Ok, so I am not the greatest writer in the world - surely - that is why I am in real estate and not trying to write my first novel...

It might also be one of the reasons I have picked up so much on the use of video... So much simpler for me to record a short clip, review it - and if I don't like it, I can redo it right away (yes, there have been 20+ cuts to pick from on occasion).

So, this whole Flip camera thing got me going - so fast that I never bought one - I realized that my point & shoot had HD video built in - the quality is arguably the same or better than Flip. Not to mention that the thing already went everywhere with me.

My choice in this category ended up being the Samsung tl220, you know, the one with the extra screen in front - I love it. My son goes bonkers when you turn the clown on too.

So far so good, now, what about when someone takes the cam away from you? Yeah... That's a bummer. In my case, the touch screen broke, nice little crack. Camera is new enough that Samsung offered to repair under warranty, great, my cost - the $6 something to ship it to them - they ship it back for free.
All this is great and dandy - even when they called me to tell me to ship it to QC instead, they are swapping me a new one "Hey - I got service here", screen is not supposed to break...
The problem... Is that I have now been without a video camera for a week, talk about withdrawals, this is horrible... I am writing a blog with no video to go with it - how can you do that?

So - I just found out the hard way what my most favorite tool is, I am curious as to what tools you use that are so essential to your daily routine that having it missing really makes you bounce off walls. As I look at houses in Temecula and Murrieta, I stop at places I would want to show my clients, and now I can't.

For now, I am just going to slump here in the office and wait for my cam to show up again - that knock on the door from UPS... Is that them now? Hey - this is kinda like x-mas - except I know what I am getting and I can't wait.

Now show me some video.