Br-r-r!

I haven't been listening too closely to any telecasts, but Galina told me the weather forecasters are calling this the coldest January 15 the Houston area has experienced since 1917. I believe it. Walking the dogs was no fun, for either me or the dogs.

The Routine Stuff™ was fairly light this morning, so I spent the bulk of the day despeckling, getting about 22,000 words into their go-to-meeting finery and out the door. There's about 36,000 words left in the job, and I hope I can get a good chunk of that done tomorrow (along with a translation of a 1,500-word author's bio that is, if anything, more complex than the rest of the material). I'm looking forward to invoicing the job, that's for sure. I represents a bunch of time, spent here and there when things were slow over the past couple of months.

The paperwork for the new LLC arrived today. Besides whatever needs to get done tomorrow, I'll need to review it and then make sure all the details are taken care of, so I can formally announce a name change to my clients.

* * *My Word-fu got a boost today during the despeckling process when I had to figure out a way to look for words like образ and орбразец (and their declined forms, e.g., образа, образу, образом, образе, образы, образов, образам, образами, and образах just for образ) while avoiding having to slog through variations of the word образование during the search.

I ended up creating a search string that used wild cards:

обра[а-я]{1,5}>

which basically specifies a search for "обра" immediately followed by between one and five lower-case Cyrillic characters, followed by 'end-of-word', which is denoted by the '>' sign. Without that '>' sign—and I'll admit I learned this the hard way—the search string would still stop at the frequently encountered образование (hey, there's "обра", immediately followed by five Cyrillic characters, immediately followed by even more Cyrillic characters, y'dig?).

Live and learn.

Cheers...