Christians In A Tree

Yesterday I fought software ad nausea all day trying to design two book covers. I’d checked out an armload of computer books from the library and studied them diligently. I followed the instructions step by step. Each step worked just as it should; but when I combined them…

Zilch!

Double zilch.

Double damn zilch!

Ginny came home and made both covers in less than an hour.

As I age, I’m finding it harder and harder to learn new things. I understand a joke told by Gene, (http://oldhorsetailsnake.blogspot.com/ ) who lives in a nursing home in Oregon and who tells worse jokes than I do:

More money is being spent today on breast implants and Viagra than on Alzheimer's research. Thus, by 2040, we will have a great population of oldsters with perky boobs and huge erections but no recollection of what to do with them.

Anyhow, I was able to send the manuscripts, with covers, to the printer for proof pages. We’ll see how they come out.

To reward myself for my efforts on these books, I spend this morning making new tin boxes for my matches. Bikini girls inside the covers, Spring and work related pictures on the outside. I did use one picture from a book cover on one matchcase:

This is from Strangers On The Earth, A Collective Biography Of People Whose Faith Got Them Into Trouble. It’s about people who followed Jesus even when it meant suffering; the engraving is from the chapter on Johannes Kepler.

The Christians are the ones in the tree.

No software hassles for these folks.