Day 515 of 1000

History camcorder for Grandpa Milo and Grandma SarahI am sitting in Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport waiting to catch a plan to Portland.  I am very excited to get started on our history recording project.  I walked out of the house without the big kit I had prepared for the project, so I stopped by Fry’s Electronics in Phoenix and picked up a little Samsung HMX-QF20 camcorder.  It stores videos on an SD card, then transfers them via WiFi to wherever you want.  It does everything we want to do, is 1/4 the size of the other stuff, and way easier to use.

I am going to put up a little sign in Dad and Mom’s room explaining how to use the thing and how to load the results up to a dropbox account so we can start accumulating into something that is interesting to watch.  I have picked out two things I want to record while I am there and will work out the bugs in the process with those items.  Dad has a story from when he was in the Army in Alabama that had a big influence on me because he told it to me at a time when I was pretty down and out.  It says something about who he is.  As for Mom, I am going to try to talk to her about the influences in high school that made her decide to go to pharmacy school at Oregon State.

First things first, though.  We need to go out and buy some SD cards because that is what the camera uses to record the video.  We also need to buy a little tripod so we can have a stable image during the interviews.  We invite anyone who has some kind of interview they would like to do to pop me an email.  As soon as I get the procedure together, I will send it to whoever asks.

Hopefully, I will be able to post the first videos here in short order.