Dear Doubleyoo Jay,
I only just heard of your postal strike today! I sent you a postcard right in the thick of it I think. Chalk it up to my uncannily poor conversational timing. Now that your mail is moving again, I hope it arrives soon and finds you well. You can’t stop the mail arteries in Canada for too long, they’ll freeze! Anywho, I did receive your postcard last month. Thank you! It’s beautiful. Thank you! Thank you! How did you know that I’ve had my eye out for a blue S.C. Silent Super exactly like the one in that window? Those art-deco racing stripes, oooh la la. That’s why I want a blue one. Any other color would simply be too sexy for me, and I already have Candy in my stable. I don’t want it for ogling, I want it for writing. A twelve-pitch model of course. My manuals are ten pitch and, as you know, you can only cram so many characters into the half-panel of a postcard. It’s plenty of space for the ol’ “Wish you were here!” but I often have more to say than that. By the numbers I should be able to say approximately 17%-20% more with a 12-pitch in that 3×4 slot. Plus, the extra postage starts to add up when you’re regularly writing letters in ten pitch. And you have to be some kind of tycoon to double-space a letter these days. But on the flip side, ten-pitch helps with economy of word and limits the use, or misuse, of superfluous adjectives & adverbs such as “uncannily.” If this were a postcard I guarantee only about 27% of this paragraph would survive.
So in case you didn’t receive mine yet, it’s on its way. And to your question: No, to my knowledge, I’m not related to him. But one never knows.
Looks like you found some nice postcards! I haven’t. But it’s fun searching. I did however obtain a large pile of blanks– watercolor & multimedia stock. Yours was the first one off the stack. I traced a leaf from the maple we planted out back almost two decades ago and threw some ink and watercolor on it. It’s still green here but I figure there must be some flaming foliage where you are. So try not to drop it on the ground if the leaves are down. You could lose it.
I’m Inktobering, trying to make a new postcard from the prompts every day. Last year I didn’t finish Inktober until late February but I’m becoming much quicker with the ink. Next time I should have a supply of inked & painted postcards on the ready.
Okay, friend. Be well!
Let’s keep the mail moving,
PSL
How much is that Corona in the window?