2017-02-03 – Meeting the neighbours

I slept better last night, and feel more “with it” today.

I get busy trying to finish off my script for this week’s vlog about my decision to have Deep Brain Stimulation surgery.  It becomes apparent that I have far too much to say on the matter, and my vlog will end up being 10 minutes long rather than the 4 minutes that I’m aiming for, so I decide to split it into 2 parts and publish part 1 today, part 2 next Friday.

I sort the camera and tripod out, load my script into the teleprompter app on my iPad, and set about filming myself.

I’m completely useless in front of the camera today – fluffing my lines so many times I start to lose my normal good humour.  Then I start having trouble with my voice – losing it mid-sentence, or strangling the ends of my sentences – most annoying!  At the same time, my left leg tremor is going through the roof (probably because I’m getting stressed), and that just adds to my difficulties.

Finally I get sufficient footage to edit, so I load the video onto my MacBook, put all of the equipment away and start editing.  I realise that I’ve missed out (from my script) some details of my assessment for DBS, so, cursing loudly, I get everything set up again, amend the script and set about filming the couple of sentences that I had missed out.  4 takes later, I’m satisfied with what I have captured, so import the newly captured video to my MacBook, put all the equipment away (again) and get on with the job of making a silk purse from a sow’s ear.

I pause, mid-edit, to take the dog out for walk and load the log basket.

By the time my wife returns from work, I have completed the edit, loaded my latest vlog to my YouTube Channel and published it.  Ta-dah!!!!

We are going over to see one of our neighbours this evening – they want my wife to quote for some soft furnishings.  We have been on friendly terms with them since I bought the house in the village, but we haven’t really got to know them beyond saying “Hello” in the street, or chatting when we bump into each other when walking our dogs.  We take some flowers and a bottle of wine, and have a very pleasant evening (during which very little attention was given to soft furnishings – my wife is going back to measure up at a later date) and we emerged shortly before midnight having set the world to rights, demolishing 2 bottles of wine in the process!

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