Rain, rain, go away…

We’ve had three steady days of heavy rain here in southern California, and the forecast is for three more days of the same.   The weather dudes tell us there are two more storms backed up off the coast, and they’re headed this way.  What all this means to me is that I’m for sure not riding my Scooter in this kind of weather.  I’ve been caught out in it before, and I’ve even left on a couple of long trips when it was raining, but given the choice, I’m old enough to realize that I like staying warm and dry.

The weekend hasn’t been a total loss, though.  I bought a video editing program, and I spent most of yesterday playing it.   (I bought something called Pinnacle, which seems to work well.   I tried Adobe’s Premiere, but I found it to be cumbersome and it kept locking up.)  Anyway, all of this rain had me thinking about the Land Speed Record Trials last month, so I pieced together my videos, a couple of still shots, and John’s stellar video of Sylvain on his record run.  With apologies in advance for my amateurish first effort, here it is…

As you may remember, I bought a Flip video camera, and for $179, I am impressed. The whole video thing is new to me, and I am having a lot of fun with it. As soon as this weather lightens up a bit, I’ll try a few more California Scooter videos and I’ll post them here for you as I continue to emulate Cecil B. DeMille.