- or that aspect of me, really, which doesn’t give up. I drive myself mental with it. Truly. Some times that works for me, sometimes not.
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So, the next chapter was due out last Saturday (in my mind). So, I worked on it – love it! - you know, the weekend! feel good! Got most of it done Saturday and physically tore myself from the computer for a jog and sauna.
Alas, iMovie kept crashing that night (the next chapter is a reading by me; hope y’all will like it).
.So, I think there’s always tomorrow. Need sleep. Been a big week. Must not develop insomnia over the next chapter, crazy driven though I am.
Ditto MEGA FAILS the next day : crash, re-edit x 1 billion, until the end of the day – again I tear myself away to tend to the physical being, which needs exercise as much as the mental self.
At least there’s Monday after work all day, yoga, dinner, dishes, need sleep.
Long story short last night was Tuesday and after my day’s work all my house work, I was DETERMINED TO GET IT DONE IN SPITE OF iMOVIE, REGARDLESS OF THE EVER-FAILING iMOVIE. Fancy trying to get something creative done ‘in spite of’ iMovie!!
Consequence: I have had 1 hour & 56 minutes sleep all night. I now must go to work. And I cannot EXPORT the movie/reading I have created & re-edited & re-edited & re-edited through the night, after each of iMovie’s MADDENING crashes. I am talking MADDENING crashes.
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Subbers, thanks for being there. Simple as that. Having an audience DOES inspire me to keep going with this novel. And I want you to know I’m trying, oh, I’m trying to deliver.
This novel will have closure this year, this whole part in my life will have closure this year. This tree has had all its leaves fall to the ground – my words, my tears – and this year it’s going to sprout new life, on closure of this tell.
However, despite ALL my efforts from Saturday to now, 8.39 am Wednesday 20th February, I still have note been able to PUBLISH what I’ve made for you.
This has also taken my time from visiting you – which is more torture via iMovie. I ENJOY visiting you, swinging by, seeing wassup. I enjoy that.
So this is what you call an update. It’s made – the next chapter reading (and ooh some good footage 
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To the recently subscribed: I’m very touched you have interest. Thank you. Who ever would have known while I lived this, I would find any kind of poetry in it – ever – and then find this forum by which to reach people… hopefully including people once like me; because I highly recommend if you are anything like I was, you take a first step forward away from that victim. Life can actually be a source of joy (this is a revelation to me; sorry if it’s common knowledge out there).
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Copyright, N’n.
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Hey! Just thought of a great advertisement for iMovie:
” iMovie
iSuck “
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
“Unable to prepare project for publishing…
The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-108)”
Wow, very creative…and on such little sleep…Hey, I think I just missed you while I was publishing the chapter I’m certain was just for you…hope you’ll read it.
Bless you and Daniel
I do not know if this will help: I am not sure what that error code is but I think the problem is that one of the iMovie Preference files could be corrupted.
If this is the problem, go to [Your Home Folder]/Libary/Preferences] and delete all the files that start with “com.apple.iMovie”. Don’t worry about deleting these files, iMovie will regenerate them automatically. The video linked below explains how to do it.
If what explained above does not fix the problem, try freeing up space on your computer, and ejecting any external drives?
And checking out some forums for help? Do you have a Mac store locally?
Continue as you can. Life is not a race or a timetabled, scheduled mapped out measure of achievement. The greatest achievement has to be experiencing the joy that you discover
OX
Thank you so, so much for troubling to comment with such a lead, Johnny. I emailed this comment on to the mac repair guys.
They’ve had the mac since Wednesday lunch time. This is so, not funny. Sigh.
But like I said with today’s post : ohhhhh, first-world problems. How fortunate we each are, in reality.
I really appreciate you troubling to comment, offer me help. Thank you
Noleen, relax my friend. We will be here when you get here. We are judging you or demanding of you a timeline. Relax.
Tee hee, oh Valentine, I’m hoping you meant to put a ‘NOT’ in your 3rd sentence!
Thank you so much, your reassurance.
