Eatin'

Tonight was my almost monthly supper with two of my best friends from high school, Steve and Kent. I think that it's great we get together and enjoy each other's company after all this time. I've known both of them since our elementary school days at E. S. Richardson in Minden...that would make it almost 45 years?! At least we're still good-looking! Usually we catch up on what we've been doing lately, how our families are, things we used to do in school, and discussions of the events of the day. Maybe other stuff if we feel like it. They still live in Minden but tonight they came over to Bossier City where we ate at Ruby Tuesday's....my turkey burger was fantastic! Seriously.....no lie.

The food was also good at my local ad club's luncheon earlier today at the Petroleum Club. Our speaker was good, too. He's originally from Shreveport but moved to Los Angeles many years ago to be an actor, which he did for a few years. But then he got involved in writing and producing, and now is one of the big players in Hollywood where he's done a number of films and TV shows, has filmed all over the world, and has one or two Emmys on his shelf. Anyway, he's looking to bring the industry to Shreveport where he's already started a production company here, Caddo Street Studios or something like that. Currently he has three films and five TV productions in the works with some projects he wants to do here. I'd like to see if I could get involved with that if at all possible. I'll have to make one or two calls tomorrow to see what I can find out.

Picked up a couple of jobs today, one is a couple of T-shirts designs and another is an ad for a local massage therapist. The neat thing about being a free-lancer is that you never know what the next job will be and where it'll go. And how one job will be completely different from your next job. I've been able to go places that most people don't normally go, meet some interesting people, and get paid for it. On the other hand, I've also met some incredibly horrid people and have had the jobs from hell (we all get those at some point in our lives eventually). But the good outweighs the bad and I'm thankful to eck out some kind of living from what I majored in at college!