Thursday, June 23, 2011

It looks like my last post was sometime in April. It's not my fault, I always said I would post stuff until life got in the way and life got in the way. Things like the capture of Bin Laden and the prediction of the end of the world. Not that I was personally involved in any of those things. The wife and I went to the beach for a week to take a break from life and now that we are back and refreshed, I feel like sharing whats been happening on this post and the next couple of ones. So stayed tuned.

Mostly work, work work has been going on. Not that I am complaining because in today's economy I am thankful to be working. But it's not just my day job, as I stated a few months ago I am trying to earn a little money on the side by doing some graphic design work. I have put some bids on some interesting projects. My favorite so far was for a Mexican clown that did Micheal Jackson impersonations. Yes you read that correctly, he wanted a character of his clown for a coloring book to give to kids at birthday parties. It's been a tough start, but I am having fun seeing what people need for graphics. So if you hear of anything send them my way and check out http://www.jason-miller-design.com/

The other thing that has been going on is that we have been terrorized by the neighbors. These little punks have had big parties with loud music and underage drinking. Whatever, just keep it in your own yard. No, not them, they decided it would be fun to throw cookies in our pool. Ok, just cookies I cleaned them out. Then they decided to throw wine cooler bottles in the pool, along with trashing my yard with beer cans. Each time I call the police they tell me they can't do anything because we did not actually see it with our eyes. They suggested to get motion cameras to catch them in the act. I wanted to tell the cops that I just won't pay my taxes that help pay their salary and use that money to buy a security camera. They did have a talk with the kids and made them clean my yard. We have since built a tall privacy fence on that side of the pool and it has been nice not seeing them and having almost total privacy. I like standing on my side of the fence and sticking my tongue out at them. Yeah they can't see me, but it's like a victory dance to me.

So here is what I don't understand. I have to stay up at night, peeking out my windows, hoping to catch the kid next door in the act of doing something dumb. But while at the beach, surrounded by people we don't know, we can walk away from our stuff for hours and nothing is touched. I don't just mean that we walked a few feet away. I mean we left our chairs, beach umbrella, and whatever else we took, went back to our condo for lunch for about an hour or more and came back with nothing ever been touched. It wasn't just us, people would leave there stuff out over night and it would still be sitting there the next day. Maybe it is the beach life, playing in the ocean or the sand between the toes, the people there just live a different way and are just so relaxed and nice. So I'm thinking I should take the kid next door and hold his head under some water and bury him up to his neck in some dirt somewhere. Anyways I was able to do some drawing while I was there. The picture is what almost every kid looked like at the beach.