Yet, I have required of myself a timeline : 2013 = closure : because I first began to write this more than 10 years before today, stupefied by court processes and still not understanding how ‘but if you tell the truth, how can it not go rightly?’ and ‘how – and then WHY? – how and why can this person swear an oath, stand before a Magistrate (who ideally, keeps aright the human way, all our ego-faults despite) – but HOW, but WHY to the very core of reason, does this person, the father, lie so openly, so easily? Surely, surely it is not to avoid parting with that green paper, that illusion of well-doing??… Obviously to avoid jail, but… wouldn’t this be an opportunity to be real for, is my impression, the first time ever?…
.. having first begun this so soon after the fact, and slumped in my chair in tears, UNABLE to write it so soon after, TO VOCALISE it, TO PROCESS it,
then remaining incapable years after when it continued to be raw,
then more years after when I was stupefied not by human choices but by alcohol,
well,
after literally nearly dying 2011 … God knows, I can never forget that Priest arriving and me in the land of oblivion still managing to say, “Thanks but no thanks; what I know of God you cannot make in me”…(ie me giving up, and by my own hand, like my Mother did) & starting this blog to ‘out with it’, a year has passed already and I have accomplished nothing but comfort from other human beings of similar take, of similar experience; and while so spiritually bolstering that has proven to be, and awesomely encouraging to this spirit who thought it were nil of value purpose or meaning, I myself have determined this chapter will close this year, and I will begin my life.
You would think I would begin life at 17 when I fled my father’s realm; but no – or upon leaving the marriage; but not really (I was in the throes of discovery, and still being so wounded of childhood, not really, LIVEing) – but no; or upon giving birth to a human being, my progeny, the only being by the exisence of whom I recognise what it is, ‘to love’ – but no. And after he turned 10, when we were mostly over the agitations by, and control by the other parent – but no. Or perhaps I would start to live when he turned 13 and in Melbourne’s so bitter winter we arrived jobless, homeless, without school certain or school uniform & books for just half a year affordable (‘love is’ also the endless capacity of credit cards to fund ‘a life’/or two!!) – but no. Perhaps life would start once we did in fact settle? No. Oh no! THEN it broke apart. Then I collapsed, & bla the story goes.
Nope.
I recognise this year in yoga sessions and not avoidance, but distaste, of the brain addling which alcohol assures, I recognise this year my life begins. But first I must close that page for another page to open.
If that makes any sense…
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But I LOVE your patience, all of you; your encouragement and will that I make this a done deal not merely in print, but in script across my heart written in the ash of those days once so incensed, to blow freely in lift-of when upon publication I visit the ocean and let it all just fly off me, so very a ‘scattering of the ashes’.
Valentine, I love all of your support like you cannot imagine. It is no ego boosting or massaging in this case. It is something quite else – for if only you all heard the words of damnation of my father day upon night upon die (not a typo), hiding in a cupboard or under a dusty bed, you could not escape those words of my futility of existence (as if every human being isn’t already born with that sense, he insisted on concreting it), my lack of skill, talent, worth, creativity, imagination, and ‘no man will ever love you for YOU – every man just wants one thing offya’, let alone, “if yer ever lucky enough to find an employer who wants you, stick with them for life’,
upon which advice, naturally for a rebel, I took to winning over many employers then leaving the jobs when they (as they all did) became boring,
if you could know it all from my perspective, you would see what warmth it is to have you all “there, when you’re ready, Noeleen”;
and you would all see why when my sister in 2012 commenced her hate campaign, influx of hate into my inboxes Hotmail & WordPress, setting up new email addresses just to get through again and again (hmmm, quite like my father, this passtime of vitriol, bitterness & determination to destroy) and demanded my list of subscribers to tell them of her new web site, for which she would buy a computer especially to construct, and on which she could write “day and night” (with no working responsibilities) a site dedicated to ‘the truth of Noeleen&Daniel’, composed of her imagination and resentment she has not known me intimately at all, ever, for she chose her ways with me, let alone to change her surname and excommunicate herself etcetera and bla,
this site of utter hate and intent of destruction of who I be (which who cannot be destroyed, for is; will continue to be), the destruction of ‘me in public hollogram’ as many a society is wont to prefer – you would know why that so offended, why it so surprised when she seethed ‘BITCH!’ in court, requiring security to attend and watch over… etc, and bla.
I forgive my sister, by the way, though want nil to do with such self-chosen-style of being. That came more easily than I can bring myself to forgive my father the near-destruction of me. Well, his attempted destruction of this spirit was seven years in the ring, my sister but 8 months. I don’t know; I guess because I know in which household she was born.
