This Is For My Friend Grant (and anyone else who wants to take a listen)

This is a guitar player named Andy Mckee. His stuff reminds me of David playing for King Saul.

The Monthly Pilgimage

We trudged, if doing 80 on I-4 can be considered trudging, over to Lakeland for the annual checkup and the birth center. Everything is still just fine. We took Rachel with us because she was born at the same birth center. She got to see the room where she was born and she got to hear the baby's heart beat. 160 bpm. All is well.

I have to go make some changes on a clients project so I can get it to press.

Ciao.

Very Busy

As of yesterday I had 5 jobs going at the same time. The one I finished and turned over to the client was a lot of time intensive Photoshop work. I'm doing a small ad campaign for a Tampa defense attorney that is a continuation of the work I did for him last year. I'm also doing a complete identity package for a photographer in Kansas. A logo design, web site design (I don't do programming -- way too left brained for me.), business cards, and a postcard mailer. I'll probably do letterhead at some point too. I have to say that the logo I did for this client is, hands down, the coolest logo I have ever created. Usually I will do 15 to 25 or so designs to show a client. For this photographer I only did 4. The 4th one was it! As soon as I made it I knew I had it and the photographer loved it.

The fine folks at Red Kite Studios and Mark Anthony Photography have tapped my creative expertise for a re-design of the Red Kite web site and a logo design for a new non-profit photography business both companies are starting up called In Gods Eyes. And last but not least is the day spa. I'm doing a lot of print work for them. Print work is very different from web stuff. On the web you can make changes at will and see them happen in real time. If there is a typo, just go fix it. Chances are no one will be the wiser. In print however.... once ink hits paper it's too late to be making changes. All you can do is live with it. It's very important to spend a lot of time, and I mean a lot of time going over everything with a fine toothed comb to make sure every word, character, line break, image, bleed, etc. is perfect before the job goes to press.

The blog has been neglected for a week or two now and when things settle a bit I will be posting more regularly. I need to finish reviewing The Myth of a Christian Nation so I can start reading another book I bought entitled The Secret Message of Jesus.

The kids just finished a week of vacation bible school and couple of weeks ago we had some friends from Memphis in town for a few days. Thankfully the head lice problem appears to be over with. Sylvia is doing fine. We make our monthly pilgrimage to the birth center next week. We are still not sure where we are going to land church wise and that is fine with me. It's nice to not be under the pressure of church right now. What I mean by the pressure is I don't have to be there. I'm going because I want to and not just because I have to play guitar. The last few weeks it has been nice to just sit back and soak it in.

That's all I can think of for now,
Ciao.

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