Sticky Cover

Okay this is the third time posting this same post. hope it takes, can't figure what I am doing wrong, but it must be something.


Well you have to understand, it is near impossible for us neophytes to know how much work (computer wise in processing and storing) goes into one book cover. Josh has finished my Book cover for Sticky. Now I am ready to submit the final piece of data to the publisher or printer. I am the publisher, I forget that. One slight problem. “Grandpa, the size of the cover file is 50 Meg., I cannot send it as an attachment it is too big! I am on Fall break and it will be Wednesday before I can upload it to a place that you can download it from.”
Now just to give you an idea how much space the cover takes up in a computer, my book is only 278 pages long and it takes up 38 Meg. That is saying the cover takes up about one and a half what the book does. You must consider that the cover has three pictures inset over a very large picture. Along with text. So it is very large. Anyway I am not on a deadline, I am just glad the cover has been finished.
In hind sight, I should have chosen a much simpler cover, and I will from now on. I will take that into consideration.
Of course we are all good at hind sight. We all know someone who was smart enough to buy land or something very cheap five or ten years before it became very valuable. My Daddy had a saying, ”A very smart man is a man who knows to buy junk the day before it becomes an antique.” Daddy was very smart, but he never bought the $50 an acre land either. Dad would never invest, he said it looked bad for a minister to invest and speculate. Of course he never bought the junk the day before it became an antique either.
I hope to become a published writer. Only one in 150,000 published writers make a living at it, much less get rich. So I am not expecting to turn the world on ear at 69 years old. This is just another one of those things I wanted to do.
I have spent my life doing the things I wanted to do.
I wanted to quit school… I did, I successfully did it.
I wanted to be a Marine… I successfully completed PI
I Wanted to be an Airman…I successfully did it for over 4 years.
Then I decided I wanted to Preach.. I was successful at that for a few years.
I was a chalk artist, teacher and Magician.
I decided I wanted to be a Sailor.. I became one and retired a Chief.
I wanted to be a builder… I was successful at that up to and including Licensed General Contractor.
I wanted to be a published Writer.. I hope to succeed in a few weeks.
NO! I have not been successful at some of the most important jobs.
I attended College three times, I was top in my class each time but I quit. So none was successful.
I wanted to be a husband! Successful? I am not sure. I have been married over 52 years but most of the credit goes to a wonderful woman.
I wanted to be a Dad. I became one.. Successful? not really. I did not convey the important parts of life. That is a dad’s job. I failed miserably in that respect.
I can fix most anything. Everybody who knows me will tell you that. As a grown man I have stood and cried when I could fix a faulty light, breaker, roof, or start a stubborn car, when I could not help my sons in their problems, I could not fix their lives. It is a very helpless feeling and you must experience it before you realize how helpless you are.
Yeah I KNOW, we can fix anyone’s problems (theoretically), as long as we only have to tell them how to do it. We think to ourselves, if they would only listen to me! That is a bunch of BS. Most of us can’t and didn’t fix our own problems, we muddled through them, but we will gladly fix everyone else’s problems.
Now back to the beginning of this entry, the cover takes up a lot of computer space. Hahahaha!
What an entry! Thanks for coming if you stayed all the way!
Thanks even if; you didn’t.
Nite Shipslog
PS:
Life is short,
Forgive quickly,
Kiss slowly,
Love truly,
Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile,
And remember most people don’t like a mean person so just be sweet.