Actually, I thought English was your first language. Did you learn it (English) at home or at school?

Thank you ,Joe . I take it as a compliment. I'm 100 % French.But I spent one year in England . And I practise a lot I love your language.

Ah, that's the best way to learn a language - full immersion in a cultural setting. No hiding at all & sort of baptism by fire! Très bien tvero!

Merci Joe.I love your country too.I've been to Quebec twice before

I think it would be fun to go to another country with a language you didn't know and live there for a year or two. I would totally pick up the accents, I've always been good at imitating the ones I've heard.

I'm going to be "moving" for the third time this year in a few days. I say that in quotes because most of my things are in a storage unit, so it's not a huge task, but I'm not one to move from place to place often, I usually live in an area for many years, so this is very odd for me. It's going to be my very last move before I start on my house, though, in fact I'm going to be building it on the same property as the place I'm going to be staying. Kinda excited, my friends there are the most awesome people in the world. Also working on downsizing, getting ride of material stuff that I rarely ever use, my house will be quite small and I don't want it packed like a rat's nest. 1/3rd less is my goal right now. It's the stuff with sentimental that's hard to let go, but really what good is an item that lays in a box for five or ten years, only so you can pull it out and say to yourself Hey, I remember such and such for minute or two, then back it goes in the box to sit for years again. I want to live and be happy in the now, not cling to times long gone.

Bought one of those quadcopter drones recently with a pretty decent camera and gimbal on board. The remote control part is not too difficult to catch on to but controlling the camera direction/pitch and other functioning in tight quarters and rapidly changing lighting conditions - is a much steeper learning curve. Nevertheless, my first video has been produced! .....

https://vimeo.com/109409958

Thats incredible Joe!

Amazing scenery.

Good work!

Thanks Guys! The model is the DJI Phantom Vision 2 Plus Quadcopter. It's a ball and ripe for macgyverisms too in the software and camera options departments .... if you've been nice & not naughty this year, it's well worth a request to Santa ..... here is an explanation of it's features:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptVJGrOpyok

This is one amazing little toy.

(Writing his letter to Santa)

Hope everyone up in the New York epic snow zone is OK! We've all got an eye cocked towards the Atlantic in case the whole lot comes over to us - takes about two weeks to migrate across, usually...

Very little snow here in upper Illinois right now, but very cold. I still had lots I wanted to do outside before snow and bitter cold.

We use to have season tickets for the Buffalo Sabres and that lake-effect snow seemed to go on all winter long. Crazy. Nothing like this record & recent pileup but there would be no or little snow in Toronto (to the north) and then you would drive south a few hours and - bam - run into this perpetual snowstorm. And they are worried about a lot more roofs collapsing as it all starts to thaw out this weekend.

That was very great video Joe. I have also filmed that kind of landscape videos, but on the ground with my nikon cameras. I bought my first camcorder about month ago, this Canon HF G30. Manual controls, lenshood, focus/zoom ring, tilting viewfinder with big eye cup, two accessory shoes, mic and headphone sockets, north-south zoom rocker all those good stuff.
The built in mic even makes also very high quality sound. Sony released also similar size handycam the CX900 with same kind of features. I love it

So, I'm considering a fashion make-over. But I'm not sure which road to travel: Should I go more into Mac's direction, keep an eye open for a Chevignon bomber (I'm currently wearing the jacket in my avatar, which is not a Chevignon) and get some lace-up boots similar to Redwing's Beckman? Or get a new pair of biker/cowboy boots and a longer leather coat or stick with my Barbour (which is starting to break down)?
I usually wear jeans, khakis, shirts and polos - these would go along with any shoe/jacket combination. Advantage of the first option is, that I wouldn't need a second pair of shoes during vacations in warmer climates, as I could wear the Beckmans with shorts, unlike the other boots.

I just got back from my aunt's place, which is 2 hours-by-car away from here. We welcomed 2015 together, she's 78 y.o. but still strong (and with better memory than mine), and since she lives alone we decided to go there with her. It was good.

I'm not sleepy yet, so guess what I'm going to do now? Watch MacGyver of course, episode High control to be precise.

Considered that in US and other places is still 2014, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.

The club I work in had a massive new years party so I was working and partying at the same time. Great way to see in the new year.

I assume that my post was deleted due to forum error and not because it was somehow inappropriate so I'm gonna post it again.

I have a new hobby I've always loved ice skating and wanted to try figure skating but to be professional figure skater I should have started serious training as a 3 year old. Well I probably did start skating when I was 3 but it has always been just winter fun on a lake. But now I've found figure skating school for adults! Now I go skating 3 times a week. At the moment I'm about as talented as a 4 year old I only know the basics go forward, go backwards and some simple glides. But I'm so psyched! It's a dream come true Last time I was able to stay a bit longer on the ice after the lesson. That feeling when I'm alone in the empty hall just me, music and ice.. it's just so amazing I'd almost forgot how much I really love skating.

