Latest update in the ongoing Monday morning meeting saga: bus drove right past the stop by the office. Had to walk back a couple blocks. Then I waited in the elevator for a minute while it failed to work before going to another elevator. I ended up just about exactly as late as the sum of these two unfortunate events. Random Chance 1, Amitai 0.

David Johnson is away for the week. I will have to find my fun elsewhere.

Spent a couple hours filling in some blanks in the new home design. I still have to work out a scheme for easily making all the system pages inherit the basic design. PHP and Server-Side Includes will help; Embperl could, too.

Had my first school-related exam in over a year. The Data Structures test was fairly straightforward, and I think I did pretty well except for the part on finding the internal and external path lengths of a binary tree. I learned it afterward pretty easily. And it is the learning that is important.

Phi Kap alumnus Joe DiFranco was at the house when I got there after class. It was nice to see him again. He is studying hard at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. Joe is “old-school”, which I appreciate on its own merits as well as for a change of pace.

Paul Jarc gave a seminar on regular expressions at today's CWRULUG meeting. He explained the basics of using regexes in C, Unix, Perl, elisp, and m4. He knows his stuff and explains it well. I'm scheduled for a Perl talk in November, but from the looks of things I will instead be elucidating OpenBSD on that date. I am excited about sharing some of the things I've learned.