Woe is me

[selenay]

Waah! I am still at work, nearly two hours after I should have left! I was
working on a report to put in a fix for a data issue. Which was cool. Except
then I broke it a tiny bit so I've had to re-run it (again!) and that is
what I am doing.

Waiting.

Can't go anywhere until it is finished.

Just waiting a bit more.

Gah! I want some supper! Me is a starved person. Plus I have a stonking
headache. *So* glad that we're heading into a weekend. May have to indulge
in very large amounts of chocolate tonight while watching slushy films.

Comments

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

And get some Chinese food too. Indulge yourself! *hugs*

[selenay]

I was good and virtuous and did not get an Chinese food last night.

Er, instead I had some rather excellent sausages from my local, award-winning butcher :-) After all, I did hit an all you can eat Chinese thing on Sunday...

*g*

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

Works for me too :)

[paranoidangel]

*hugs* This is why I keep food at work. Although all the chocolate and biscuits in the world won't replace dinner at the end of the day.

Chocolate and slushy films sounds good though.

A question about your icon - I've seen the font on it on quite a few icons in various places. It looks really useful for text because it's still readable when small. Do you know what it's called? I joined a SJA icon contest comm where you make icons from images provided, so given that my icon making skills run to not much more than sticking interesting text on stuff, that font looks really handy.

[selenay]

See, food would just get nibbled on all day and then I would be Fat. So I have an emergency chocolate stash and that's it. Dinner was very welcome when I eventually got some! And chocolate was accompanied by Battlestar Galactica rather than slushy films (due to the lateness when I finally appeared at home) but was equally fun.

The font that I used on the icon is called Silkscreen. It can be found at Dafont and downloaded for free. It looks best at around 6px, which is why it's perfect for icon making. And you need to turn off anti-aliasing when using it for maximum readability. It's an upper case only font, but actually the pixel/bitmap fonts look best in upper case.

[paranoidangel]

I can't last the day without eating snacks, hence part of the need for a food stash at work. But I don't allow myself elevenses till after 11am and no tea till after 4pm.

Thanks for that font! I've had a play with it and it seems to work best at 5px for me. I can see why it's good for icons though, because any bigger looks horrid.