The other day I mentioned my New World Order ID. During the week, I saw a news story related to that. Kentucky is having compliance issues, and visitors to Fort Knox with Kentucky IDs will no longer be allowed entry without a defense department escort. The same applies to visitors from other non-compliant states. The article is short and is followed by a list of alternative IDs.
I posted a while back about some anti-aging treatments that were close to human trials that would delay aging and let us live to 120. There's a new treatment that could actually reverse aging. It would be groundbreaking, but it's not available yet and shouldn't be for some time. It works in mice, though. That's awesome. Maybe we'll be able to get one that slows aging to get us by until the age-reversing one becomes available. I can't wait.
Remember the blog a while back in which I talked about getting a 3G mobile hotspot, because my internet goes out sometimes and prevents me from posting a blog or checking email, etc.? I almost had to use it. Last night my connection went out, forcing me to call my ISP. They assured me it would be fixed within 24 hours. They were right. It got fixed some time today. While I waited last night, I got the hotspot out. I charged it when I first received it in June and put it back in the box. After all those months, it still had nearly a full charge. It took fewer than five minutes to hit full. Color me impressed. Ironically, I've been thinking lately that the internet hasn't gone out since I bought it, and I needed to charge it and activate it to learn exactly how it works in case it ever did.
Church was cancelled Wednesday night, so I made a Bible study video I intended to post to YouTube. It was a little over twenty minutes. I made a video last year that was more than double that length, but it wouldn't render at 1080p for some reason I couldn't figure out. Uploading it was no problem. This new one rendered just fine at 1080p. However, the final file size was 1.95GB. At my slow connection speed, that's impossible to upload. Even 720p is out of the question. I rendered it at 480p, which was 356MB. That still takes hours to upload. Suddenly, I see why so many videos are only 480p or are very short. Hmm. Either I need to make short videos, or stick with low resolutions.
The green screen effect didn't work in the video. I had lines and some distortion over myself. I'm going to have to re-record it for that and to make it shorter. I'm not sure why the effect didn't work. Perhaps I was too close to to the screen and had too much reflected light. Or maybe the posts of the metal shelf in that room were reflecting green lines onto me. Or both. I'm going to stand farther away next time and possibly cover that shelf. However, the proof copy for the next book is here. The video will have to wait.
I'm going through the paperback of The Calling of Aethan Lightbringer. I suppose that's a decent title. No more of that Book2 nonsense. Book3 will be something similar, I'm sure. Checking a paperback is different than going over it on a computer screen. Formatting problems that don't show onscreen show up in a hard copy. Double spaces at the end of a line, for instance. A word I used twice not just in the same page or the same paragraph but in two consecutive sentences. I did that in the first two lines of the book and never caught it until I saw it in print! Ugh. I'm seeing little things so far. Nothing major. Everything is still on track. The goal is to get the pre-order up early next week. The proof copy has a quick and dirty cover that's not the final. It was just easy to order and ship it that way. It may or may not show up in the pre-order graphic at first. Do not be alarmed if you see an orange cover. It shall not stand.
Have a great weekend.
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