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Cooking: i took the dreadfully bitter and expensive quinoa bread which has been in the freezer, mixed it with what was available , guided by the advice given by http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_studio.html and it's sort of OK as veatloaf. Pour enough molasses on the top of something and how bad can it be? Well, it's still squishy. Christine asserts it will be better by Monday as it sets up in the fridge. Protein for lunch, hurrah.

Creating: i read yesterday morning's entry to Christine and she was entertained. She suggested that i make a Playbill with the play inside and send it to friends & family. Perfect mail art! Yes! So, i looked for a template for a chapbook, but didn't really find one. (Microsoft Publisher, yes.) I then spent a long time figuring out how the page numbers of a chapbook flow over the sheet of paper when you fold it in half. I wanted to figure out the numbering scheme regardless of how many sheets were being folded together.

I did! It did take a while, and it may not be the most elegant expression. If one is making a chapbook with N sheets of paper folded in half, the odd side of the mth sheet is

[p 2N+2(N-m)+2    |        p 2m-1 ]

and the even side is

[p 2m             | p 2N+2(N-m)+1 ]

I'm not delighted with the layout in Open Office yet. I know i can make text flow between text boxes is Word, haven't figured that our in OO. Also, i'm using Draw as the layout program because on the back cover i wanted "sideways" text (couldn't get that in the text program), but when i paste formatted text into the text box, the program changes it to the default display text. If i paste the RTF formatted text, Adobe Garmond Pro in 12 pt font turns into some Times font at 16 pt.

The easy part is now all laid out: the text of the play, the cast, the title page. For the cover image, Christine has a fun photographic idea that we'll need to execute.

Socializing: we went up to Redwood City to see a friend of ours from Philly with her foster daughter and, it turned out, her foster daughter's friend. Two sixteen year old girls! What a parenting challenge! We'd chose to meet at what i thought was a coffeehouse but turned out to be more of a coffee shop or diner across from the old courthouse building in Redwood City. It was a bit more of a sit down that i'd imagined, but turned out well. Onion rings and curly fries and malteds! Then we went into the Victorian era courthouse, now museum, and poked around a bit. This PDF gives some sense of the interior. The stained glass dome was stunning while we were there.