OK, if i didn't acknowledge it before, i will now

I'm hopeless. I'm a geek. While we were out on our walk last night, we stopped in and talked to Christine, as much because clearance stuff was an extra 50% off as because alexander treats the store as his own personal all-ages dance club.

Anyway, she was in just too bubbly a mood, so i called her a perkigoth, which actually seemed to be really well received. What else could a pierced, tattooed individual with blue, purple, and black hair and general skin tone just slightly less pallid than a standard sheet of printer paper be when in that perky a mood?

Anyway, for whatever reason, “perkigoth” stuck in my head, and, well, it sounded like the name of a display font- probably not something you'd want to do a lot of text in, but useful for little bits of graphics here and there. So the idea started banging around in my cranium, and this morning, with a fair idea of what i think it looks like, i started doing preliminary concept sketching of what some of the letters might be like. We'll see if it's ever anything developed enough to show anyone.

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Well, as days go, today almost kicked ass. Plan was to head into Seattle and go to the zoo, the Science Centre or the Museum of Flight. None of those happened. By the time we had eaten lunch and were ready to head out of the Valley, it was almost 1:30, so we planned to checking clearance stuff at Hot Topic in Everett (at Christine's suggestion), and then Half-Price Books right across the street. Afterwards, we headed to the U District, and stopped at Gargoyles' on the Ave, and then called Mike, an old buddy of mine (we started our careers in the software industry in the same training class at Keane about five years ago, and have worked together doing Win95 and IE 4 support, then later at Humongous/Cavedog) for coffee and headed back to his place to hang out for a while, which was really pretty cool. Anyway, we're going to have to hang out some weekend- probably do the Mercury or someplace one Friday night, because he's starting to reinvent a social life after the demise of a five-year relationship, and i'm starting to try to create one fresh.