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Day: April 27, 2022

Building the book itself.

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I’m happy with what’s been written, and I think I’m good with the page break out for the illustrations. I have two started ( which I’m not terribly happy with at the moment), but I’ve just gone ahead and laid out the page furniture, and the body copy, title pages and what not. So progress is being made on that front.

I am still wrestling with the need to hand draw my book versus doing it as vector based artwork in illustrator, or painting background in Photoshop. I know some tricks that can look good on close inspection, but are kind of a cheat.

Story with page breakdown.
Laid out text & furniture on all pages.

Hope you are all well, and following through on your bucket list items.

What a Wednesday it is.

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Is this the last dying breaths of winter, or is there still more to come as we crawl out of April and into May? Who knows at this point. I wish I kept better notes in years passed because I can’t recall if we’ve had such inconsistent weather in previous late April before this year. Early April is up for grabs, no contest, that’s fairly well understood, but minus six degrees with mere days to go before May? I don’t know. In university I wore shorts to my exams, and had sun burns from lounging outdoors in mid April, going back to 2002 through 2005. This feels new, and off, to me.

Gotta make a run through Ottawa at some point before June to see of my parents and one brother. They are moving back to B.C. from Ontario. Can’t stand the heat of summer here, and my brother’s allergies are awful when away from the coast. I can’t blame them for leaving, just a shame that the entirety of their stay was during Covid Times and we couldn’t get out to see each other at all. No Sens games, no Red Black games, no Athletico games, no go carting, not much of anything. We played one round of golf, on the hottest day of summer last year, but otherwise didn’t get up to any mischief at all. Boo-Urns I say, Boo-Urns.

End of the school year will be here before you know it, along with a myriad of birthdays, events and humidity and heat. I forsee a lot of bike riding, farm walks, beach time, swimming at Grandma’s pool, and possibly a day spent at Canada’s Wonderland with my eldest child, for some quality time out of school together. I can’t remember the last time I went there. It must have been just before or just after the birth of our first child. I know I went to Disney in 2004, but for the life of me I can’t remember going to Wonderland. Weird.

So What’s the plan for today? I did some illustration work for an Ottawa Rugby Team, but I won’t hear back about that for 48 hours or so. Should I bite the bullet and just set up my childrens book in illustrator, and tear through it all as fast as I can manage? Perhaps I will.