Other good news: I've got my first knitting order! I can't believe it! Someone actually appreciates my knitting so much she's willing to pay for it. She saw on Facebook the socks I made for my father for Christmas and asked me if I could make similar ones to her husband. I might never be as good with drawing, writing and music as I'd liked to but at least I can knit

Now the only problem is that I think too much about the value of my work. Because I get payed I want it to be perfect so that the buyer wouldn't think that she's wasting her money. But it's handmade! There's no such thing as a perfect handmade cos there's no such thing as a perfect human. There will always be some little mistakes. I try to keep in mind that the buyer is also a knitter so she knows what it takes to make what she's asking for and she wouldn't buy from me if she could knit the same thing by herself so she obviously appreciates my work. And I've already made those socks once, she'd seen them and asked for similar ones, so all I have to do is repeat the process. But I'm too nervous and lost all the confidence. It feels like I've lost all my talent. It's just made by ME. I mean.. I'm not professional why would anyone pay for something I make? Is it fair to take the money if it's not perfect?

Hasn't Microsoft taken money from consumers for decades that way. That is selling their software and knowing that
it has many bugs in it.

That being said, if you knit me a sock with a hole in the toe ..... then I'm going to knock on your door.

Kidding (sort of) .... go for it, have confidence and do your absolute best ... you can never lose doing things that you have a passion for! .

Don't ask any questions, Duckt tape,just do it .It's great

Thanks guys *takes a deep breath* Yeah I can do it. I just gotta watch some MacGyver while I knit so I won't be worrying so much about some loose stitches

With MacGyver by/on your side ,you can't fail

You'll do fine Duckt_tape.

I had some serious doubts about my current job. I didn't honestly think I could hack it. I gave the job and myself a fair shot, and here I am three months later. I'm doing really well, even thought I still have some doubts sometimes.

Watching MacGyver certain helps in the distracting department.

Duckt tape,

I think that person will probably be perfectly happy with them. They could've got socks ANYWHERE, but thought yours were coolest, so I think that means something.

Home made can't be perfect you say? Well I'm glad you think so because I'm a perfectionist and have never been able to convince myself of that! I'm not that way towards others, but when I feel something I've made isn't up to par it often gets thrown away and I start over. There's been so many art projects and things I've built over the years that may have been fine looking to others, but I didn't feel they were was as good as they could be and I tossed them out. Don't be like me! I get what you're saying when you wonder if what you made is good enough and wonder why someone would want it. I have a hard time even just showing others something I've painted or drawings. I'm very artistic and creative, but not very good, I don't think, and I'd freak out if someone wanted to actually buy something I've made.

Gack! Just deleted a whole paragraph. Oh well I'll rewrite it tomorrow.

I've forgotten exactly what wrote yesterday, but it was something along the lines of this:
If you've compared your knitting to other's work and yours looks close to or better, then don't be worried about it. If the stuff you make is kinda lop sided and falling apart, then you might wanna work on it a while, but I would imagine you're better that. Be sure to post pics for us.

I DID IT *happy dance* Took me long enough as I had lot of problems with my wrists and wasn't comfortable with the other sock so I had to rip it and start all over gain, but finally I got them done. And the buyer was so nice. I was feeling guilty about not being able to knit as fast as I normally do and was sure that she would ask her money back because I was too slow but she just asked me to take it easy, not to hurt my wrists more for her, and was actually surprised about how fast I was. Now I jut hope that the socks will fit and she'd like them.

Wheeljack I so know what you mean. I think I'll never be comfortable enough with my drawings, writings and music to ever show them to anyone. I just don't think I'm good enough. And with knitting I'm only comfortable to show my knittings to fellow knitters who understands what the process is like, and who don't know me in real life. Beside of my parents and brother only very few of my closest friends even knows that I knit and I hardly ever show my works even to them. I only post the pics to closed groups on facebook where I know that no one I know in real life will ever see them. Once noticed that a member of the group had been in same class with me at school and I wondered if I could ever pot anything to that group anymore but then I decided to keep on posting anyway as the girl had been in the group all the time and I just hadn't noticed so she'd probably seen all my previous work anyway.

I'll post you pics tomorrow.

I knit too, Duckt tape - one more of us, one less of them!

Hurray! Good for you Duckt tape!

I can't knit. I can sorta sew. lol Buttons, minor tears, etc, etc. So, kudos to you ladies!

lol Jedi you just made quite fitting unintentional language joke as kudos in some finnish dialects means peace of knitting
I promised to show you a pic so here it is



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Oh, very good!

Great job, Duckt tape!