May 8, 1986: Preschool circus at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church basement in Traer. Event #1 on family videotape #1. The church building has been expanded since then, but this is how I remember the basement, from preschool to Scout meetings.
May 11, 1986: Ruth Lyons’ house in Goldfield, just before moving to Traer, and our car.
I digitized this video footage, which now takes place closer to the beginning of the interstate highway system than the present day, in 2010. I am now up to nearly 2,000 individual recordings, representing about that many family events, and just got into editing the year 2000. There are more than 50 hours of videotape from 2000 and 2001 apiece. In fact, my main issue now is getting those done to free up space for recording more on the hard drive (and finding the time to do so). Yes, I’m very slow at this.
Fifteen months ago, the World’s Best Peripheral stopped being sold in the U.S., and one week before I needed to re-up a subscription for TV listings, the software was sold to another company. The most recent version of the software is needed to continue with that, and I gave serious consideration to forgoing listings if I had to in order to continue digitizing tapes. Happily, my situation appears to be resolved with minimal inconvenience.