Ah, there’s times I open a comment and it might be but a few sentences, though who it came from and what it says, invokes the crap-on of me. I should have just said, ‘Dear Valentine. Thanks. ps: was that a typo-omission of a word in the third line?…”
or not…
Thanks, Valentine x N’n.
Hi, Noeleen, I am not Valentine, but I’d like to make a few comments to your very long and very interesting reply, which is really like a post and tells so much about the person you are. If I may voice my opinion here, I think a ‘time-line’ is a good thing for you to work upon. But I also think that Valentine is right that you should relax, meaning you should avoid working yourself into total exhaustion. If you feel absolutely stressed tell yourself you deserve to take some time out. The exercising you do is of course commendable but occasionally you might have to spend a bit of extra time out. With you intelligence there is great hope you’ll be able to work to a certain time schedule by just relaxing when needed. Don’t be scared. And believe me alcohol is not needed to prop you up. Think of other things you can enjoy to make you feel good! Love, Aunty Uta.
Hello Aunty Uta
Yes, I realise now my reply was very long. Glad it had some aspect of interesting!
You’re so sweet, how gently you laid down your comment, your views. Your opinion is welcome, Aunty Uta – you have lived quite some life yourself, which opens my ears.
I think I have found a balance. I have a timeline in place, but won’t “die” if I don’t make it. I have lived my whole life without structure – from being neglected and roaming the streets pre Mum’s departure, to living with my father and eating fistfuls of sultanas for dinner, oft. I had no structure raising Daniel either, just a sense to survive what happend day upon day upon day. Life – dodgeball: what’s the difference?
So having a structure being my timeline goal: that’s quite something else for me.
I’m trying it on for a change, to see if having a goal can make a difference to the outcome. I don’t even have writing goals in place per week though, as the weeks remain unpredicatable to me. Sure I may aim to write, but then Daniel gets injured at a ju jitsue tournament (early February) and my whole weekend is spent in the hospital with him. It feels my life’s living just does not lend well to structure, plan or goal. So obviously, I have not achieved anything much more than mere survival.
Don’t worry, Aunty Uta – yes I am relaxed. I will get there.
THANK YOU so much for even caring, though
It’s always a pleasure to read your replies, dear Noeleen, You speak so well and what you have to say is always interesting. Don’t worry about structure. I think you achieved already very much indeed with all he blogging and relating to all your blogging friends. And you have made tremendous progress with you book as well. It is good you aim at finishing it this year. If there should be a few more delays, well, this is not the end of the world. I am glad you say you’re relaxed about it now. Just keep writing at your own pace. And all will be well for you. Very best wishes and much love. Yours and Daniel’s Aunty Uta.
Thank you
Deep breath, relax… there’s a conflict somewhere amongst the software. You’ll get it, and we are a patient bunch.
You’d make a great yoga teacher, Nelle!
Am breathing, am now relaxing… because the computer isn’t EATING UP MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIME.
Thank you
You guys are an awesomely patient bunch. I love it!
Noeleen , you fight with iMovie sounds just like my life right now!! Another happy if not slightly disappointing coffee break but hey if it was disappointing it was also promising as we still have the iMovie instalment to come!! Hugs to you both!! xxxxx
Willow, excellent comment (“fight”….) – you’ve inspired me to update in theme of your comment. True
I’m on Daniel’s computer right now, & will do a ‘quickie’ with just exactly your theme expressed. I have slept! I am well again!
I love it when people include Daniel in their ‘hugs’
A virtual hug to you too! Thank you so much for coming by. OMG, I have so much catching up to do, reading around the cyber traps. You’ve hinted at life, hope you are OK. Maybe you can take your life into the local repair shop, like I put my mac yesterday ?
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Aye aye aye wouldn’t that be a great thing The local life repair shop! This week’s offer two for the price of one and next week a fabulous Bog off offer! xxxx again hugs to you and Daniel!xxxxxx
Already Wednesday night here in Australia. Wishing you sweet dreams, dear Noeleen. Don’t worry about wasting time with sleeping. Think how well you’re going to feel after a very good deep sleep! Best wishes for you and and young Daniel! Aunty Uta.
Thank you so Aunty Uta your lovely wishes.
I know! Wed night!
