some calendar progress

[OT from cottage renovations]

took yesterday off work to focus on the calendar:

• called the printer to discuss requirements.  calendar will be 11x17 (he said: "for a job like this you can't afford our larger press", an assertion I saw no reason to challenge). 
  detailed proposal is on its way in the mail. 
• downloaded 234 Mb of Adobe bloatware; installed it and and its updates and mocked up a trial in order to work through the initial exasperation factor inevitable with any new-and-different software, particularly if it's been ported from planet Mac. 
• deleted the mockup and started over, completing basic layout and typography. 

still to do:

• verify 2007 lunar phase dates -- some of the ones in the initial boilerplate don't look right.  done. 
• install higher end photo software (images so far have all been destined for the web, but now it's time to get serious and work with the raw image data)
• review/tweak/accept proposal from printer.  unit cost and size of press run remain undetermined. 
• add images and captions, getting things just right. 
• ship it off, having scraped up a few kilobucks to pay for the press run.  unfortunately the recently-upgraded sofa hasn't accumulated any coins under its cushions. 

and then, of course, hurry up and wait. 
during which time, figure out distribution.  folks have indicated interest but it has to have a way to get into their hands. 

how obvious it must be that I've never done this before.