FINALLY… now that I’m free from the rat race, I had time to give my Memphis Wallpaper site a much-needed overhaul. You can find the new site here. I’ve added the first new pictures in 4 years (including a pic I snapped of Raiford’s before it closed – that’ll be one for the memory books).
The good news is that the site is on a new server with 1000x the storage, so there’s no longer a limit to the number of photos I can post. That means I’ll be adding more in the future. From now on I’m not going to post the images in different sizes, because there are too many monitor sizes to bother with. The “Save as background” option should handle it automatically if you choose to make an image your desktop wallpaper (the site explains how to do this). Otherwise, you can save the full-size image and pull it into Paint or your favorite image editing program if you want it in a different size.
The site is kind of Downtown-centric right now (big surprise), but I plan on extending it soon, adding a Midtown section and possibly others. If you have requests let me know.
Been a good weekend. Hung out at Pearl’s with friends Friday evening – got some good pics, may post a few of the best once I get them off the camera. Then I moved on to Earnestine & Hazel’s, then EP’s. EP’s is really growing on me as a place to hang out Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Good, young singles scene, but it’s comfortable – it doesn’t have that “meet market/air of desperation” feel like some places do.
Saturday I made a trip to East Memphis for shopping, then in the evening I went to my rooftop to catch Blackberry Wednesday’s debut. The gang showed up and we all hung out. The Nuh-Uh Sister has a new tube top and I got a pic – will be posting that soon. Afterward we went to the Saucer and called it an early night.
And of course today was Sunday brunch – Majestic then the Saucer. The gang wanted to go to EP’s to get one of those high-alcohol F.U.C.T. drinks, then out to MLGW’s lawn to throw Frisbee. This was about 3:30 in the afternoon, sun was bright and it was 95 and humid. I thought about the proposed plan and decided… hell no. Sounded like a recipe for instant dehydration. So I bid them goodbye and continued to play pool at the Saucer. I feel like I should go drive a Gatorade truck over there to rescue them.
Mikey came up with a new Mikeyism today (actually I’ve heard it once before) – a member of our gang was in the bathroom for a while and Mikey commented that the person was “taking the Browns to the Super Bowl.” Heh.
Dammit, Jessica had a tube dress on and I forgot to take a picture for the blog!
Still at the Saucer, after having gone home and got the laptop. Time to post, then shut it down and be social for a while.