I am now operating from my wee phone as I surrendered my Mac to the service dept. I realize I am in warranty until April – good news I’m covered. Yet, really, why/how can a computer go go Bing so soon after purchase.
I thought ‘imagine losing the novel & so many precious photos on the hard drive… Then I thought, imagine losing ALL in bush fires.
I am fortunate in these days. Blessings
Love and hugs sweety – you deserve it!!!
God Bless ya both!
Prenin.
You’re gorgeous, Prenin. Thanks heaps
Ah, we’ll survive without our laptop a day or two (it’s in the repair shop). I’ll just take over Daniel’s desktop while he sleeps!! But alas, all my work is on ze lappie…
Thanks for coming by. I wonder if it’s so cold for you still. Shudder. Thank mercy, Melbourne is having what is oft regarded as a ‘heat wave’ of sorts, but it would be all the norm in Perth when we were there. I LOVE it.
But every time I think of you, I’m reminded of winter – not for ‘love lost’, mind (!), but just, when I last visited, all that brrrrrrrr…. I’ll swing by soon & see if the sun has sliced that ever-hopeful sliver of silver in its lining yet, promising more rays, summer light and warmth.
Sincere best to you, Prenin
N’n.
Hi hun!
It’s a pain when the hardware goes down!
Mine has worked pretty well, apart from six bad sectors on the hard drive, but I’m saving up ready for when it finally falls over!
Yes, it IS cold today.
It’s 3′C at the moment, but the wind chill has it down to -1′C so I’m not looking forward to going shopping!!!
I’m glad you are enjoying the warm weather though!!!
Yes, we have bright sunshine at the moment, so it is going to be a good day to shop as I won’t be getting wet!
Thanks for the best wishes!
Love and hugs to ya both!
Prenin
Hi Prenin
I love your smiles & hugs and vibe.
I am SOOOOO glad there was bright sunshine today. That must have been stunning. Chill but cool, you know…
Best wishes for you, come easily.
Noeleen, sometimes our best efforts end in frustration; and we have to just go with the flow. It will come together and we will patiently wait. It is always well worth it. You never disappoint.HugsCarrieSent by Carrie the Lady Witha Truck
The Lady Witha Truck!
Oh Carrie, so wonderful to hear you out & about. I look forward to hearing things are still well – that is, can’t wait to visit. I can use Daniel’s desktop (while he sleeps/pre work… but then he WAKES! Mercy, who created this GIANT of a man!!)
Thank you so much for swinging by, letting me know you’re still revving about in that great pick-up, checking in on your likeminded in Oz. I so, so hope you are well. Things turned so well for you. I so much related to your post where you felt, ‘but when will it turn bad/who will take my joy now?/how long will it last?’; figuratively anticipating downfall at every corner we turn.
Prosperity is, well, really something to adjust to, when you’ve been troubled (within let alone without) so long. LONG LIVE PROSPERITY!
I still think of Elisabeth, F’s daughter he kept in that dungeon below the family abode, to disempower to destroy to abuse to control, and the children borne of that dysfunction. I hope she is well and well and well, bless her and her family. Yeah, sure, I’ll ‘survive’ without the laptop…
There’s this thing called Life that tends to inexplicably get in our way when we’re trying to accomplish things. Sometimes we just have to accept that things happen, you know? Don’t feel bad and don’t beat yourself up. As you said, there’s always tomorrow.
Great comment, Lillian, & thank you
– thanks for your patience.
Oh, I know about ‘that thing in life’ ! It’s like hurdles, and when they are in the representation of people, you wonder: did I create this obstruction, this hurdle to my wellness/family wellbeing? And you think, why did I, on some level. And you think…. well, you get the picture. I used to THINK AND THINK!!!
Now, yes, I have accepted, doh! dead end. Right, back out & turn about. I took the mac into a repair shop yesterday in my lunch break (omg, I still can’t believe I did a day’s work with only 2 hours sleep in me… in the old days that would send me mentally off balance). I’m now on my son’s desktop before work. I have inadvertently created backup, this time, in my life! Of course, the reading is in iMovie in the repair shop, but whatever! At least tonight after work I will be able to visit people, subbers. This is the upside
I used to live, LITERALLY, not only thinking ‘there’s no tomorrow’, but desperately hoping, truly deeply hoping, there would be none. But there better be THIS time
Don’t you just love computers?
