It is somehow appropriate that I would start the next day meeting with Marie-Helene who chairs the Fench and Italian department from which they were divorced. To calm me, I had lunch with Betty Leydon who squinted a little less and talked to me about IT, something I knew before I moved into the new job. Later that day, I visited with Scott Tremaine who chairs the astrophysical sciences department.

At this point -- Wednesday afternoon -- it was time to move on to bigger things, so I headed to the machine shop. This design of a camera that records its info on a Mac was being touted by this gentleman whose name escapes me except that he insists that he and Michele are good friends and we've met before. I was really there to see Glenn Northey who was going to make great strides on the penny project. As we had done at ChefRob's, we recorded the details of his shop including the CNC machine the drill press the bits the lathe and the student machines in the lab and the larger lathe stopping on the way back to watch him use the micrometer to get numbers for his ProEngineer design of one groove and then 10 for a module.

On the way back to reality, we ran into Ben Kaplan and Carol Mason who seemed more grounded.