Saw Austin Powers in…Goldmember this weekend. For being the third movie in the series, that was seriously one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in the theatre. I was smiling and/or laughing throughout the entire thing…so much so that my face was absolutely aching by the time it was over. Sheesh!

Had a nice thunderstorm this morning. A huge booming crack of thunder woke me up at 2:43 this morning so I stood by the window and listened to the rain fall (since it was too dark to actually watch it). It was a welcome relief from the yucky, sticky humidity that was going on yesterday. I took my iMac in the basement with me again during the afternoon and watched DVDs while I crocheted. It was kind of boring, but I couldn’t really do much more without sweating like a pig. (As my mother is absolutely against the idea of air conditioning.)

When I wasn’t busy trying to keep from sweating this weekend, I tried to get video capture to work on my computer. My video card is a Radeon 7500 VIVO which is supposed to do video caputre, but it does a pretty shoddy job. It does grab the video as MPEG-2 but it drops frames like crazy. I never have had too much success using the vid card for that purpose, so I tried again to use my USB vidcap device, which previously hadn’t worked worth crap. Well, finally, I figured out how the fricken software worked (I absolutely do NOT recommend Ulead Video Studio to anyone who wants to do serious video capture/editing…*shudder* It’s unbelievably counter-intuitive) and finally saw a bit of success. Aside from the software blazing along at a snail’s pace, the only problem I encountered was when I tried to convert the MPEG-2 to avi. The video got caught at one point and I’m not sure why. I ran out of time to futz with it, so maybe later this week I’ll try again.

My brother left for college for the year already. He’s going to be part of the athletic training program in Madison working with the football team for about a month before classes start. That should be a cool experience for him. I’m very excited for him because it’s something he really wants to do, although he has to basically block himself off from the outside world during this time. Hope he can find the strength to do without TV and internet for a month…

And grrrrrrr! Photoshop has been erroring out on me all morning. And I’m in several queues on IRC right now, so I absolutely do not want to reboot…