At least I can try to catch up where I left off before.
Ha ha! Oh MrsDeBoots! I don’t want to pick up where you left off!! But sigh, that be life…
You word ‘computers’ is hyperlinked, do you notice? Also, in my post some words are hyperlink which I did not do myself. Don’t you find that irritating? It is like your comment, let alone my post, has been edited by The Great LookAtMe ‘god’, leading us to their joint in cyberspace to sell whatever. How ANNYOYING.
** Hello world! I did not hyperlink those words in my post! & I don’t appreciate the random invisible editor so doing, to their end… *
Thanks for coming by, for stopping even to comment. And no, I don’t love computers! (but I think that’s what you meant…)
Ha!! Yes!!! That’s exactly what I meant. The only good thing about technology is sharing (honest sharing, F all that Facebook bullshit) and knowing Big Brother is watching you and linking your words is hella annoying.
I’m gonna have to post this comment…I bet Facebook is hyperlinked. I find it funny that my phone automatically capitalized the word Facebook (does it every time) but does not capitalize god..I have to do that myself…
I despise computers. Except for blogs. Love blogs
especially yours!!!
Hey Mrs Deboots – Facebook wasn’t hyperlinked! How bizarre is THAT! ‘computers’ was hyperlinked. Big Bro has gone awry.
Argh!
Heya Julie! I can hear ‘argh’s around the world!! Don’t tell me: been there, done that?
AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!
At least (on Daniel’s desktop) I can go visiting you guys… after work! Right now it’s near time to leave for work. Triple-aaaaargh!
I wondered where that “GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR” was coming from that I have heard rumbling across the sky!!!!
Ha ha – thanks, Colleen THAT YOU HEARD ME! Aye, that were me…
But the laptop is in the repair shop right now so I’ll just have to sit back and read a magazine… ugh! I remember in a receptionist job, one of the Sales Managers said to me, ‘Why can’t you just read a magazine, like the other girl?’ when I was at a loss to do do do more. Hello Rob L, if you’re out there…
I’ll be able to visit tonight, & see what you’re up to, Colleen. THAT’s the upside. I can catch up on you guys and not be consumed by trying to enforce a computer to do what I want it to (ie, to work properly). Soon as Daniel goes to bed, here I come…
WOot WOot! I will be heading to slumber soon myself. It is so interesting to me, that our “worlds” are connected by the words flying through the air.
You catch up while I sleep, knowing my words are under your careful eye.
Love your WOut WOot
You’re so funny, Colleen.
I totally agree with you, the fascination it is about our words flying through the air & our connection thereby. It’s stunning, and amazing. I love it.
Is the moon really over me while the sun over you? Sort of is like different planets.. but only a plane trip away. Freakin’ BIZZaaarrrrre.
I really appreciate knowing you, Colleen. Your book you sent me – it still resounds with me. I still think of it at times. And our collaboration. That was great, wasn’t it?
Hey, I remember now, you said a tutor in school or something might use it? Did that ever happen? Just curious; no problem if not. Maybe Ze School Board thought the strine accent (Australian accent) was indecipherable!!
I love to read your day to day, as you are so thoughtful in the very moment. I hope all is well with you.
Thank you.
N’n.
Hi N’n! It is indeed “bizarre”. Thinking that it was not so long ago that communication with people 100 miles away was costly and time consuming. Now….across the world in seconds…. amazing.
I don’t think the instructor used “our” collaboration. Though I know he discussed it, I don’t know if he ever got to show it or not. I did not think to ask him! I will though.
I appreciate knowing you. You are so honest and upfront, that I feel I learn from you. To keep my eyes open. To not assume that others “know” what to do. And that not everything is the same for everyone. You are a teacher Noeleen.
Thanks for telling me re the collab. I suddenly became curious. Even for it to be a topic of discussion is excellent. For anyone reading this and curious, this video is under ‘things not novel’ and is called ‘I am not ashamed’: Colleen’s words, my reading.
Thank you for your compliment, Colleen. Ah, we’re all human: that’s the base line. I have been not upfront at times. I would do that when I am not sure whether the person I am with could handle it. However, these latter years I am soowning’ what I’ve done, lived, and am no longer shy to tell people what I am thinking. Fancy calling me a teacher, Colleen… I am flattered by that! Thank you
You’re welcome. Thank you for the teachings.
