OpenOffice rocks. It only takes 25 seconds to start on my machine, and the font system is pretty darn cool. I haven’t played around with it very much yet, though. I’ve been very pleased with it so far. It’s come a long way from the old StarOffice.

Work went well. I’m definitely getting the hang of XSLT and XPath. XPath is incredibly cool. Wait, didn’t I say that yesterday? It’s quite true, though. On Monday I get a new assignment, though I’m not sure yet what it’ll be.

Has it really been a month and a half since I got my mission call? Good heavens, that went by fast. I haven’t done much Thai study lately, which is entirely my fault. I’ve let myself get sidetracked with all of these different projects. I’m going to start a real study program soon, though.

I put in almost an hour and a half of typing in The Ball and the Cross. I’m pretty close now (220/254 pages). Within a week I’ll finish it, certainly. And then I’ll start working on the Icelandic primer again. (I’ve decided to finish Ball first, since doing two projects at once isn’t as good an idea as I thought.)