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Design Attempt #2

Ok… So i did a little clean up… This one mostly on my own… Still haven’t fixed up the colors the way I want ‘em but that I DO need kevin’s help… Fixed up the banner though.. Playin with photoshop - gotta love it..

Anyway - made up 4 banners for up there… Check out the ones below and let me know which one is your favorite.. (Click on each one to make it larger)…

Childhood Story #1

This might be total random sillyness but I thought it might be fun to post some random stories of mine from when I was a kid… Dunno why… Maybe to spark conversation.. Maybe just so I can squirrel them away for when I start loosing my mind (or when I finish rather! ;))… anyway… here is the first one that comes to mind..

I was born in Chicago and we lived there for the first couple of years of my life… Evanston actually.. A suburb of Chicago where Northwestern University is (where my dad went to school)…

When I was really little my mom tells me I used to LOVE to sit on the porch in the afternoon and watch the kids come home from school… Kind of true to form actually - I’m still a HUGE people watcher… Sitting in an airport and watching the weird people is one of my FAVORITE things…

Anyway… she’d plop me on the front stoop round 1 or 2 in the afternoon with a little red box of raisins and I’d be entertained watching the kids go by while she did work round the house.

Apparently one of these days she came out to check on me and found me sitting there with a box of grasshoppers instead of my usual raisins and i had one in my hand bout to munch on it… Best we can figure either one of the kids passing decided to be clever and replace my raisins with grasshoppers or I had collected them myself… Probably the former..

Does raise the question of where my mom was at the time but thats really just paranoia of todays world - when I was a kid it wouldn’t have even occurred to folks that it might not be a good idea to leave me alone on the porch… Think the mindset was that I wasn’t likely to get hurt myself and if I did probably wouldn’t what ever I did to hurt myself again.. And why would anyone else mess with a little kid…

Why would anyone mess with a little kid anyway? Kids are the most precious thing in the world!

Though the grasshoppers don’t bother me… kinda funny really! :):)

Sad Nightlife

So I went out dancing for the first time in ages with my friend Randy last night… Kind of needed to get out of the house and see the boys… So we went to this new place in SF called Mezzanine… Supposed to be the next great thing in San Francisco since Club Universe closed..

Well it ain’t… It sucked… Weird thing is it had a lot of the right pieces… There was a good collection of hotties for eye candy… The music was pretty OK… But it just didn’t work… Kind of sad that a city like San Francisco has such sad options… just wrong

I always snicker when people talking about a club having ‘good energy’.. Seems very ethereal and touchey-feeley to me.. But thats really what it was.. Place had bad energy… least last night… Couldn’t put my finger on it.. just wasn’t right..

There is, however, another possibility - that that kind of thing just isn’t my thing any more… It is a pretty superficial environment that is all about hot boys with their shirts off and its pretty impossible to interact with anyone at the clubs… It is fun in its own way and when you’re feelin good the attention can be fun.. but its only skin deep… Doesn’t encourage friendships with depth… Doesn’t allow for good conversation… And worse yet - it leads to ruining the whole next day because you have to be up so damn late…

I still do enjoy going out like that with a large group of friends on a special occasion… But then its probably cuz then it feels like a big party for us where other people have just stopped by..
I’m not sure if that makes me an old man or just one that is discovering what I find important and what makes me feel good and proud about my self..

Dunno…. Guess I’ll just put this under rants and leave it at that! :):)