I know what you mean about “up front” and not sure if others can handle it. I write truthfully, but not completely. Just as I am with people. I try my best to be truthful with others. But, still, I do not feel a need to fully “expose” all that I think and feel. Because of concern for how others may accept it, or how I may feel being “exposed”. I still hoard many of my feelings and thoughts.
Can’t remember who or how old I was when I heard it, but some female said that every woman needs to maintain secret what elements she wishes to, as women are known for their mystique.. and loved for it. These words (funny, isn’t it) gave me “permission” to withhold what I knew could not be connected with by the ‘other’.
There is no requirement, in my view, to live transparent to one and all. Why be naked on the world stage? Naked, fully naked, you save for those who are special to you, connect with you – right?
Alternatively, you choose to be naked – permit yourself to be vulnerable – for a cause: stripping all of your views openly and honestly before a mass audience, hoping to expose your truth/message for those who need to/you aim to, hear it. Many in the audience may judge, boo, call you stupid for your choices, actions, a bad mother, a liar (how can you have been like this/lived this/survived it and be smiling now?), an idiot, they would have done different and so on, so on. But none of the jeers matter to me of what people may perceive of me. Two things matter: who I in fact, indeed AM; and have I reached those in the masses who needed to see my vulnerability/message/lack of wisdom, in order to be reachable by me, that I by my take on things, may help them?
Ask me a question and I may or may not answer it – what I will not do, is answer it dishonestly.
This is one of your many strengths Noeleen. Your honesty. Your courage. You, owning your answers and actions. And recognizing the choices we have to do/not do, act/not act, speak/not speak.
Who you are, matters not near as much to anyone, as it does and should matter to you.
Brilliant, you are.
Blush!
(thank you!)
Frustrating as hell.
Denmother
Heya, DenMother
You said it in three. YES!
Thank you for stopping to comment – great for you to come by, for you to still be there
Ah, yes, I’ve realised after a night’s sleep: “hell” it well be, to be without the laptop in the slim slim moments of each day that are “for me”, but at least I slept in a comfy bed, have food, clothes, etc etc. All’s good, I guess…
but creative frustration is HELL! YESSSSS!
Hi Noeleen,
I’ve never used imovie, but I was very frustrated trying to post a funny video of my cat running and sliding on a box. I never did get it to work on WordPress. Your videos are always so well done and layered with content and effects, so I can’t even imagine the Grrrrr factor. Sounds good to take a break for exercise and relaxation in the sauna. Reboot. Reboot.
I hope you have good luck with posting your work next time.
Love,
Amy
Hi Amy
Oh please get that cat video up! I love cats and their various psychoses – they lighten up my day. Do you have anyone who can assist you technically (which is of course better than ‘virtually’!)? Really, I hope you still try because it’s so gorgous, crazy cats.
You would DEFINITELY understand my grrrrr factor, then.
Thank you for your compliments re my videos! I am truly thrilled you see what I wish light passed across, and you see it within my style & errors. Thank you so much
Ah, I rebooted yesterday. I SLEPT last night, I SLEPT. I swear, I was NOT giving up that Tuesday night (having tried on & off since the Saturday) – I was going to publish that video whether mac liked it or not. Hence, in this blind resolve, I did not sleep more than just under 2 hours the whole night… and no reward of creative goal met! My stubbornness does not serve me well, oft.
Love to you Amy & thanks to you, for stopping to comment – letting me know you’re out there
I appreciate that.
Have my son’s desktop, will ‘travel’! My work of course is on the mac, but life goes on, HEY!
Don’t really ‘like’! I feel your frustration and hope you get iMovie working soon.
Ha! I don’t ‘like’ either, Sally!
Thank you so much for stopping to comment. I appreciate that much
The mac is in the repair shop & thank goodness, I’m still under warranty. There’s the goodness then!
If this is the worst of what I must suffer these days, it’s all so good!!
Indeed! Enjoy the rest of your week
Is Imovie that bad?!!
I’ve heard nothing but good about it, though I’ve not tried it much. Only a little messing around here and there.
I use Aperture 3, and if I overwork it it will crash. Somebody told me to delete my cache folder; I did, and it worked.
