Hey guys, I wanted to touch-base on what’s been going on way over here in Malaysia. I could end this post pretty quickly just by saying, “Not much.” I don’t think though that would be very interesting for you, and not very therapeutic for me. So sit back and buckle up because I’m going take you on a very slow methodical rant about my last few days. :)

So the day is getting close to when I leave KL and I’ve got that stuck in my mind like a day of execution, “Only ten days left, only eight, it’s the 30th only one week to go, oh crap I’ve got to get ready to leave and I wanted to take some photos.” If you get what I mean, it’s like this cliff that I’ve been walking towards and now I’m about to jump. :) Okay, now I’m being dramatic. I knew I was going to leave some day and I honestly believe that I’ve stayed too long as it is, and there have been some times that I’d get excited about finally going home. I just know that there is going to be a lot of work to get back into a stable life once I arrive.

Professional development has kind of stalled for me lately. I was working on the book almost exclusively– there were times I’d pop open Premiere and start playing with some footage trying to get a direction that I could go with it, but I seemed to just slow down a little. I did start a new intro for a video about Singapore. I had some footage of a guy dancing on green screen so I wanted to see if I could get that to work in some way. I came up with something kind of funny, and although I like it now (kind of) I don’t know if it will make it into the final product.

I have been trying to clean out my hard drives the last week or two. It’s been a mind-numbing process that I hope I don’t have to do again for some time. I mentioned in an earlier post that I have 11TB of data on six external hard drives, well I don’t know what I was thinking but I’ve found the same folder sometimes in most of the HDs. Most of these duplicates are images and footage so I don’t want to just delete them without checking to make sure that it’s not the only copy. To give some context to the magnitude of this, I was partitioning a 1TB drive (the smallest I have) that was about two-thirds full,and it counted about 1.2 million files on it. Geez! 1.2 million files. Even if just 10% of them are actual real files that I need to check before I delete them, that leaves 120,000 files I have to look at. The last few nights I’ve been working on the drives until about 2am, and I’ve pretty much burned myself out by now. Even with the software that I use to check for duplicates it may be months before the drives are cleaned out.