damn you, microphone...

Something is wrong with my equipment, and we think it's the microphone. We spent around an hour testing it out with the camera and calling my advisor repeatedly and trying to troubleshoot over the phone. I'm meeting with her on Monday, so she can check it out in person, and we'll go from there. Pissed off, but not destroyed. It is what it is. Getting new equipment will hopefully be easy, but we'll see.

In our little test trial of using the camera's mic, rather than a lav mic, Rob talked about his beloved dog, Eddie. Hearing his name so many times, we heard Eddie come ambling down the hall way and eventually barking like crazy, wanting to know what was going on.

Rob's mother gave me a bunch of old photo albums of Rob as a kid - I'm going to search through them this week and scan a bunch. Let me tell you: he was the freaking cutest kid ever. It is ridiculous.

We got groceries earlier in the night, and on our way back to the car, a homeless man approached us, asking for money. Rob had to stop and put down the bags so he could fish out his wallet. The man seemed shocked, but happy. After he gave him some bills, the man said thanks, and then turned to me and said "Have a happy new year, miss. Your husband is a very nice man." Too funny.

I made a post on the Bridge 9 message board advertising the doc and asking for photos and such. If anyone knows of any other message boards I should post to, please let me know.
I'll have to keep checking up on it periodically to make sure it doesn't get forgotten. I want the mods to sticky it, but I doubt they will.

Here was our "proof of existence" photo, haha.



Hopefully the technical problem will be resolved as of Monday, the end of the week by the latest... fingers crossed!