We interrupt this linguistic presentation ...

I'll finish up the notes from the invented languages conference tomorrow, I think. Too tired today. My after-work schedule got pushed off-kilter because the production unit I support had an after-hours social event at the local pool hall, and since it was right on my way home I stopped in for a couple hours. (And this Saturday is the company picnic at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk -- what a social whirl!) The current hoopla at work is one of those good news/bad news scenarios. The good news? The company that found a dead bird in one of their product supply tanks was not my company. The bad news? That company is one of our suppliers so a particular raw material is going to be tight for a while (since they basically have to throw out a half-year's production of the item). And I am so glad that I'm not the investigator who has to figure out how an English sparrow got into a theoretically-closed system. Oh, and I talked to my painting contractor today and we're getting started on the next phase of going over the house exterior in preparation for re-painting it. There's some useful progress. (So no more dreams about hiding dead bodies ... not even sparrows, ok?)