What I Did Instead

[Sailor Steve]

Well, it's taken me a month of pain and toil, but I finally got it done:

WHAT I DID INSTEAD!

Being an account of the activities that kept me from the 2009 SubSim meet in Copenhagen.

I really did want to go to Copenhagen, having been there when I was 12 (which was before a lot of you were born, being 1962 and all). But as the time grew close it looked more and more like I wouldn't be able to come up with the money. Couple this with my friend Charles "getting the band back together" last May, and when he asked if we could play a club date on September 16 I said "Sure. Why not."

Of course everybody was devastated when I posted that I wouldn't be going to the meet (yeah, right! Like anybody even noticed.), but when I posted a link to the band's website http://www.myspace.com/monkeyrumband everybody said it was cool...even Neal.

So we played at Liquid Joe's, here in Salt Lake, and it went pretty well. And a friend filmed us. And I tried and tried and tried to get the video onto my computer, and tried and tried some more to find a video editing program that would work for me. The only one I found that would work left a watermark on the picture (right in the center!) unless I paid for the activation key. I did so, and then had to hassle with the fact that it wanted to go online to do it, and I don't currently have home internet. Luckily they had a contingency plan, and they sent me a program that would grab my computer's ID number. After yet another trip to the library they sent me a little program that told the original program it was okay, and after four weeks of trials and tribulations I was finally able to get it up on YouTube!

So, now you get to see what I did while I wasn't in Copenhagen.



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