Noon already?

The document sent to me as a series of semi-legible JPEGs is done and gone. Unfortunately, it took very nearly 6 hours to finish, between yesterday and today.

Through it all, the idea of commissioning a special "Illegible" TrueType font kept breaking the surface. Actually, three such fonts kept coming to mind: "Extralight" (where glyphs only hint at what the character might be), "Ambiguity Light" (where glyphs such as "B" and "8" and "S" and "5" look identical), and "Ambiguity Soft" (where glyphs are so blurry, there's no way to distinguish, say, "i" from "l", "e" from "o", or "t" from "f").

Well, at least the stuff left on the plate is legible. (How easy it is to please me!)

Cheers...

Spendin' time with Mr. Walker...

I got a call to do a quickie for a Houston client, which I did while waiting for the kids to come pick me up for store duty (as it had rained and I was in no mood to get muddy as well as tired on the trek into work). My reward was a request to do more such rush work, or editing after hours if I couldn't turn the stuff around fast enough.

I declined, saying that I could squeeze in a few hundred words of translation almost any time, but editing was simply not a good use of my time.

Or words to that effect.

Nothing much happened while I was at the store, except being overcome by a feeling that I really didn't want to do much more work qua work today.

So I made some linguine, cracked a can of white clam sauce, and am currently gliding on currents courtesy of one Mr. James Walker, of Kilmarnock, Scotland.

Moreover, they're currents of just the right intensity.

Cheers...