Happy Halloween

Lots to do, but I thought I'd throw up a clip from my son's Halloween parade at preschool this morning. He's standing with his best friend, I think that they coordinated their costumes. They both picked them on their own and the costumes are a little out of character for both of them.

AMC video contest

So, AMC is having a video contest where they're asking for a 1 minute video illustrating your greatest fear. I pulled together some old footage and got a submission in, it can be found here. Go watch my video, vote for it, if you want to you can register and leave a comment. You can watch the other videos too, but I'm mostly concerned about mine.
So week 1 and I entered a video contest, a little cheating because I didn't have to shoot new footage, but I think it still counts towards my 4 contests in 4 weeks.
Well, tomorrow is Halloween, so I should have video and pictures up of that soon. Depending on how crazy my weekend is.

happy trick-or-treating.

Halloween Week

So this week is going to be mostly Halloween prep.

Tonight was Pumpkin carving. I carved an Optimus Prime for my son and a Megatron for myself, as my son gets to pick what goes on the pumpkins. So this years theme is Transformers. The carving was interesting, because my son lost interest when we got to the pumpkin gut scooping, a little too messy for him. And his excitement about watching someone else carve a pumpkin was understandably low, and since he's three he's not allowed much unsupervised knife use nor is he ready to carve a transformer face into a pumpkin. So there was some friction over him not wanting to be a part of the family pumpkin carving. In the end a Halloween episode of Go, Diego, Go! that could be watched from the carving table solved most of the problems.
So now we have to get ready for Friday, which is his day to bring snack to pre-school, and then perhaps three rounds of trick-or-treating. There will be piles of candy by the time we're done, but not for snack at pre-school, they sent home a note asking us not to send in candy for the class.

On a side note, my goal is to enter 1 web video contest a week for the next 4 weeks. Updates here as a meet or miss that goal.

So little free time

So I think my next free weekend at home is in December. Not that I don't have some fun activities planned, but I'm also itching to get started on some video ideas I have, and sooner rather than later is better.

On the plus side my weekends include things like:

Pumpkin shopping at Iron Kettle Farm:

and an another trip to Chuck E. Cheese:

On an unrelated note, I've begun plans to overhaul my home theater and I've found a television I really would like to get. But it's a bit out of my price range (I think it was a 45" LCD) and I'm not sure if it only looked as good as it did because of the demo reel the store was playing on it. Oh well. More thinking is required I guess.

Hopefully my next post will have at least one link to a video contest I've entered.

Family Weekend

So last weekend we went to the zoo in Syracuse and the science center in Ithaca. Pictures and Movies to follow, but I think the camera went to Texas with my wife for her conference.

But I do have more comic pages: