Be careful what you ask for... if you're mean enough... you just may get it. :) The other day... all grumpy 'cause of all the ATV's, dirt bikes, dogs and people... disrupting MY solitude... they are my woods you know :) ... I quipped; "Maybe the weather will be really bad... and it'll keep 'em quiet!" ...
... yeah well...
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| *29 May 2011 Morning Snow in the Utah Mountains* |
I've been struggling with the new Video camera... got all cranked up and grumpy yesterday... and fired off an email to the outfit that sold me the camera... Chewing them out along with the manufacturer for promoting all the virtues of a camera... and NOT warning that it was not compatible with a great portion of the video software that a lot of it's potential customers would be using...
Didn't expect to receive any word back until Tuesday at the earliest... Holiday weekend and all...
Uh... Wrong again! I got an email back in a Very short time... :) I gotta tell you... the guys at SportHitech have a solid and shiny understanding of Customer Service...
Andy, the guy I "spoke" with... through several emails back and forth on the Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend... Took good care of a grumpy, short tempered, frustrated... bad weather "Trailer Bound" old biker cowboy... fighting his way through the psychotic gyrations of dealing with High Technology! :)
In amongst all that confusion and frustration, we thought it would be a good idea to just get out of the rig... and take a drive to clear out the cobwebs...
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| *Doesn't look cold and windy does it? :) * |
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| *Near the Red Canyon Visitor Center* |
That Ol' Heron tried for the fish in the pond... for a little while... but it finally decided it couldn't tolerate all the people close around... and went to look for a less crowded smorgasbord.
Feeling better, from just getting out and around... We rolled back to camp... still "frustrated" with my Technology struggle...
When we got back to the rig is when I accidentally discovered the solution to my Video woes... is a relatively simple thing... and that the good service from SportHiTech is actually... Excellent care...
I discovered, mostly by accident, that my "secondary" laptop...a lil' 10" Acer I use on motorcycle trips... Will Load and edit video clips from the Drift Camera... The difference? the version of Windows Movie Maker that is loaded into windows 7 and Windows XP...
So... I fire off another email to Andy... and... in short order, get a reply with a link...
In fact... though I've not been able to get it downloaded due to the poor signal I've got in this camp... (I'm going to have to look into one of the "directional" antennas Jack mentioned) Andy, took the time, during our email back and forth, on his holiday weekend, to hunt up and send me an email link to a version of the Microsoft program I need to make my main Dell Laptop (an XP) model able to handle the video clips...
One day... I'll learn to NOT get so frustrated and fired up over the lack of reliability in modern technology...Yep... on the very same day that the wind stops blowing in Wyoming...
Still... Waiting on Spring
Brian
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2 comments:
I find it hard to patient with all the technology. Good luck with that.
Hope the snow keeps the crowds down. We might get some tonight.
Lordie Brian, I am either gonna rust or freeze, not sure which it is. I am used to the good old southern weather where it actually gets in the 90's during the spring and going on summer. We ain't seen anything near 90 in two weeks. Rain for 3 minutes, sunny for 10 minutes, then here comes the rain again. Highs near 50 and lows in the low 40's or high 30's at night. When is the weather gonna warm up. Loving the trip so far. We are in Portland and headed for St. Helens in two days. See from your post that you are having weather problems too. We did get snowed on too one time. This western US has some amazing country to see in it.
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