Steve West

To start, this is some crazy fly that was sitting on the wall of the porch. It was there long enough for me to go in an get the camera, put on a lens and come out and shoot a number of pictures of it. I kind of thought, one picture would suffice.

Holly got back from her trip to the desert with her sister about 5:30 am. She drove them staight through, about 1100 miles only stopping for a nap in the middle of the night for about an hour and a half. She went to bed when she got home and got up about 10:30. So after futzing around the yard and telling us all about her trip, we set up the hammocks to enjoy the warm but breezy afternoon. She passed right out and slept for about 2 hours.

Then about 830 we loaded up the bikes and rode to downtown for the fireworks at Centennial Park. We ended up walking around and getting a spot to sit on the lawn between the Georgia Aquarium and Coke World. It was a pretty good show and where we were wasn’t too crowded. After show though was a pretty good sized mess of people rushing to their cars to wait in traffic for who knows how long. We got on our bikes but ended up walking them most of way across downtown before hopping on them and riding the rest of the way home.

We got home about 1045 and called Chin Chin 2 for some Chinese delivery and all of us were in bed by 1230. I woke up about 8 to the little dog crying and decided to post the pictures, have coffee and work on clipping out images for Mary Jane Bags.

Okay, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. Lots of things have been going on around here. I now have a full-time gig at a web development company as the creative lead for one of their clients. I’m handling the print work and there’s another designer working on the web stuff. This is my third week and all’s pretty good so far. We’re working pretty hard to get stuff ready for the client coming in from Canada.

We’ve also been working on the yard the past couple of weekends. The side yard was tilled up this weekend and we put in some tomatoes, asparagus, beans, cabbage and peppers. Last weekend had us cleaning out the beds and clipping back the brown stuff from last year.

Finally, it’s time for this month’s Silver Scream Spook Show at the Plaza Theater on Ponce de Leon.

I’ve been waiting for a month and half for tonight to finally get here. Tonight at the Tabernacle is…Ween. I’ve been wanting to see them in concert since I was in college. So when tickets went on sale last month, I was on it. Tonight when they take the stage at 8, I’ll be there with the girl because a Ween concert is what all 4th graders need on a school night.

Here at the house it’s early morning and I’ve gotten the girl off to school and I’m just killing a little time before I have to roll into the office. Other than that things are rolling right along. The weather’s been up and down and now it’s supposed to rain today. I’m working on a brochure and package design for a guy who’s making hats as well as an email blast layout for a nation union’s support announcement and a logo for a clothing company. School’s going well too, teach my type 3 class this quarter. I usually have 9-10 students in the class but this quarter I’m loaded with 13 but so far it’s going pretty well.

Well it’s another last Saturday in Atlanta with the afternoon spent at the Silver Screen Spook Show. The Spook Show kids show a classic horror film at the Plaza Theater on Ponce with a pre-show skit put on by Blast Off Burlesque. This month’s movie was Earth vs. The Fly Saucers. Next month will be the 3D showing of the Vincent Price classic, House of Wax.

Afterward we went over to Bob & Kelly’s house, parents of kids at the Girl’s school. We hung around for a while with Bob and me talking bikes while he put together the fixings for some homebrew. Then we walked up to Fox Bros. bbq for some good eats. Then when we got back the kids played a new game, Kidnap Victim. You tie them up and they wiggle around trying to get up.