Been a busy couple of days here in Daytona Beach. Yesterday I drove up to St. Augustine to have lunch with an ol
d friend. Dan Weisenburger and I served together on the USS Newport News back in the 1960's. We both worked in the ship's Engineering Log Room during my second deployment to Vietnam. I was the office supervisor and he was one of the two young men who worked with me. Dan now works as a Realtor in the Jacksonville area and we have reconnected via the ship's web site. We met up at The Conch House restaurant where we had a great lunch and spent a couple of hours catching up on each other's lives since we last saw each other 42 years ago.Today was a day to spend on the beach. The weather was beautiful, in the 70's, without a cloud in the sky. Ron Rivoli decided this would be a perfect time to go down to the
beach, which is only a block from his 
house. We decided to drive down since he keeps all chairs and other beach stuff in the back of his VW Bus. Daytona is the only beach I've been to where you can drive your car right down on the beach itself. After we got down there and set up it was time to just relax in the sun. After a little while we were joined by Kay and the two of them played "Paddle Ball" out on the beach. Later in the afternoon Kay's brother-in-law arrived from Louisville. (Kay's sister and brother-in-law own a house just a few doors down and spent their spare time down here.) In the evening we headed to the Our Deck Down Under for a great seafood dinner. This place is located almost directly under the bridge that goes over the inland waterway and back to the mainland.Tonight was a completely new experience. I joined Ron & Kay, along with their
producer, in the recording studio as they did the editing of a video they had recorded previously to be uploaded to You Tube. This editing process is a very precise and tedious job. The music is recorded on a track in the studio and the video portion is recorded separately. In the editing the music has to be synchronized with the video. We spent a couple of hours in the studio without completing the process. Kay and Matt, their producer, will get back together on Sunday evening to complete the process.
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On the beach in January, can't be bad. - It is January over there, right? (LOL) Your friend Dan looks to be a BIG guy! Don't think I'd have the patience for editing music. Looks like you're having an interesting time down there.
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