Charles continues to labor in his office. Today he was so busy that he took lunch in his office, which fortunately has a table and chair for that. It’s also a big office, with plants in it, as Charles explained to me today as I tried to discuss lunch arrangements with him. Charles quite likes both of these office features.
But what’s an office without official papers / money? Charles had taken to removing my mail off my desk and using it as props. I told him that he really shouldn’t be doing that and to try and make up for it, I got him a sheet of some 3-up certificate paper I had (which looks sort of like this). Presenting it to Charles caused him to break down in tears because it didn’t have writing on it. Suggesting that Charles make some writing on it didn’t improve his mood (although he did end up doing that later). I tried to write a shopping list for Mom on one but that brought another storm of tears because I used the wrong type of pen.
So I told Charles that I’d work on something for him and retreated to my photo editing studio and made this for him:
It looks better printed on the certificate paper, although Charles claimed all of the plain paper ones I’d printed to get the spacing right for the certificate paper.
Charles came in part way through and helped me with the editing. Originally I had used Erica’s picture in the middle, along with a sample of Charles’ simple but beautiful script. Charles objected very strongly to Erica’s picture, insisting that I use one of him. He helped me pick out his preferred picture. The script sample was removed as well and the denomination was changed to “4” instead of “1”. Charles likes four dollar bills much more than one dollar bills. I think it’s because he decided the first dollar I gave him was a four dollar bill. He was very happy with the final result, although wasn’t as happy that I’d spent the evening working on it.