Back at the New York Corflu, when rich
brown suggested we consider helping
with this issue of SFFY, November 1991
seemed comfortably far off. There were
18 months -- plenty of time to finish paint-
ing the house, stabilize a new business, get
the mimeo center set up, and publish a
fanzine or three to break it in, right?
Right. Being practicing followers of the
philosophy of P. T. Barnum, we gave rich
the o. k. to put forth the motion to LeeH.
Soon it was official, 'though why she didn't fire us after receiving a bag
containing a stick surrounded by a miniature lake of melted chocolate, we'll
never know. Don't ever send a chocolate sucker to Florida in May. Or
chocolate anything.

Time passed. Seasons came and went. They mostly went. Summer fell
on a weekend, but we were too busy to have a picnic. Welcome to life a la
Toad Hall. Halloween brought 28 inches of snow -- HEAVY, slushy snow.
And ice dams, which lead to rainstorms in the dining room. Oh, joy. So now
it' s November -- time to mail SFFY! Whoa, oh where does the time go?

At least we found a moment or two for a few publishing projects. Jeff
built the Toad Hall Champion Mimeo Center and Frog Preserve (complete
with a Champion spark plug sign). It boasts seven Gestetners, two of which
are currently working. Two others will no doubt work wonderfully just as
soon as Jeff has "just a few hours to work on the impression rollers." The
other three mimeos we're saving for parts. We also keep a Rex Rotary and
A. B. Dick around -- Just In Case. Then there are the two E-stencilers, and
the corresponding note for the attic office: "Please contact the Electro-
stenciling Department before starting up LaserWriter." (Ah, the joys of
8-amp appliances and sensitive light amplification circuits.)

The first real test of our multi-color mimeography capabilities came last
spring with the publication of Beyond the Enchanted Duplicator To the
Enchanted Convention, by Walt Willis and James White (Famous Fans
You' ve Read and Read About in These Very Pages). We found a local
supplier of affordable Fibertone (Logos Productions --$ 4.30/ream) and set
up an account with Gestetner to obtain their ridiculously-priced colored
inks. Be warned: the colors you see in these pages are the only ones they
still carry. Oh for the days of purple, orange, and two shades of green.
We may start trying printer's inks as soon as Jeff figures out how to feed
the ink from a can rather than a tube, and if we can find ink that dries
properly. I can see it now: 1,000 PMS colors, plus the metallics and
pastels! Well, if we have to cut back, I could do without Pantone 458....

The best part about working on SFFY has been: letters from LeeH;
talking with contributors; seeing it all come together; and, at last, sending
it to You (It' s done! It' s done!) . Let' s have celebrate at MagiCon. If you're reading this, you should be there.

See you on the funway ...

-- Geri Sullivan

Data entry by Judy Bemis
Hard copy provided by Geri Sullivan

Data entry by Judy Bemis

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