Wow. What can I say guys–I’m speechless–you all did fab stuff! Peter today (a day late) finally showed me the birthday DVD he’d been slaving over for the past umpty-ump weeks; the one everyone’s been sneakily collaborating over–he wanted to present it to me yesterday, all finished with working chapters, etc., but ran into nasty technical difficulties where it wouldn’t render a section properly (a few bugs to be worked out in iMovie and iDVD, I think). And gotta hand it to everyone: I didn’t guess a friggin’ thing! Mostly to Peter’s wily stratagems and superior paranoia (the “Operation Obelisk” emails were sorted into a folder called “bulk”, two folders deep, just in case), but also to my total and habitual obliviousness.
I don’t want to name individuals since I won’t remember everyone (I feel like an Oscar winner)–thank you everyone for a wonderful gift! Y’all got to see it sometime!!
I’m very sheepish about Laura seeing it a day late, but it was a multi-tasking thing. Remember it was secret. I had hoped that I would have 3-4 weeks to piece the movie together, instead pieces were arriving up until the day we went to the cottage for the Canada Day weekend. We returned from the cottage yesterday and there was only a limited amount of time to create menus and get a burn going. And then the magic of technology fouled up. Sigh.
All the same, Laura was fairly taken aback at the effort everyone put into this. She laughed out loud at every piece, save the tender ones. There were tears for those.
I owe much thanks to many people for helping me with this, and you know who you are. Segment after segment was brilliant; this was far more than I had figured at the get-go. Thank you all.
I still mourn the loss of the mis-recorded, audio-only “Years of Your Life”, by David, Michael and I. In memory, you will sometimes hear one of us suddenly yell “WOODSTO-O-O-OCK!” with a fist thrust up in front of our faces.
I still have the “schedule” of world events, so maybe one day we can re-create the performance. Here’s hoping… 🙂
It was damn funny!
PS, PL&J, bring the DVD to the Watergun Party?
Thank you in advance,
I remain your umble servant,
As Above, So Below