So this afternoon I finally dragged my butt out to try this ‘Couch to 5K’ podcast run. Oh Ma Gawd! Half way through the man tells me “You should be feeling the affects of the running, but shouldn’t be tired or out of breath.” I was like “all of the above!” I finished it, and worked up a sweat like I’ve never done at the gym on the cardio equipment. I have to say to keep this up I will need better tennis shoes for sure. Running in sketchers doesn’t cut it, even if they are the ’sport’ variety.

The above is another local news bit with the BF. He wasn’t given as much airtime as in the last one, but he’s put together a bit better this time I also have a beef to pick with CBS for the way they edited it as you can’t distinguish between the two farms in it! All the shopping and customers are his farm, the fields are the other farm in the broadcast. Oh and thank you Cathy Gandolpho for not bothering to even say the name of the farm, when in fact you stood in the parking lot to do your live broadcast!

In the future these things will be nipped in the bud. Like it or not, I’ll probably end up working at the farm when school is over. I’ll need a job, I have no clue what my chances of getting one in my field locally are and I’ve been unofficially offered one doing their website, newsletters and other stuff which I actually can do and they can’t. I’d also be able to do educational stuff about the area too for school groups. Who knows, it’s a big farm, I could find a site on it I’m sure.

My next official video blog will be a walking tour of the farm The weather should be nice this weekend so I’ll take all the videos. Next week I’m in Virginia and specifically Williamsburg. My nights are going to be spent at the Quality Inn, not out partying, so I’ll probably be working at night on school work. I’ll edit my blog when I need a brain break. I’ll also be sure to get photos up of Williamsburg and Jamestown while I’m there!

Okay, so I’ve been ranting and raving in a few posts about how much I love this game ‘Singstar’ for PS3. Well I can’t believe I’m posting this, but I am. I made a video of me camping it up to the ‘Scissor Sisters’ song “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin” for my friends to see what the game is about, and am sharing it with ya’ll.

For some reference, normally you sing to the songs video on the screen, which you can see in one of my previous videoblogs on here. However, if you have the cam for the PS3 then it records a clip of your performance for you to upload online, should you choose to. Right now the uploads are only available to the Playstation community. In the fall this is set to change so that the ‘Singstar Community’ hits the whole web, though you can opt out of having your profile go on the full web should you chose (in case I scare people from buying the game, which everyone should).

Anyway, I made a recording my recording of the ‘Scissor Sisters’ vid. Sorry, no way to extract the original off my PS3. Oh and for the curious, that would be my BF cackling in the middle of it when he saw it was me on the TV singing. Ass! I told him to get up and try it himself, but he wouldn’t. I even enticed him with ‘The Spice Girls,’ ‘Duran Duran,’ and ‘The Weather Girls.’ He will sing when I get enough alcohol in him, and trust me, his videos will go online! BTW so far I’ve gotten 4 out of 5 stars for this video lol! Oh and before leaving comments about my singing, try singing in some Bee Gee’s falsetto in tune on cam yourself first It’s not that easy!

This video goes out to you know who. It’s a dare to the Y to the B to the E C K. Yeah, it’s on baby!

P.S. If anyone wants to add me on the PSN network, I’m RDustinC

They’re here! I finally got them all done. It’s broken up into three parts, which I’ve placed in descending order. They are a little lengthy, sorry, I ramble. Also if you are going to watch these at work, watch the volume. I drop the F-bomb once or twice. I also say the S-word I’m just a potty mouth when I talk!

There are a few little blips here and there in the videos, nothing terrible. I think I was doing too much multi-tasking while uploading these to YouTube and it caused those blips. That or the server’s processing of the video added them in. This isn’t ghostly phenomenon, they aren’t in the originals

So our heat wave is continuing, and yes now they are officially saying it’s a heatwave because it has now been three consecutive days over the 90 degree mark, which is apparently the official requirements for a heatwave. Tomorrow we are supposed to get some rain, so hopefully it will break.

On Saturday I ended up watching the “Army Wives” marathon on TV while dissertating all day. The following image pretty much sums up what I spent at least half of the day doing, the first half was spent writing up this data into an appendix.

This was actually one of the smaller stat sets believe it or not. I have graphs like this with between 60 and 100 plot points. Eeegads! I hate the idea of putting this stuff out there before I’ve finished and defended the dissertation, but I don’t think anyone will figure out what this is or what it means. Simply put, it’s like the old “Sesame Street” skit “One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other,” though in this case it’s some of these things are not like the others, and that’s what is important for my work

Sunday I ended up taking it easy because I had a headache, and therefore I didn’t get much done I’m afraid. The ghost blog was on the list for that day and I did get the videos recorded, now they just need to be edited together. I recorded the first part Sunday night, and as usual rambled on longer than YouTube’s time limit allows. However because something funny happens in the video, I’m editing it into two parts. After I finished that, well then some stuff happened I wasn’t too thrilled about. So I made a third video explaining what went on and some changes to any upcoming ghost videoblog projects. I’ll get these edited as soon as I can and up. Thanks for your patience, I know people want to see them.

Today the dogs were going nuts at the backdoor and I finally looked outback, noticing some people were walking around in the fields I didn’t recognize, so that meant they shouldn’t really be there. It turned out they were from “EyeWitness News” and were here to do a story on the tomato recall. They interviewed my BF for the six’o'clock news. As it turns out, NBC came too, but he’s not going to be on until their 11′o’clock news. I teased him because he didn’t even put on nice clothes or fix his hair or anything.

I figured you’ve already seen me in motion, it’s only fair you see him! Here is the clip from our local news with him. You get to see the farm too, kinda. Where they are walking and talking to him is right behind our house.

So I finally did it, I edited together a bunch of videos and made my very first video blog! It’s nothing fancy, but I did manage to figure out how to get some transition effects in there and what not.

The topic at hand is my current obsession with two videogames: Singstar and Wii Fit. The video honestly isn’t that spectacular. The whole point of this was for me to learn how to edit my videos and string them together well enough. Hopefully I’ll get better as I do more, and the content will be a tad more interesting

Anyway, enjoy the geekiness that is me!

So I finally found some inspiration for my first video blogs! I’ve actually recorded several videos for one on the two videogames I’m currently obsessed with, the Wii Fit and Singstar. I just need to now sit down and learn the editing software. Actually all I need to do is learn how to mark, clip and merge clips. Gosh it sounds so simple!

The other video I decided to do was a video about the house and in particular the ghosts. I thought it would be fun to talk about them as well as possibly call them. One has a knack for showing up if you call his name. Too bad my Ouija board is in Virginia! My original plan was to do this at night for the atmosphere, but I’m starting to chicken out with the night thing honestly. I have enough trouble being downstairs alone late at night as is because they’ve been coming around a lot lately.

The following video was made very quickly by me this morning, so there isn’t much fanciness to it. In fact I didn’t even use the video editing software I bought, I did it all with the camera because I don’t have time to be fooling around this morning. We leave for Vegas soon! Anyway, anytime Princess sees me with a suitcase she goes into hysterics as she thinks I’m leaving her. This morning was pretty mild compared to her usual antics.