June 1, 2009
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Mike's Video Blog #10: My Little House
Mike's Video Blog #10: My Little House (Parts 1 and 2)
Mike's Video Blog 10.1: "My Little House Part 1" (11 min. 34 sec.) Shot over a four month period. Assembled 5/30/09. After a nine month absence, Mike's Video Blogs returns with the story of Mike's move from his rented house of 14 years to "My Little House", a double wide mobile home bought in February. Mike takes us on a tour of the house after getting settled, and begins to show what he plans to do with the garden and lawn.
Mike's Video Blog 10.2: "My Little House Part 2" (12 min. 51 sec.) Shot over a four month period. Assembled 5/30/09. The continuation of Mike's tour of his new mobile home continues in Part 2, showing the progress made on the rock bed, and ending with an up close look at the main curio cabinet in the Betty Boop Museum.
DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY: Since I'm offering almost a half hour of video footage on this post, I won't waste time with much commentary. Suffice it to say that this video was four months in the making. Beginning with a drive to the mobile home park in early February, after I was approved for the loan, then continuing after I moved in to my new place, I took the camera out at various times, shot over an hour of footage, and assembled the video over this past weekend, as my last major project prior to going in for my "hip revision" surgery to repair my broken hip replacement.Even though I only planned a short "tour", I shot far more footage than needed, as usual, so this video blog, like all my others, is highly edited. I always attempt to make smooth camera moves, and I narrate while I'm shooting, sometimes memorizing passages, and sometimes, as in the prologue, reading from a "teleprompter".
I've planned on presenting this video blog for some time now, but didn't make the time to shoot the "connecting sequences" till this weekend. The "green screen" prologue was shot early Saturday morning, and although the placement of the masking looked okay in preview, I notice that the mask was feathered too low over my bald spot, and so it looks like the top of my head is semi transparent. It took most of Saturday to assemble Part 1, and Part 2 was finished on Sunday, with uploading taking most of the day Sunday, so I certainly couldn't redo the prologue in time to get the whole thing online and presented this morning. Also, these are YouTube streams, cause I didn't want to go through the trouble of uploading to Xanga, which takes longer, and sometimes fails in the middle of the upload. Besides, Xanga doesn't have a "starred" page for videos anymore, and the YouTube streams are higher quality, affording a more detailed look at "my little house."
OPERATION UPDATE: I'm definitely going in for my "hip revision" (new term I heard from my doctor) at 7:30 am this Wednesday. The actual operation will be at about 10am, and the doc tells me he's going to have all the "parts" assembled before him. Best case scenario: 3 hours operation, only replacing the socket with no problems, and the doc gets to pick up his daughter at school at 3pm. Worst case, (well, let's not be so negative), a less than best case scenario would have the operation lasting over 6 hours, with total replacement of both the socket and the legbone, and the doc won't get to pick up his daughter. Let's hope he's able to pick up his daughter, OK? I'm pretty sure I'm going to authorize the "epidural anaesthetic", in which a catheter is inserted into the epidural above my spine, delivering medicine to deaden sensation in the lower part of my body. According to the anaethesiologist, I will suffer far less pain in the hours immediately following the operation than I did 16 years ago with a morphine drip. My stay in "Hospital Hotel" will be from 3 to 5 days. In the meantime, I'm presenting lots of video footage for you to watch, comment upon, and recommend. "See" you all in about a week! MFN/ppf
Comments (60)
I know several people who have had this particular operation and they all say about the same thing, that they wished they had it done earlier. The visible difference in them is nothing short of amazing!!! You've already been through the worst part,and that is the pain and immobility you have endured. After going through a short "down time",you can enjoy being a whole new you!!! Keep your eyes on the prize,Mike. You'll be up and at 'em in no time. Then your neighbors can watch your dust!!
Good luck, we'll be thinking about you. Hugs and prayers, Sandy.
Best of luck with the surgery. My mom preferred the epidural to the morphine, also. (she has had knees and back, among other things - she's just full of titanium)
will be praying for you this next week! and will watch this video while you're gone. sounds like yr doc is all prepared!
happy recovery time!
my gosh, you got a lot of stuff! nice, cozy house you got there....you'll be up in no time and we will get to hear all about it! success in your upcoming fix...
Will be waiting for you, and no worries, no eulogies
Awesome Queen poster, Mike! Best of luck!
Ryan
Cool! This will give me something to look forward to as soon as I get home from work tomorrow. I can't watch now because it's past my bedtime LOL
Hi Mike,
I will have to wait until tonight before I can watrch your video....I am looking forward to see what you have done with your new home.
Good luck with the hip revision. I hope all the parts fits when your hip is reassembled.
Best regards,
Jurgens
Very cool. It really is like a trip into your mind in a lot of ways.
Rest in peace to your friend Joel and good luck with the surgery.
Good luck with your surgury Mike! Be safe.
Just wanted to let you know that I'm praying for you this morning! Hope the Dr. can pick up his daughter and take her out for ice cream!! Thanks for posting the video. Nice to see that your litle home will be a comfy and cozy place to recoup. You've done so much work, and it shows and looks great.
It is Wed. 8 AM here in Illinois and I think that is 5 AM in CA. I will have you in my thoughts today. I enjoyed your video so much and thought how I would enjoy living there! If ever there is a nonstop flight to CA, I might come out and meet you. I have met James when I was in San Diego three years ago, but I am much more fragile now than I was then. I did not know about the epidural. I had the morphine drip and over used it so that I had nightmares that were very frightening. For my age I recovered very quickly. I should have my knee done, but I am a coward and will just keep it as is.
I am wishing a quick recovery for you, Mike. May you have a gorgeous female as an occupational therapist. I had a huge black man with white hair and I just loved him and vice versa. I went back to see him a month ago and he hugged me!! Since he is very dry witted, I took that as a compliment.
Be well, be happy and feel blessed
Love
Bev
I enjoyed the videos thanks for sharing!
Also, if you get a chance later would you please stop by my site and leave Trev a get-well message?: http://nidan.xanga.com/703700436/still-sick/
Hi Mike! Your operation should be succesfully over by now, and I wish you a speedy recovery. Your vids were fun to watch, you have made a very nice home for yourself, now it's time to rest and enjoy.
Just stopped by to check on you. Hoping you'll be able to update soon and let us know how you are
:wave: I stopped in to check on you. You said your stay would be from 3-5 days. This is the 5th day, but I realize you might not be back online yet.
I have watched part of Part I of "My Little House", but didn't get all of it in. Will have to return for it & for part II, but I may have time before you are ready for your next post.
I pray that the surgery was a success and that the results will be as good as others report who have had the same procedure.
~~Blessings, prayers 'n cheers :goodjob:
Checking in on you again... it's been 9 days, and I really, really hope you're healing ok! And, hoping you'll check in here soon and let us konw how you're doing.
:wave: Mike, I really enjoyed the videos. Your little house truly reflects you. Considering that you still had not had the hip revision, you did a lot of physical labor. It looks great for your efforts, inside and out.
Love how you have Betty all through the living area. If I could have afforded one of the Betty Boop figures I saw at the beach last summer, I would have sent it to you. They were almost life sized (so you can understand why I didn't get one). She could have stood in your living room to greet you when you get home every day. (The lady in the store wouldn't even let me take photos. :rolleyes:)
Regarding those refrigerator magnets: How do you not end up putting reminders and such under them? I have a lot of them, but when I put them on the fridge, the fridge gets cluttered. Yours look so neat.
I'll read ahead and see how the revision went.
~Faith
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