Flipping out: now let’s see if I can get this gadget to work.
John, seen at a distance, coming from around the corner and towards the waiting area in front of the airport gate. Dad holding camera. Mom holding small Flip video camera but after the initial aiming it at John’s approaching face, ignores Flip pretty much and focuses on her kid; Dad holds camera steady. The grins get only bigger and bigger, and that last little bit, nobody can stand it anymore and John and Mom, at least, are running towards each other. (Sorry Dad–not paying attention to you at this point.)
Massive hugfest ensues: John and Mom, then John and Dad with Mom suddenly remembering to capture something on the Flip other than that steady walk and the blur that must have have been there with the running and the arms being thrown around each other after two years apart. So. Steps back a step to get them both in the frame, captures the grins from down below (boy, am I short some days.)
Come evening time, Mom decides that maybe she could share that video, and as for the blurring that must be there, hey, it’s all good, right?
Asks for help from resident geek. Dad plugs Flip into computer.  Silly Flip takes forevvvvvvvvverrrrrrrr… And then says it only has one video in it.
Which is of Mom typing away on laptop in hospital in August, suddenly looking up, seeing Flip in face, and if looks could kill… Oh my. I’m still laughing. No you can’t see it.
Turns out, when that one got loaded onto computer, said computer backed itself up–its whole memory, or as much of it as it could–onto that Flip. We have not a clue why.
Memory full. Today didn’t record.
Like (expletive deleted, she typed primly) it didn’t. Maybe not on a bunch of electrons, but… !!!