Hey Nathan
Aye, iMove is ‘that bad’ in my experience. I venture that the ‘only good’ about it, is related to perhaps those who used it, didn’t require much from it. When I took it to the repair guy yesterday & asked him to google ‘error message 108′ in case he could do something magical on the spot, he read that some people found resolve in this problem by removing their words in the movie. !!! That is, removing all the credits & snippets!!! That is, not doing the movie with full creative content!!! That’s just pathetic!
But anyway, it’s with the repair guy. Fortunately I’m under warranty. I’m on my son’s desktop right now, & I have to get me to work… But it was good to open mail & see a comment from you, know you’re still out there. Tonight I will be able to visit you guys & not be consumed by a computer that doesn’t do what you’ve paid it to. That is… as soon as my son is asleep!
Can’t wait to see what you’ve been photographing lately. Did you ever get my comment, a calendar by you would be really interesting? I do mean that.
I’m still here. And I am an avid reader. I should at least hit “like”, when I can’t comment… just to let you know I was there.
Your comment was received, and I’m certain that I replied. I hope
Noeleen, you’re requesting a calendar is too kind. I love hearing that! Maybe I can even do that some day.
If you come to view my photos, on another computer, please make sure that the resolution is at least 1080 or higher. Otherwise my images seem pointless. Trust me, Ive seen them on my old 720 res.
If the resolution on your son’s screen is not very good, then please wait. You know… for the full effect.
Now how haughty does that sound?!!
Hi Nathan
So glad you are not only there but a reader with interest, still… Thank you for saying that: it is wonderful for me to hear.
I am not sure how to make sure the resolution is at least 1080 or higher, but I love that you know just exactly how you wish your art presented. No putting it up on the walls with a hammer and nails for you, if the hammer and nails do not add import. So to speak, you understand.
I won’t be visiting until I have my mac back as my moments on Daniel’s desktop are not as free as my laptop moments. He has to do homework or gaming or Skyping or Facebooking – you understand, all these essential western needs…
Ah, indulgence is so fat. This is why we need to know balance, measure and alternative.
I LOVE your ‘haughty’, for it is SUITABLY haughty! That is, I relate! If I wanted a red book cover but they said they only had crimson, sunset, auburn or plum, I’d tell them to stick their plum up their
Sleep well, Nathan.
x N’n.
ahhh sleep is over-rated…. I never sleep either
Sounds like you accomplished a lot!
Hey Roxi St. Clair
Sleep would SEEM to be overrated, but I slept solidly yesterday, from about 8pm – well, a couple of wakings but that’s all… I’m awake & well now. Life goes on, hey
Some people can do without a lot of sleep. I feel WRETCHED. Are you a midnight creative, who needs no shuteye? Fortune, then. The office job often sucks the LIFE OUT OF ME, leaving me zombie-like, uncreative, void at the end of the day. I used to drink to not acknowledge that, but I’ve taken to yoga lately… and acknowledge that, and get by!!
‘See’ you in time…
I have never had a problem with iMovie. Email me, maybe I can help.
TRULY, Michael?? Have you CHALLENGED iMovie??
Well, it’s in the repair shop anyhow. I took it there lunch time yesterday. It’s still under warranty, hurray! So you needn’t trouble to put your mind there. Thank you so, so much though. You’re so kind.
I’m on Daniel’s desktop right now, pre work…. HOPE YOU HAVE AN AWESOME DAY AT COLLEGE
Yes I have. You’re talking to someone who ran a cable out of the headphone output on an effects pedal into a tube amp just to see what it would do. It blew a fuse, but I got a result, luckily my amp came with a spare fuse. I have also made the mistake while testing out a set of speaker cabs of holding my guitar in one hand that was touching the strings and going to grab one of my cables with the other (the cable had metal housing for the plug) to switch the cable to another speaker outlet on the back of my amp, to say it was shocking would be an understatement. In hindsight “grounded” would’ve been a funnier statement.
It all depends on what your CPU (Processor) and Ram can handle at a time. I have actually caused iMovie to crash, it has even caused my Mac to reboot (My early green screen attempts were part of this). The thing that works for me if I am trying to do a project that takes up quite a bit of time is to do anything that requires effects in segments. That way, when you export them it doesn’t tax your CPU and Ram. Then when all of the effects are done, I open a new project and place the finished videos in the timeline and then add any transitions.
