May | 1992 | Stonegate's End

Sitting next to Dad on Livsey. Kathy is downstairs working on the computer building outlines for her English final. Mom is working in her studio. Danny and Nicole are asleep upstairs.

Penny Rose is getting ready to go to sleep, I imagine, in her new home at 1234 Hancock Circle. It has all been freshly painted by Bob Orie.

This weekend has been much more relaxing than last when Bob E., Ted, and Grant helped me and Kathy move all of our stuff over to Ted’s living room and dining room. Living with Mom and Dad is working out quite well. Kathy’s dinners have been enjoyed thoroughly by Dad, and Mom enjoys coming home to prepared meals. I don’t think we will get thrown out.

I enjoyed not writing a mortgage check at the end of May.

I went over to Bob’s house today to help him build an elaborate, hanging closet space saver for the master-bedroom-to-be downstairs. I reviewed all of the tools and things he has in his garage, trying to figure which ones Kathy and I will have to get for the 1234 Rae Place. Bob has a lot of extras and specialty tools. Some I could not identify. A shovel and a hose should get us through the summer. Though I will need something to cut back the enumerable holly bushes in the front. I hope they are of the weak thorn variety.

April and May were very busy months.

Sales Technologies Group

May 16, 1992

Dr. Edward Cashin

Augusta College

2500 Walton Way

Augusta, GA 30910

Dear Uncle Edward,

Enclosed are the sketches I have developed for each of the 11 chapters. Some are closer to being finished than others, but I think each will give you an idea of what I can do. I edited some of the text with thick black pen. Mostly adding commas to build in pauses in longer sentences or to separate compound sentences.

The finished drawings will be cleaner and will incorporate some screened shading for uniforms, shadows, etc. This screening is done by cutting out the shapes on a light board– much like tracing, only using a knife. Adds a lot to the drawing.

If any are objectionable, or if you have a better idea, feel free to edit and/or delete at will. After all, it’s your book!

I have also enclosed a sample of what can be done with a Macintosh and a laser printer. The resolution of this typesetting is 300 dots per inch. This can be used for final product for free, or once complete, the final version can be printed with a service bureau for a few dollars per page on a 1,200 dot per inch Linotron.

If you can provide me with the final copy on diskette, I can then drop the text into PageMaker on the Macintosh, converting quoted titles to italics, quotes to “curly” quotes (note how the beginning quote is different than the end), etc. Since most of the work is actually keying the text, you would be saving the labor cost of having it retyped.

The sketches are my originals which I will need to work from if you want me to proceed.

And let me apologize here at the end for the delay. In the past 4 weeks I have closed on my town house, bought a new house, gotten a new position in the company, and been on an extended business trip in Arizona. Somewhere in all that, the time just flew by.

Let me know what you think.

Jeb Cashin

Enclosure

Sketches

Manuscripts

Sample Laser Printing

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