We've come to 
JavaBaba again to use the wireless network. We had our traditional breakfast at the Hatchery, but came here for coffee and networking. Snapper is dead again this morning -- I'm not there to fix it, so I guess it just stays dead until the technical staff wake up. Sigh...
Today, I'm to run a haiku workshop, as usual, and a bunch of people want to use my computer for showing things during the kultura vespero, so I get to play multimedia consultant for much of the day today. I do appreciate the chance to show people how easy it is to do this stuff with a Mac, though. It doesn't help, though -- people still don't get it. They only see that I'm some kind of wizard and not that its using a Mac that makes the difference. Yesterday in Monato I saw that the redaktoro's computer had been wiped out two years in a row by viruses: Sobig one year and Sasser the next. But he's still just using his PC. I don't know what it is, but a lot of people just can't seem to understand that you don't have to go through that.
Yesterday afternoon, there was a long discussion about where to hold the Internacia Semajnfino Esperantista next year. The organizers originally chose Okemo by drawing a line between Montreal and New York and between Ottawa and Boston -- the line intersects right around Okemo. The past ten years, however, have shown that ISE is increasingly drawing from farther west and farther south: From Toronto and Washington and North Carolina. And finding someplace that would make it easier for people to fly might bring in even more people. Making a new calculation, it looked like Albany was the place to go. After checking many places around Albany, they settled on a hotel. Marta, however, recommended a place called Silver Bay. Through a long and sometimes contentious meeting, Normando led us through considering all the options and eventually the vast majority settled on Silver Bay. So next year, ISE will be there.
I conducted my annual haiku workshop. In the past, I've collected a bunch of pictures related to some theme and gotten people to write haiku about pictures. I was busy enough this year that I didn't do that. Instead, I asked them if they wanted a theme and what the theme should be. There were several different ideas, but mostly people just tried to write any kind of haiku. I read a few of my haiku to try to get people in the spirit and then collected a dozen haiku from them which I built into a presentation to be read during the Kultura Vespero.
This year, more than any other, I served as a technical consultant to people who wanted to present. Several people wanted to show pictures and one woman wanted to play some MP3 files, so it was nice to be able to help out. The haiku were well received. I showed pictures from my trip to Slovakio. Things finally wrapped up around 11pm and Lucy and I went back and watched the end of the Cardinals game.