The best places to cut clips is where you have any pauses when you talk, like when you are changing/transitioning from one subject to the next.
Another thing is if you have too many items in iMovie Events (New Project folders) and iMovie Projects (both folders will be in your Movies folder) they eat up memory. Make sure you delete everything, or if you choose to save it move them to an external hard drive. Just don’t delete the iMovie Drop Box folder in the iMovie Events folder. I delete these items when I am finished making a video, especially since I am a stickler on memory.
I had an OK day, right now I am just a bit nervous because our first speech for the class is Monday. I have to use my dad’s computer for one of my online courses because the instructor wasn’t bright enough to make everything compatible.
Oh, Michael – the mental pictures you give of me in your studio setup there!!! xxx !!
Holding the guitar and that cable – YOU’RE HILARIOUS
Did you go out into your lounge room, with your hair smoking and just a bit on fire, your dad watching Australian comedies on the box and your cocky/parrot turned its head on the side, and you looked at him and he at you, then you returned to your studio, sighed, and got on with it? Betya did!
You’re so funny
Truly, I think you’re gorgeous 
Re all your stuff on mac – it makes sense. I did google ‘error 108′ and saw forums etc, but I just don’t have technical mind or patience so, in my lunch break and with only 2 hours of sleep under my seratonin, I went to the mac shop. It’s in their hands. I love that it’s under warranty, but hate that it does such shit when it’s less than a year alive. I am a kind of person to, if the pen doesn’t work any more when I’m writing, toss it over someone’s back fence, under a car tyre passing on a main highway, stab it into the sand. I’ve learned to control myself someone now my “pens” are a thousand dollars, but mercy, this has strained my patience of “technical issues”; as if I had any.
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FIRST SPEECH! Do you know, I reckon with your age (actually, I don’t know your age, but you’re not a teen, I don’t think) – and your experience therefore, I reckon you will give a great speech which opens some eyes of the students (and they might work better; be inspired by seeing someone together with it, not fumbling through it). I do believe you could tell them something they don’t ‘already know’. And you have such a pleasant face and manner, it will go over so well.
I remember when I did Toastmasters (public speaking) I heard about the ‘just picture the audience naked’ to calm your nerves. But I found that so distracting (I mean, what if one of the men had a hard-on in my imagination, or some chick’s nipples were erect) – it just didn’t work for me. So I won’t recommend it. What I do recommend though is for you to know you DO have something to say, you DO have a style of tell, and you actually have a very casual manner which in its very fact of being casual, relaxes an audience and opens their ears.
From the sage bin: my ex-Navy ex-husband told me of a lesson on base he had once which included by the teacher, ‘You know what ASSUME means? You know what it means? It means makes an ASS out of U and ME’.
My ex husband was suitably impressed by this, and trust you will be likewise.
I hope that helped. x !
The electrocution happened when I was a teen, the speakers were cheap junk that the person before me didn’t take care of. No smoke, but ending up on the floor immobilized was loads of un-fun.
I had to do an impromptu speech before this one, the instructor said that my speaker and a few other things were pretty solid (can’t remember the rest because I don’t have the report in front of me). My only thing is that I have to use a visual (powerpoint) presentation, so I sweat things not working properly.
(I thought I told you my age?)
Oh Michael, sorry to have forgotten your age. You must think I have minimal memory capacity, but just,some things go over my head.
I didn’t mean to make fun then, of imagining you coming out of your room with wisps of smoke in your hair. Sorry to be insensitive. I had no idea you were actually immobilised, really badly electricuted. That sounds HORRIBLE.
I like the sound of your instrutor. I truly am so happy for you
It is all good, nothing really bad happened to me. just something I should’ve known better when I went to do it. It was funny.
I know you didn’t mean no insensitivity, I just wasn’t sure if I had told you my age or not. I am absent-minded at times, so I am not always certain.
Relieved, Michael.
The giggle I had, imagining you getting “a jolt” connecting this and hoping that in your creative endeavours there in your studio, and the more sobering image you followed up with, of you being immobilised, were not two of a kind.
Re age – when someone tells me their age it often goes over my head. The number of years in age is a curiosity that comes to mind when you see someone talk, behave, write, what depth of music they produce – but once you learn their age you usually forget it. Unless they’re 3 years old and brilliant, being the exception.
Good luck with the morrow!!