January first. 1/1/11. Up early to fix to food for the annual New Years Day open house with three kinds of “good luck” food…A tradition I’ve been carrying on sometime after my sister moved south. Our New Years revelry consists of baking and housecleaning. I spent a good bit of yesterday getting my video of the Blues Concert at St. John’s College edited and published to DVD. In addition to the final edits, it took about six hours for the file to export to a movie file (H.264) and another several hours of creating the DVD menus and rendering it all for those formats. I finished just at midnight and sat down to watch for a few minutes on the family TV, and testing the menu buttons: chapters, play, next, previous, etc. Hey! It all worked. Your can create those menus in Photoshop with each button being a layer. You just have to put little codes in the layer names “(+)” for example, goes before the name of most links. Nice to be able to use one’s own images and layout, rather than accepting whatever templates are provided with the program. Collard greens are boiling, along with the black eyed peas. Corned beef and cabbage are mostly done. Pies, cakes, cookies baking away. Cider stewing in the samovar, fresh hot coffee. Crisp weather outdoors, but not frigid. Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine.
Happy New Year!!!