Hello, Hello!

Hello, my little chickadees! I am *so* glad to be home again. Not that I didn't have a fabulous time--we did, indeed. It was grand, and fun, and inspiring. But it's good to be home, back in the office and the studio--although the latter is, alas, something of a disaster zone. Look:

Is that not pathetic? It's full of the stuff I unpacked and have to put up, stuff I bought (leather, thrifted clothing (more about THAT later, oh, my!)), stuff that was piled on top of Sewing Machine #3. Just a ton of stuff that is, frankly, overwhelming to me, and I have to deal with it soon. Like, today.

Plus the reason I quit posting photos here and videos over at CreateMixedMedia.com during Art Unraveled is that the MacBook got full. Really. I didn't know that could happen, either. I thought it was iPhoto and the 13,000+ photos on there from the Year of Art Retreats last year, so I exported and deleted like mad and got it down to just a little over 8,000 photos, sitting there every morning in the hotel room, gritching and gritting my teeth and hitting "delete, delete, delete," but I read today that iPhoto should hold way, way more than that. Like on this iMac, it should hold 250,000 photos. Not so many on the MacBook, but more than 10,000.

Yikes.

So now I'm thinking it's iMovie and all the video I've put on there, and I've got to go through that, delete what I don't want to keep, export the rest to the external hard drive. And you know THAT'S going to take some time. Ick. I hate that kind of stuff. I wish I had someone else to do it for me, but then I wouldn't be deciding what to keep and what to ditch. The EGE and I are going to work on this, though--I'm going to let him use the Macbook when we're not traveling, and he'll learn how to manage the photos, so once I figure out how to do that and show him how to do it, things should be better. I.e., we shouldn't be on a cool trip and run out of room to upload stuff. That kind of sucked, you know?

I have stories, and there are more (many, many more) photos that I have to get from his cameras, so I'll post again soon. I hope. First, though, I've got to tackle this.

Think calming thoughts for me, please.