Friday, glorious Friday! It's just amazing out there right now - mid-70's with a good stiff breeze. The front's supposed to come in later today bringing with it rain and temperatures into the 30's, more January-like than anything we've had for the last few weeks. It'll be a welcome change, though.

(Completely pointless aside: I have commaphilia. This is, of course, the tendency to put commas all over the damn place whether they're kneaded or not. I usually try to edit out the extraneous ones, but if you see any extras please pretend they're hyphens or maybe (just for fun) an interrobang.)

Hmmph. I always knew I was a frustrated English major. Silly me, I wanted a degree I could actually make money with (dodges thrown objects from Liberal Arts majors everywhere :-)

It's been a quiet week in Holly Springs...no wait, that opening belongs to someone else. Anyway, we've been doing the married-folks-at-home thing a lot this week, so just to be different we're getting some of the gang together and going to San Remo's for dinner tonight, followed by either a show at Six String Cafe or chatting at the Paradigm Coffee House. In general, a nice, low-key kind of night that gets us out of the house.

I'm a bit concerned about takaza. He's had a headache pretty much nonstop since Sunday, and headaches aren't supposed to do that. By all the symptoms, I'm strongly suspecting a sinus infection. He's got an appointment with the doctor this afternoon, which makes me feel better. I love my wolf, but he's mighty stubborn sometimes :-)

Plans for this weekend include another nice, lazy day tomorrow; maybe I'll even get motivated and do my taxes, since I've got all the forms in hand now. Sunday should be a nice, though chilly day. Another great day for a hike, I think - I'll see if anyone is interested at dinner tonight.

Enough of my scattered prattle. I've got to head back to work and go make some coatings, yay.

Oh, by the way - The News and Observer had an interesting interview with the president of Lord Corporation (my employer) where he talks about the neat stuff we do. It's a good interview, and he even mentions some of the products I'm working on. Cool!