, then sandpapered it; rounded the "striking end" of all drumsticks, then oiled with Danish oil.

-Went to church, did audio, did some diagnostic stuff afterwards

-Visited another branch of the pawn shop chain I liked, and picked up an interesting but inexpensive digital camera (shoots at 720p)

-The Girl helped me get the floor tom, kick drum, and etc. out of storage, and piled it next to the car

-The Girl helped me get a large piece of carpet (about 3m x 3m (10ft x 10ft?) that I've had since 210 out of the garage:  I laid it out on the lawn, and vacuumed the underside, then the top; rolled it up; will be the "percussion zone" at the church fete

-Had a Zoom meeting with my family from the U.S. (I'm in Australia) 

-Took a few weeks' of bottles and cans to the bottle recyclers (10c per bottle/can): got about AU$14, which is typical.  

-Got another DisplayPort to VGA adaptor for work, since my son bought the previous one from me; also bought an inexpensive 16GB SD card for my "new" used digital camera.

-Took the drums to church, covered them with some old curtains (to make them less obvious; also to keep the dust off. 

-Throughout the weekend, various loads of laundry.

Will now listen to one or two sides of an LP - -then go to bed.  :)

Did not do:  

-Another non-narrative film short, to honour another family birthday (instead of sending gifts:  as adults, everyone has "stuff" already).

-Put some more time in towards editing the audio of an interview I did of my late maternal grandfather. 

Noting that some of the above productivity was at the expense of sleep:  stayed up late on Friday (2am?) doing my "junk edit" -- then got up early-ish.  Mean to take a nap on Saturday, but kept going from one thing to another.  Mean to go to bed early Saturday night:  didn't.  Got up early on Sunday.

Whoops! And now it's 10:20pm.  Okay -- maybe just one side of a record...

--GG