Thanks a lot for the encouragement, guys. Unfortunately, I got into a few vidcam complications while doing it.
I was using Windows Live Movie Maker to record my sorting, and the durn thing kept crashing by computer. I shortened the time between each recordings, to the point where I was stopping and starting every five rolls and for every break. As a result, I have close to one hundred and forty-five clips that document my 35.5 hour run. A bit was lost through my computer crashing, particularly at the beginning.
It's not really the way to run a marathon: sort five rolls, stop the vidcam, save the project [I had to use one project per clip; more that one got my system crashing], close Movie Maker [again, to forestall crashes], open up Movie Maker again, start recording again, and sort five more rolls. The same procedure, I used for breaks.
As I said, I got 35.5 hours done. By that time, I began hallucinating so I called it quits.
When I had recovered, I started again - but the same five-roll regimen got my computer crashing
four times in three hours. At that point, I gave up recording and began taking it a little easy.
I'm glad I did. Clearing my head enabled me to find this vidcam recorder software that has enabled me to record three hours' worth of sorting continuously without any crashes. It's called
Debut Video Capture. If you want to make long recording from your webcam, it's
much better than Movie Maker.
As of now, I'm in the middle of testing its capabilites with the seven penny boxes I have left in the
10,000 Roll Challenge. I was hoping for a three-day licking of the 28 boxes I had left when I announced the marathon, but it was not to be. So, I'm just in mop-up mode.
But...I broke down some time ago and got eighty more boxes! Now that I've gotten a system that allows me to do my thing instead of having to interrupt myself out of the need to twiddle with the recorder to prevent my system from crashing, I have enough boxies for at least three more marathon attempts.
Even though I'm within a day of ending the 10,000 Roll Challenge, I'm not done yet!
RecordSetter will hear from me...