By our absence from your conveniently-available computer screens, you can tell that summer vacation at Friends Food Fun HQ lasted a wee bit longer than expected. Can you say computers retiring? Oh, my, indeed. They didn’t stop working at the same time, but it still put a crimp in our ability to function.

My Macbook Pro laptop on which I edit all our videos decided to give up the ghost just before the summer began. I had the best of intentions of replacing it in June when Apple typically releases their new Mac minis; however, that did not happen until this past October. I am happily back in business now.

Helenka’s PC then decided it wanted to be difficult by having an old-age tantrum (it was nearly 7 years old). How? By shutting down and restarting every couple of minutes. As her PC is her regular connection to the world, Helenka was so not a happy camper. And using her smartphone was a pale substitute for the real thing.

Finally, to top it all off, my sister’s PC also decided that it no longer wanted to store her photos and other important documents, so it stopped working, too (all things in threes … hmmm).

It’s no wonder there was no room for cooking or filming because my living room had parts strewn all over the place, with a lot of swapping between the three units, though it eventually got all sorted out over a couple of months. [Helenka’s very impressed with Brian’s instant DIY electronics workshop, and so, SO relieved.]

Another realization also occurred to both me and Helenka: we really enjoyed doing our specials so we thought that going forward we would spend more effort on producing those videos that provide us with the most enjoyment. One of these is our Christmas Special which is coming up later this week.

We’re aiming to produce a schedule of events that we would like to focus on but I’ll save that for later.

In the meantime, we still have a few videos in the vault [Helenka says as long as they’re not in the “tomb”] that we’re eager to release. One of them is our bloopers video of the past two years. Believe you me, I had a lot of footage to choose from and it was a laugh producing it. [Helenka agrees that we’re funny whether it’s intentional … or not.]

That’s it for now. We just wanted to update you on what’s occurred over the past few months. We are definitely still around and thinking about what the future will bring.

Till next time, have fun playing with your food!
Enjoy!
=;)
B&H