I was going to do a video blog post, because all the cool kids are doing it, and because my spiffy new digital camera will take video. But it was too hard to figure out. I couldn't tell how to do it by looking at the camera, and the quick-start guide referred me to the big instruction booklet. That told me to do it by pressing a series of buttons, only some of which - but not all - appeared to exist on my camera. The pictures in the user guide had arrows pointing to buttons in places that I did not seem to have any; one of which, for example, was helpfully identified as "Button Two" but I can tell you, neither the word "two" nor the numeral 2 appears anywhere on my camera. Then when I thought I had it FINALLY figured out, what I got was a series of blurry still photographs of my feet (which, hey, there may be a market for that, particularly on alt.net sites, but not what I was trying for).

When I saw that instead of a video, I had blurry pictures of my feet, I got frustrated and put the instructions away and set the camera aside. I get frustrated very easily, not when I'm doing something that I know from the outset is going to be difficult or challenging - for that type of thing, I'm pretty patient and easy-going, but when I try to do something that ought to be very easy, but totally isn't, it takes very little to discourage me. So the bad news is no video today, but the good news is no photographs of my piggy-toes either (I deleted them. The photos, not my piggy-toes.).