I’ve been so busy, tired and just plain confused to even think about writing for a while.¬ I have “some” free time, so I thought I would vent.
I had a chance at really making my mom & pop operation a real business!¬ Indiana University requested I give them a bid for a HUGE DVD transfer job.¬ It was going to be 250 or 500 DVD’s.¬ Luckily I had some inside information because my wife works there.¬ I tried to undercut everyone, which I think I did.¬ But in the end, the company who produced the video to be transferred received the job.¬ Better luck next time I suppose.¬ It’s nice to be considered though.¬ If I could only get my foot in the door.
Business has taken another one of it’s on again cycles.¬ My first customer had me transfer 19 VHS tapes, another co-worker wanted a tape transferred onto 2 DVDs, one in NTSC (American TV standard) and the other in PAL (a different TV standard).¬ It was a very interesting job.¬ Now the person who sits directly across from me wants me to transfer 12 VHS-C tapes into 3 DVD’s.¬ Something is better than nothing, I just hate this feast or famine stuff.
Then I had a slight computer melting problem.¬ For some unknown reason, a power connector to my video card sparked, and melted the connector.¬ Luckily a local computer shop gave me a pigtail to replace the connector and I’m back in black.¬ With as much DVD transfer and ROX work I’ve been doing, I’m seriously pondering replacing my case and upgrading to a dual-core processor.¬ From what I’ve read and researched, it would be a seamless upgrade.¬ The benefits would highly outweigh the costs.¬ For example right now it takes 2+ hours to render a ROX episode.¬ I could cut that time down to a little bit more than an hour with a dual-core processor.¬ So we’ll see I guess.
I got some interesting news today.¬ “ROXFAN” sent me an email saying he had copies of episodes 8&9 of ROX.¬ He said they are in decent shape.¬ Hopefully I will be getting a copy soon.¬ Maybe season one will get done before Christmas?