I took most of August off again, similar to last year. Today was my first day back, and wow, how different work is from relaxing at a small lake house in Maine! While things had mostly gone smoothly in my absense, there was plenty of stuff piled up for me to deal with. Naturually a lot of it is urgent. Much of it has to do with the new CSAIL web site, which is nearing deployment. Those are the most time sensitive issues, anyway, since the administration wants to deploy the site very soon (a week, roughly, depending on various bug squashing cycles.)

It's good to be back, though.