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| Originally, Chuck had something he wanted to print, and I was going to bind it in a simple little booklet or pamphlet edition. It has been simmering for a while, as things usually do around here. We also wanted to make a card this year for the holidays. Then I remembered the piece he wanted to print and realized it might actually be appropriate to use as the innards of a card. I could use an important element in the story for an seasonal illustration, and the sentiment in the piece was right. I thought it would work out well, and he agreed. Agreement is never enough, though, because we always have many great plans for projects. Follow through is always the problem. Just as there is no direct route from place to place in our daily life, there is also no direct route from idea to execution. We get distracted, we forget, or we get overwhelmed with everything else in our lives. But this time I was determined. I made a plan, got my image ready, and we finally got together working on the printing, sorting out the minor details. While we do work together every day, sometimes we don’t share well when doing projects, as we each tend to have very strong opinions about the aesthetics of a piece, and our egos get involved. But this time we were doing great. We were on the same page and we had managed not to kill each other yet. I’d Gocco printed 110 covers and we’d gotten everything else finalized. It was actually fun. We were all set to print the text pages so I could print another image inside. Then his computer suddenly refused to communicate with the printer. He shut the computer down, and restarted. Nothing happened. Computer would not start up and the hard drive was silent. Tried again, etc. Nothing. The computer just friggin’ quit. Everything important is on that computer. Any back up in my computer? Why, no. We had not gotten around to that. Hoping it wasn’t the hard drive, he took it out an connected it up in my computer and fortunately it did open. So we’ve got the data. And we’ve got another little iMac at home, which will have to be hauled over to the studio and put to work until we can get a better one up and running. Needless to say, it put a sad end to the project for today. Not that it can’t be picked up again tomorrow after we get the computer stuff sorted out. But it was such a let down getting stalled like that in the midst of doing something we were actually enjoying.
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