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Up early for a full English breakfast. Normally I would be all for trying the local cuisine but I was still full from last night’s Indian food extravaganza. So being greeted by the full English brekky was more ick than yum. And what IS that black pudding they speak of? Doesn’t look like any pudding I know.

Non Sequitor - Now I know where some of our more esoteric Southern breakfast traditions may have originated. Dang English ancestors!
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I really have no clue how to talk like a pirate but I did find an article about Captain Kidd’s ship being found pretty dang interesting. It seems the ship, Quedagh Merchant, was sitting on the bottom of the ocean in about 70 feet of water near the Dominican Republic. It’s visible from the surface and yet no one noticed till now! What a find. I would be peeing myself to dive down there and touch it. Apparently, Kidd was NOT the bad-ass pirate legend made him out. It seems from the article below he was just a little unlucky and lots of naive. Poor guy. He was convicted without trial, dipped in tar and then hanged (twice) and gibbeted. Egads, those English folks were a mean bunch.

More details are in the full article from the Mirror.co.uk below.
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A bit ago I posted about my desire to pursue video making as some sort of artistic outlet. I have such cool mini-movies going on in my head all the time. Surely, it can’t be that hard to move them from the old grey matter into real-time so others can enjoy or be wigged out by my eccentricity.

N.B. - I’m only eccentric in my head, not in public.

The Windows Moviemaker is too simplistic and doesn’t allow me to do the really cool shite I have in my head. So I downloaded the Adobe C3 Premiere Pro thingy to take it for a spin. I thought ‘hey! I can totally work the Photoshop mojo so C3 can’t be that much harder.’

Famous last words.

Egads, I can hardly figure out how to open a bit of video I recorded! There’s SO much I can do with this tool and I have no clue how to start. Why can’t we have Matrix-like brain uploads so I can instantly know how to use this fine application? Cuz the Matrix isn’t real. Which kinda annoys me.

So far, it’s taken me about a week to figure out how to get my video clip into the app. And about 8 hours to figure out how to apply any kind of special effect. At this rate I should have my first masterpiece ready for you in about two years. And this coming from a gal who used to wade around in StudioVision with happy glee.

I guess this means I’ll be buying one of those 60 pound $500 how-to books. (ALERT! Gift Idea!)

Ever wanted to know what that meant? According to the Wikipedia:

The Twelve Days of Christmas and the associated evenings of those twelve days (Twelve-tide), are the festive days beginning the evening of Christmas Day (December 25) through the morning of Epiphany (January 6). The associated evenings of the twelve days begin on the evening before the specified day. Thus, the first night of Christmas is December 24–25, and Twelfth Night is January 5–6. This period is also known as Christmastide.

Over the centuries, differing churches and sects of Christianity have changed the actual traditions, time frame, and their interpretations. St. Stephen’s Day, for example, is December 26 in the Western Church and December 27 in the Eastern Church. December 26 is Boxing Day in the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies; December 28 is Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents. Currently, the 12 days and nights are celebrated in widely varying ways around the world. For example, some give gifts only on Christmas night, some only on Twelfth Night, and some each of the 12 nights. What remains constant is celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25th, and a period of twelve days and nights following leading to Epiphany.

I think we should institute the tradition of giving a present every day of the 12 days! Would THAT be nice?!

Put your milk and cookies out for Santa, OK?