Hey, I made it to Friday. Yay, me!

We’ve got preparations to make for the weekend tonight. I need to search through my old SCA garb and see what I have in there that will fit takaza. Fortunately, it’s going to be on the warm side this weekend (around 60) so I can rely on warm-weather stuff, which I have more of. I’m looking forward to the event because hopefully we’ll surprise some friends we haven’t seen in a while there. After that, it’s off to Rob and Janet’s place for an evening of Game and Game – venison, duck, and I’m not sure what else accompanied by various games like Outburst or Apples to Apples. My contribution will be fresh spinach sauteed with bacon and garlic. Not sure what Dan’s making yet.

Sunday will be lunch with some old friends from my Clemson days, which reminds me – I need to pick a restaurant and email them directions, since they’re only familiar with the People’s Republic of Chapel Hill and its environs. Hmmm…maybe Copelands? I’ll have to hit Citysearch and see what pops up in the Cary area. Nothing planned after that, except an evening at home and laundry. But that’ll be nice, too.

Dan emailed me with a bunch of info about upcoming theme park trips. Looks like we’ll be buying season passes for Six Flags and Paramount parks again this year. We’ll definitely be hitting Paramount’s Carowinds and Six Flags Over Georgia since they both have the cheapest season passes (yes, they’re good at any park in their respective systems, but some parks charge less for season passes. Go fig). We’re working on a plan that could take us up to Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, Cedar Point, and Paramount King’s Island this spring, but we need to coordinate the dates and vacation time. I think we’ll get to two of the three at best, but we’ll see. We’ll definitely be setting up the trip so we can meet up with Chicago friends (like Linnaeus and Datahawk and Posicat, at the very least) at the parks.

Looking at my friends list, I see that several folks have added me as a friend – yowza! If I don’t add you reciprocally, please don’t be offended; I only have so much time to read LJ sometimes, and until I learn to organize my Friends pages a bit better I’ll have to limit the number of folks on there. It’s a pleasure to meet some new folks, though, and learn a bit about their lives.