Final Cut Express

I wonder where the Saga of Jack Part 2 went? It posted OK, but the picture wouldn't load so I made an arch little comment about the concerned engineers of blogspot and my blog disappeared.
I stayed up all night with Final Cut and finally mastered it, or mistressed it. Actually neither. I've learned to do some things that work with it, but one thing I can't do is get a decent DVD of my movies. Either they herky jerky along like video coming through my 56 modem, or the quality is as bad as a seventh generation copy of a VHS tape. There must be a way. And I will find it.
Got stopped for speeding on my way back from the dentist in Juarez. I was going quite fast and I didn't make any pathetic attempts at charming the cop but he didn't give me a ticket. It was late because we spent time in El Paso admiring some of the brilliant architecture and we went into a hotel to see the stained glass ceiling and were waylaid by a nice old survey taker. There were some quite astonishing Picasso numbered lithographs of nude women seen from unusual angles on sale there for 12000. Very clinical for West Texas tastes I thought. That cowboy all wrapped in white linen might have fancied them......
The picture was taken one morning a few years ago when I was driving home from work. I had a nice little Olympus point and shoot. I dropped it a few weeks ago and the sliding cover jammed. I use my video camera for photographs. It has lovely zoom optics, but 1.7 mps is a little inadequate. A decision must be made....
I just received a copy of the final and perfected (more or less) edition of My Book, kindly produced through Lulu by my dear son. I am now a published writer. The woman next to me at the dentist waiting room is also a published writer. Her book is called Vegetarian Melting Pot. Ethnic recipes carried out without meat and with Xyletol instead of sugar and fake butter. I guess she is aiming at the diabetic market. I looked at some of the recipes and decided they were not for me, even though I am a vegetarian most of the time. I always thought Xyletol was poisonous... I'm sure Xylene is. We used to put it in our cigarette lighters when we were kids.