They’re scheduled to break ground on our house this Friday, and I’m getting pretty excited. We actually made a somewhat spur of the moment purchase to help us record the progress. I’ve been thinking about getting a camcorder for a while and seriously considered buying one for Amber’s last birthday, but a lack of knowledge and funds kept me from doing it. I figured building a house was a good reason to go ahead and buy one. Pictures are nice, but they can’t tell you the whole story.

I did some quick reading at camcorderinfo.com and played with a few cameras at Best Buy before settling on the JVC Everio GZ-MG330. It’s a hard drive camcorder that can store about 7 hours of video at the highest quality setting. It’s surprisingly small and light, so hopefully it will be easy to use. It’s not overly fancy, but it should do the job quite nicely. It came from Amazon today and I’ve spent some minimal time playing with it.

For the next several days at least we’ll probably be headed by our lot pretty much every day to take some pictures and shoot video. Assuming I can figure out how to get videos onto the computer, I’ll be putting some up on the web for all to see.

Oh yeah, I also joined twitter.

Update 5/2/2008 7:35PM: They didn’t do any digging today. It rained pretty hard this morning, maybe that caused the delay.