The Fishing Tale for 2009, Updated 090619

Since mid-May, I've fished seven times on the Mokelumne River and have kept 11 trout. For several years, my goal has been to catch as many fish as the license costs in dollars, which this year would be 43 fish. I share the trout with our remarkable neighbor Irene who used to be an avid fisherperson with her husband.

Last year we took a Family ROAD TRIP to the Four Corners area, and stayed two days at Bryce Canyon and another two days at Canyon de Chelly. Amazing places and a trip full of good humor and hangin' out together. I'm preparing an image gallery from the trip as well as other travels.

I've been moving forward behind the scenes with a redesign of this website, but some major items that I wanted to introduce have not been posted yet, including the short story I've been babbling about since August of 2001.  

On the business side, I'm lucky to work with some excellent people who are also clients, some for 20 years. This year I've completed three websites and am working on a fourth, have done dozens of ads and brochures, and am now shooting client video for YouTube. I enjoy what I do. 

My revised site (very lightly penciled in for "sometime" this year) will include good ideas and samples in a different visual approach. I'll include some thoughts about working with technology-dependent media and the ever-increasing load of digital information. And I'll be offering downloads of my images that can be used for your computer desktop background image.

Every website needs to have an entertainment aspect to it, with things that people enjoy aesthetically or procedurally or linguistically. Some folks who claim to do website design, graphics and marketing have no real website themselves, and thereby no samples of their work in different media, or enough valid links to see their approach.

Odd marketing, I'd say.

                                                       

Abraham Lincoln wrote:  
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

And what is it I claim to do for a living?
I often awake with a start in the middle of the night and ask myself the same thing. Well, let's say . . .

• Print, Internet and Video Services - Writing, photography, ad and logo design, websites, video production

• Communication and Event Management - Newsletter production and email distribution, email communication with groups, membership and sponsorship solicitations, event promotion and staging 

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