>The weather the past few days has been fairly dark… it was raining heavily all day yesterday, and was somewhat cold earlier today. About 4:30, or 5 it went from partly sunny to pouring rain. Halfway through the rain the sun came out, shining through the drops… creating somewhat of a sparkling effect on my cubicle wall. The rain has since stopped, and the sun is shining right on me. The trees outside form a sort of canopy, all soggy from the rain, the leaves just droop together. It’s a quiet, peaceful time outside.

I got a call from Ken regarding another house to look at. We’ve been looking at several places, each seemingly better then the rest (for the most part). The latest place sounds absolutely wonderful… and we’re determined to make a good impression. It’s fully furnished, as much as we want to keep, as the current owner is just looking to move down south. Electricity and cable included, dishwasher, washer/dryer, 2 car gararge…

It sounds great, I’m really hopeful. I might even be able to move sooner then my original plan of August/September. That would ease my mind about a lot of things.

I found a great little utility that goes DivX avi to MPEG in one shot. There’s one catch: it’s all in Japanese – random ascii characters without a translator program. I still have to do the audio separately, but that can be extracted, or used from the original rip if I keep the file. Now all I need is a good version of Premier to cut the video into hour long segments. I am sure I’ll have to play with some settings — 60 minutes of MPEG supposedly fits on a CD in VCD format… but not sure what quality audio that is — or if I can keep it in MP3 format for a DVD player to be able to read the audio. I’ll post more info in the DivX section of the messageboard.