Technology

I was defeated by technology today - managed to get a DVD's worth of video from the 2009 Lookout Mountain Convention onto Jerry's iMac, pretty sure I managed to convert it into playable format, but then iMovie just could not find it, no matter what I did.  Meanwhile, I managed to get Jerry's scanner to work, using his old PC, but the scanned photos are in a format that my computer doesn't recognize (.spp), so I'll have to try again.  But I did find a treasure trove of more photos on Jerry's PC (once it stopped shutting itself off for no reason - ah, yes, now I remember for the umpteenth time why we switched over to Macs a few years ago).  One for now, since the photo loader thingie on Blogger is also being obnoxious and not showing what I've just put on iPhoto (but does continue to show photos I've supposedly deleted from the computer):

This is the only photo taken of the two of us on our honeymoon in Ireland in 2003 (yes, three years after we got married, we finally managed a 6-day honeymoon).  All the other photos of us are of either just me or just Jerry, but luckily we had someone take a picture of us together on the Cliffs of Moher ("Mohair," per Jerry, as I've said).

Had my hair cut today - it was nice to see Lindsey, even if I didn't quite get through the entire thing without almost crying.

Rain gauge since midnight last night: 4.17 inches.  Must have slept through a bunch of the rain after finally getting to sleep at around 2 a.m.  Apparently lots of flooding in Chicago today.  Good thing we live on a hill.  And good thing I had the gutters cleaned: the basement has stayed dry through all this rain... so far.

(Good thing I live on a hill.  I.  Not "we."  Still don't want to get used to that.)

I had a dream last night that Jerry had an identical twin who was still alive - he was physically exactly like him, except he was clean-shaven, had no beard (last time Jerry was actually clean-shaven was something like 1971, he told me).  I don't remember anything except that, and a sense that this non-Jerry wasn't friendly.

Another mostly numb day.