As far as the streamed video is concerned -- well, it's really pretty cool. Over the weekend, the Village Players put on The Importance of Being Earnest, with a good number of our students being involved. Later today, our kids in Kathleen O'Mara's drama class are going to be putting on Shakespearean scenes. Well, Kathleen very much wanted to have the performances videotaped (is it still called videotaping when you're using a digital camera?) and made available online for parents to see. Which I think is an excellent idea as well.

So, we're doing it. Conversion of the files to the streamed Quicktime is happening right now, and other such work is being accomplished even as we speak. I love public domain theater. It simplifies everything.

Ultimately, we're going to do a lot with video, so it'll be pretty cool to have the streaming set up to begin with. I can foresee a day when Commencement is streamed live for family members to see when they can't make it to Wolfeboro. Or a day when the Homecoming game gets sent out to Alumni who can't make it. Or Coffeehouses sent out for the world to see.

Of course, there will likely be uses of the streamed video where our students get to make fart jokes, too. We are a secondary school, after all.

I'm thinking it's time to break out the humidifier. I woke up with a headache I think was born of being awfully dry. Nothing says "winter's coming" like the need to actually put water into the air because the air doesn't put enough in on its own.

The problem is, it's nigh impossible to get the lock on my humidifer to open, so to refill it I have to stand there like an idiot, keeping the valve open with my finger while some water dribbles into it. This isn't the most fun I've had in the wintertime. Of course, the most fun I've had in the wintertime involved a pretty girl, sheepskin and some mulled hard cider, but that's another story.