Today was a good day. Lucy and I made it to the fitness club and then I ran the first meeting of the 
perl study group. It went very well! I got through the topics I was expecting and everyone seemed to be able to tweak their script and run it. We only touched on the very beginnings of regular expressions, but it was enough. Joe wanted to know about advanced topics, so I kept having to jump ahead (or jump sideways or jump into hyperspace) to answer his questions. It's great to do stuff with Joe.
At lunch time, Alisa took me to the barber shop and we got my hair cut. I have short hair for the first time in about 10 years. I started growing a pony tail about the time Charlie was born. Now I have a crew cut. I'll try to get a new picture to replace the picture on the front page sometime tomorrow.
In the afternoon, I had several appointements with faculty who needed various things: help with connecting to servers, help with purchasing a new computer, etc. Later, George came by and we worked on the calendaring system. We had been pleased when we found that iCal could save calendars to https addresses. Today we discovered that they cannot read calendars from https URLs. Stupid!!! So we're looking at the 
Mozilla Calendar Project. The interface isn't as pretty, but it looks like it's actually more functional.
I have arranged ESNE receptions at both NASK and ISE! It would be great if I could find someone to help run them, but at least minimally, they will happen. This is a tremendous step. I've also learned that members of the public will be able to take the ILEI/UEA exams at NASK, even though they're not students. I should probably do that, but I probably won't.
I continue to make progress on the new ESNE website. I'm rather pleased with it. Hopefully, it will be ready to post within a week or so. It might take longer if I got comments from other people, but no-one has commented so far (other than Philip and Alisa and other people I can sit on). I did get Allan to agree to try getting me postscript versions of the Verda Lumo editions, so we can build PDFs. It could happen. It's not bad progress for 10 days.