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Shobhit had his Project Management virtual class last night, and I took one evening off of movie watching and reviewing, so I spent some time editing and uploading my digitized old home videos. Shall we run down which Flickr photo albums got video clips added to them this time?
"Living with Danielle" got ten clips added. This is an album that covers the first two months of the four she lived with me after moving to Seattle from Spokane in early 2000. There will no doubt be at least a few more added to this album as I continue working through the year 2000, which probably has more home video coverage than any other calendar year of my life.
"Victoria 2000" got three clips added, this being my third-ever trip to Victoria, B.C., on which I brought Barbara as a guest while I went to do a tourism piece for the Seattle Gay News. I still remember how, after the piece was written (I should scan the old piece and add that to the album, come to think of it), the tourism organization that had hosted me so I did not have to pay for anything we did there, was a little miffed that I never wrote anything about the rental condo we stayed in. And to be fair, the place was really very nice, as evidenced by my home video footage there.
"Visiting Jennifer in Pullman 2000" not only has two video clips, but necessitated creating a separate photo album for it for the first time—until now, the six still photos I took there were just kept in my "Misc 2000" album, but now I could add this set to my history of visits to Pullman collection. I'll have to add another one once I upload clips of Jennifer's college graduation in 2001 (she was three years behind me, even though she's only a year and a half younger than I am, thanks to repeating a grade as a kid, if I remember right). I'm realizing now for the first time in ages that, prior to when Shobhit and I visited Pullman on our way to visit Mom and Bill in 2005, the last time I had been to Pullman had been Jennifer's graduation in 2001—only four years prior. Not that long at all, although to be fair four years feels like a lot longer time span in your twenties than it does in your forties. Still, that 2005 trip, the only one I ever took when neither I nor anyone else I knew was still going to school there, was the last time I was in Pullman. College was still recent enough then for me to wax nostalgic about it; I don't think going there would have anywhere near the same effect now.
Oh, and one final note about the video clips added to the "Misc 2000" album: three of them were recorded by Danielle, as she was still living with me but hosted her sister Alisha for a visit in March of that year, while I was away the very same weekend visiting Auntie Rose. That was the third and final year after three in a row where I spent a weekend with her there. Anyway, Danielle's footage includes the Kingdome implosion. My best guess is that this was the best time to fit a visit with Auntie Rose for both her and my schedules, but I otherwise would have really wanted to be home to witness the implosion myself, and thus I probably asked Danielle to record it for me. The footage isn't the greatest, and Danielle happened to have the camera moved away at the moment of the explosion itself, but there's still some pretty great footage of the smoke billowing into the air.
And all that is just into April of that year! The biggest event of my life that year was easily the trip to Washington, D.C. with Danielle and Barbara for the Millennium March on Washington for LGBT rights, and the march itself occurred on my 24th birthday. It was awesome, as was the whole trip: we all stayed in the basement of Beth's grandmother's house (said grandmother being Barbara's ex-mother-in-law). As you can imagine I have a lot of home video footage of that trip.
Now, I've just finished with Work Office Lunch Meetup #31, this one cut short at 40 minutes thanks to the official "Social & Environmental Responsibility" account Rebecca had been using, which is a paid account and is now needed for something else, having been switched to Rebecca's private account to host, which is free and thus has the forty-minute time limit. Annoying! Oh well, it's still better than nothing. Also we have an all-Merchandising meeting at 1:00 so this allows me to finish this up in the last several minutes of the hour so I don't have to work on it in the middle of the next meeting.
—Update! No one knows how or why it happened, but we got a pop-up message in the call at 12:30 telling us we had unlimited minutes after all. Ironically, Rebecca, who is the host, was the only one who didn't notice because she was looking away at that moment. In any case, although Brent had to hop off at right about that point, the rest of us—Rebecca, Noah, Katherine and myself—were on the call clear though 1:00 after all. So, I wrote this paragraph in the past ten minutes while the call was still going on. So now I need to post this so I can be ready for our first-Wednesday-of-the-month All Merchandising meeting. And that before I have yet another Zoom meeting invite at 2:00. Whee!
[posted 12:57 pm]