I'm at Miss GA!

I will be updating on my own blog all week as often as I can so check here for more info!

http://jackieau.prblogs.org/

Jackie, here's my link to Chris graduation photos:

http://gallery.mac.com/ballinh20#100318

I listened to the broadcast and thought it was great. Be sure and call those ladies back if you win Miss GA!

I'm a radio star! ...kind of :o)

It was great to see so many of you at Chris' graduation! I thought the blog would be filled with pictures from the weekend!

As many of you know, I'm the national spokesperson for the safe teen driving club. Last night I was interviewed by The Teen View Radio show. You can listen to it here http://www.contacttalkradio.com/hosts/archives/teenview.htm click on 6/9/08 and I come in the show around 15:40 .

Other than that I am just working really hard to get ready for Miss GA! Hope you're all doing well!

After 6 or so years with my old Epson 2200, it finally died on me a few weeks ago. Defective print head. I just bought the Epson R1900 ($550.00) and love it. Lots of great reviews in the trade press. If anyone wants to get into printing out larger (Up to 13 x19) prints, I highly recommend!

See you all in Atlanta!

-Mike

Swingfest 16

Hi all. I had a nice relaxing 4 days in Naples, Fla. last Thur-Sunday at my Swingfest Golf Tournament. I won $125.00 in a skins format on one of the days! I shot a par 4 on one of the holes, and with my handicap, I was given 2 strokes, so my net score for the hole was 2. Nobody had that score or lower in the field, so I won the "skin" for that hole.

My golf game was its usual self... had some great drives, putting was okay, but the mid irons, and chipping from close in was forgettable. It was just great to be away from Lago Mar for a few days, and think about other things other than who needs a drink! For a change, it was me!

The girls in the pics were the ones who help run the tournament for my friend Bill who put it together. Next year, were moving the tournament to Disney World which has some nice courses on the property.

-Mike

Update From Mike

Hi gang, loved Jackie's performance... literally laughing with tears in my eyes! Don't know whether it was that funny ( I love Satire) or because she was just so damn good at singing/acting that song. I think that satire singing is her niche. Just like Taylor the Latte Boy song.

I'm off to Swingfest 16 in Naples Thur-Sunday. Our 16th year! My first break of no work for more than two days since September! Can't wait.

Just finished a photo book for a couple's 20th Wedding Anniversary who are frequent guests at Lago Mar but live in Maine.

Here's the link to see proofs of the book pages:

http://gallery.mac.com/ballinh20#100306

Also today, I completed a photo book of a tourist family to Lago Mar. I'll be showing this book to the owner to try and seek his permission to do these types of books for our guests at the Resort. He's already given me the "ok" to do it for the corporate groups that have meeting there.

Here's the link for "Beard Family" visit to Lago Mar:

http://gallery.mac.com/ballinh20#100270&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Karen took delivery on 2,500 postcards that I designed for her. Her theme is "The Queen of Clean has gone Green" with all natural cleaning products. Jes would be proud! We targeted wealthy neigborhoods here in Weston and purchased a mailing list with 2,100 names.

We sent out 400 yesterday, and she got a call today and booked a new weekly client starting next week. We'll probably send 400 per month for the next several months.

Anyhow, I posted a shot of the front and back of postcard. Click on it for a larger view.

Hey, the blog lives!