Now I remember...

Yes, now I remember why I gave up this enterprise so many months ago. I just tried to upload photos onto something called 'picasaweb,' which is supposed to make it easy to do, and it's free, yadda, yadda. The idea is to post a link on this blog to picasaweb, so that people can easily link to our photos. (I stole this idea from our good friend Emily, who knows how to do this stuff.)

Well, like I said, I just tried to do this with the latest roll of photos I had developed, and it is just insane how time-consuming and hard it is to do (for me). First of all, you can't just upload the entire photo CD to the picasaweb. You have to do one photo at a time. There is a download on the picasaweb site to help you upload an entire photo album, but of course my Mac is too old for it.

Also, the iphoto program that came with my Mac is so user-unfriendly...it really doesn't help you at all with moving photos to different places. About the most I seem to be able to do is import photos from the photo CD into iphoto. Then when I go to look for the photos from iphoto, to upload into the picasaweb, I can't find the goddamn photos! If the CD is in the drive, then I can find them. But a monkey could probably do that.

What I really need is a full-time iphoto technician or whatever to stand next to me as I try to accomplish these things and talk me through it step by step. Or maybe I'll just throw money at them until they make it work.

This is the kind of shit that I just have no patience for whatsoever. See, it's a beautiful day outside, and I'm farting around on this crappy computer and these crappy programs that I can't operate.

Okay, now that I've expressed my frustration with this whole thing, I will go back and see what progress I can make. Wish me luck...

Return of the lost blog...

Hello! Well, it's only been about seven months since my last entry, but I thought I'd go ahead and post another one...

But seriously, I really lost track of this idea for a while, but now I'm getting back to it. I'll keep adding pictures and videos and more entries as I'm able to.

A few months ago I actually started a subscription to mac.com because I thought it would be easier to use. But it turns out that this works just fine, and it's free! Apple charges $100 a year for a basic mac.com membership. So I used the trial version for a while and then just dropped out.

So, the bottom line is, we're back in the blogosphere! Look for more exciting stuff to read and look at real soon...

Andy, Kris, and Ben

Andy's video

This is me playing the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. This is from my concert on July 15, 2007 at the Evangelical Covenant Church on Edison Road in South Bend. No, we're not members! The ECC is where the South Bend Music Teachers Association has their recitals, and I weaseled my way in to do a concert of my own.

Crawling and content!