As of today, there is nothing more for me to do on the client project that has dogged me for a month. The last form is completed, the script works well, and I am done. Of course there will be minor tweaks, but there is no more real work to be done. This feels very, very good. Whee!!!

Built a Java compiler on home.ooi.net today. I know nothing about Java. Also nothing about databases. In today's Web world, it seems I'm missing a rather significant chunk of the important tools! As always, I'm still trying to learn more Perl and PHP and JavaScript. On the subject of this Web server, home.ooi.net has been getting a pile of visits from Web-indexing robots. It'll be nice to be able to search the Web for OOI employees and have this server come up.

David J. taught the art staff about dynamic HTML today. I sat in on the class here and there, between things I was working on. He explains himself well and knows how to engage an audience's attention — skills useful not only for teaching effectively, but simply for communicating effectively. It is a rarity and a pleasure to find someone in the technology business who simultaneously knows his stuff and knows how to share his knowledge. Won't you visit his Web site?

Played softball at Freiberger Field (behind CWRU's Kelvin Smith Library). I hit the ball successively harder in my first three at-bats, doubling each time. It was very satisfying to smack the hard ball deep into right field with the tiny wooden bat. Just as we began to tire of playing in the afternoon heat, Freiberger's sprinkler system kicked in, thereby changing the face of the game. Fielders positioned themselves between rotating vertical sheets of mist; hitters grasped the bat more firmly (I unintentionally threw it — twice — rather close to the first baseman!); baserunners started sliding, gathering loose grass on their person; and everybody, already relaxed, just stood in the wet and chilled out. It was a great time. Play sprinkler softball sometime.