Friday saw me at home all day. I could say it was because I had lots to do but in reality it was because Steve's battery died on his car, rain was forecast (so no motorcycle riding) and he needed to take mine since I didn't have to work. So regardless, I was home.
Decided to take on a long-needed task of hunting, gathering, sorting. Videos & DVDs. When you have to temporarily relocate a bunch of them to a suitcase so that company can come, it's time. We have a large shelf in our bedroom (formerly from the video store) which held a mixture of VHS and Beta (yes, BETA!) tapes; there were more on a dresser in the bedroom; the TV stand held a bunch; and there was the aforementioned suitcase full, relocated from our dining room table.
Started by pulling all the Beta tapes off the shelf and boxing them up. I didn't even think we had the Beta machine anymore; Steve assures me it's in the basement somewhere. Anyway, don't think we'll be using it anytime soon. So out they went. Then pulled together all the VHS from all the locations. Kids movies went on the second to the bottom shelf as I don't think we'll be using them anytime soon either. The shelf above held taped TV shows of interest; above that were movies taped off the TV; top shelf was for "real" movies (those bought from the store.) The bottom shelf was reserved for videos like our wedding and those of the kids.
All the DVDs now fit under the TV where they will be most used. The job took all day, ok with a few breaks now and then. Steve suggested, that since I had "found" his home movies on VHS tape, I should make a DVD of it to preserve them. Now I'd had a dual deck recorder for over a year but never got around to using it for recording DVDs from VHS. Found out it was a lot easier than I thought; it just records in real time which means that the entire tape has to play.
After making a copy of Steve's home movie VHS tape (I'd already burned mine a few years back) I decided to get started on the rest of the VHS home video tapes. So yesterday I was able to watch our wedding, start to finish, and then started watching Scott's baby tapes. I really sounded like quite a moron at times talking baby talk to him, trying to get him to talk back on tape! But I'm sure he didn't care one bit. As I finished up last night, I had three DVDs burned, and was up to January 1988. Lots of cute stuff I'd kind of forgotten! Eric was only mildly interested, he just couldn't believe how young we all looked! Just wait until he sees his own baby tapes...
So it was a nice day tripping down memory lane! And I'll be doing more of it today, I have one more VHS tape of Scott's, then a few of Eric's before I'll have to get started on the 8mm tapes. Hope our old camcorder still works so I can hook it up to the DVD recorder.
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