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Monday 26 July 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

First: I must like having several projects going on at once, because it seems like I have had about four or five personal projects going on at any one time in my life during the past, oh, twenty years. By personal projects, I obviously don’t mean anything related to employment or schooling, but I also don’t mean home projects, either – like sheet-rocking a basement or tending to a garden.I mean honest-to-goodness personal projects that have no discernible value. Like this blog.<\/p>\n

The annoying thing is setting aside time to work on a project, but then being unable to. Like today, I planned to finish up a video during my lunch break. An hour should’ve been enough time. I needed to find some royalty-free music, and then just use it as appropriate in this (supposedly) simple, short filmlet. But I couldn’t locate this great site, that offers easy downloads of royalty-free music. I’ve used that site before, but I couldn’t find it today. I found another site, but they charged for their music. Add to that the fact that about 75% of the sites I tried visiting were blocked thanks to my job’s Great Wall of Blocked Sites. So, not only did I not finish the filmlet during my lunch break, I made almost no progress at all. Bummer. Once this filmlet is finally wrapped up, I’m gonna dedicate that day’s blog post to telling the story of what should’ve been a quick video to create.<\/p>\n

You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n

Second: my wife requested that I put the day of the week at the start of each blog post. Her exact request was: “You should out the day at the top of each post.” So I said: “I do.” She said: “No you don’t.” Then I said: “Oh, you mean the day of the week?” And she said: “Yeah.” So that’s that. Behold: it is Monday.<\/p>\n

Third: cool story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 27 July2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

And here’s part of the problem with trying to write something about each day: often times, the events of the day aren’t “ready” to talk about or show on that day. Here then, are some photos I took back on Sunday:<\/p>\n\n\t\t