Second day on the job. Putting up type. That’s what I do, for now. Getting decades old dust on my fingers and feeling fine. Long hours on my feet. Pulling open wrong drawers all over the place. Theys don’t write down what theys set, so you gotta hunt around. Most of the time it’s easy–6 pica gothic no. 2, or 20 pica no. 3. Then there is the Antique wood. And the stuff that ain’t got names nor numbers. Then all the lead type spread all over the shop–but most of the time it is Franklin Condensed or Farmers Condensed or John Hancock. Sometimes you see Tower or Stymie. I want to keep trying that old News Gothic drawer, but it ain’t ever the one. A whole lot furniture to put away–just measure and shelve. 72 pica, presswide. 12 points to a pica. 6 picas to an inch. Those leads are 4.5 picas wide–don’t put the 4 leads in the 5. Remember the dingbat drawers. Star bars go in the star drawer. Sunbursts with the sunbursts. Hell, there’s even a microphone/radio tower drawer. Yesterday, a man came in looking to buy a poster. He said he was a longtime customer. Yeah, that poster near the ceiling–the huge PECO Gas advertisement, printed in red from one woodblock–that was his. Printed in 1940, he was the guy who ordered it. Just another day.