It's Fate I Tell Thee...
I had a great day out today, really refreshing to get away from the computer and out of the house. The day didn't start off brilliantly with Anita leaving her phone at home despite telling me she'd ring me when she was up Halton Lea. So I got bored of waiting around, and decided to head up the there anyway... the way I figured it is that i'm looking for a wireless router so that I can do my MobGames stuff downstairs where it's more attuned to working rather than upstairs where a lot of my entertainment stuff is like my gaming PC and TV etc.
So after walking there (it's only 10 minutes away from mine) I arrived in Argos and low and behold there was Anita with her mum and her two nieces. Fate, must be. Either way we eventually set off around a few of the shops with Anita looking at some last minute holidays. Not sure if we'll be going abroad this year together since we're going on holiday later this month. I might be a bit strapped for cash to with my mates pestering me to come with them to either Riga or a small town 90 miles north of Oslo in November. If we do go away it might only be to Dublin or Paris for the weekend, which will be nice.
We had already decided the day before we were going to go back to mine with Macey (Anita's eldest niece who is 17 months old since her younger one, Mia was going to have her needles done). Anyway, the point is today I finally got to test out the Rode Videomic and Velbon DV7000 tripod properly for the first time. Both performed beyond my expectations. I had a little scare with a bit of feedback when I was playing the footage back in the editor the first time but when I tried it 20 minutes ago without the mic attached to the camcorder it was fine, must be something to do with the mic being plugged in. Other than that crystal clear and nice and loud sound was what I wanted and what I got. Sure there is some worry with the GS250 not being about to monitor sound but with both the Mic and the Camcorder set to low cut it wasn't too much of a problem.
It was nice to finish off the day spending time with Anita's younger sister and Macey messing about in the paddling pool. Its really nice spending time with the kids because I missed that when I was growing up with my family really strict about other kids holding babies and toddlers. It's also a great learning experience for later on in life when me and Anita finally get round to having kids of our own.
So after walking there (it's only 10 minutes away from mine) I arrived in Argos and low and behold there was Anita with her mum and her two nieces. Fate, must be. Either way we eventually set off around a few of the shops with Anita looking at some last minute holidays. Not sure if we'll be going abroad this year together since we're going on holiday later this month. I might be a bit strapped for cash to with my mates pestering me to come with them to either Riga or a small town 90 miles north of Oslo in November. If we do go away it might only be to Dublin or Paris for the weekend, which will be nice.
We had already decided the day before we were going to go back to mine with Macey (Anita's eldest niece who is 17 months old since her younger one, Mia was going to have her needles done). Anyway, the point is today I finally got to test out the Rode Videomic and Velbon DV7000 tripod properly for the first time. Both performed beyond my expectations. I had a little scare with a bit of feedback when I was playing the footage back in the editor the first time but when I tried it 20 minutes ago without the mic attached to the camcorder it was fine, must be something to do with the mic being plugged in. Other than that crystal clear and nice and loud sound was what I wanted and what I got. Sure there is some worry with the GS250 not being about to monitor sound but with both the Mic and the Camcorder set to low cut it wasn't too much of a problem.
It was nice to finish off the day spending time with Anita's younger sister and Macey messing about in the paddling pool. Its really nice spending time with the kids because I missed that when I was growing up with my family really strict about other kids holding babies and toddlers. It's also a great learning experience for later on in life when me and Anita finally get round to having kids of our own.
posted by Ben Furfie at
Thursday, July 06, 2006
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