Busy Morning Again

I started another blog called Video Pairings.
I had started putting them in this blog
but decided they would be better separate.
Once we watch a movie I blog about it here.

Randy has already been up and out shoveling.
We probably got 3 to 4 inches since yesterday.

I peeled and cut up potatoes and carrots.
They went into the crockpot with the pot roast.
This is only my second crock pot experience.
We are using 3 pound angus bottom round roast.

Graphic Transparency

It's been a long time since I made graphics transparent.
I found some images I wanted to put on my website.
I loaded up Paint Shop Pro which I have not used in years.
I have forgotten how to turn a graphic transparent.

So googled for instructions to do so:

Ehow: How to Create a Transparent GIF using PSP
Web Developer's Notes: Creating Transparent Gifs
Absolute Cross: PSP Tutorial on Transparent GIFs

In general: Jasc Paint Shop Pro Tutorials

Week ending 02-02-08

I did not blog last week but wanted to mention some things that we did do partly for our own benefit so we remember what we did when. I tried a few new recipes. The first new recipe was Macaroon Cookie Cake, a chocolate cake with coconut topping made with pre-melted chocolate. It was from an OLD cookbook my mother had given me from the sixties, a Pillsbury Cook Off compilation. I asked my mom if that ingredient still existed today and found that it did. Me thinks I will use it again; it beats melting chocolate squares. The second new recipe, Potato Bacon Casserole, was my first use of our crockpot. It went well enough. The original recipe called for hash browns but I replaced it with potatoes thinly sliced. Only slight problem was that even after cooking for 6 hours the potatoes were somewhat hard. We both did like it so will be doing it again with precooked potatoes. I will be backdating the recipes a little later and adding links in this post.

If you know us you know we love movies. I was still a little out of it health wise so spent even more time than usual watching movies. I'll list by genre things we or just I watched. Later I may backdate entries to expand on some of these so look for last weeks entries a little later. The sci-fi picks included Taken (mini series), Lost Room (mini series), Alien Nation (original movie), and Stargate (original movie). Musicals watched Babes on Broadway, Broadway Melody of 1936, Broadway Melody of 1940, Ziegfield Follies and Words and Music. Comedies including romantic comedies included My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Repli-Kate, Just Like Heaven, My First Mister, Music and Lyrics and The List. The latter is the best romantic comedy I have seen in a long time.

During the last week we also found imdb's My Movies feature. It's your personal subset of their database. We each created an account over there. Randy is inputting all our movies and tv shows. Right now he is doing the DVDs and later the VHS. I am keeping track of what movies we actually watch. I have it set up by genre according to us (not imdb). Some of these will be linked on our website. Needless to say we are keeping busy.

Coding html

Cathy showed me how to do some coding for some of our website pages. I entered a bunch of data (3 movie lists - AFI Top 100 (1998 Original), AFI Top 100 (2007 Updated) and Best Picture Oscars) and manuevered some of her coding to set it up.

It was pretty cool.