Adapted to an incredibly comfortable Newari lifestyle: boiled eggs and homemade jam on hot roti for breakfast (with a fresh guava from the tree), excellent family for company, a great pair of dogs to fight with, and a rich and varied feast for dinner every night.

Trekked to remote Rara lake with a highly amusing bunch of people.

Got photographed with my post-trek novelty musketeer mustache (what else to do with 10 days' growth?) and our friends at the department of education.

Did a ferocious Haka at the hash and followed it up with a fairly unhinged expat party.

Took laptops to a school and saw real live kids actually enjoying doing schoolwork! It's SO satisfying to get out of the office and have fun with the kids and teachers.

The whole project is pretty intense: I flow smoothly up to crests (My God this will be fantastic!) and down through troughs (My God this will never work we're doing it all wrong!) and on the whole I love it. This is exactly the kind of hard and miserable fun that I'd missed from startup life. :-)

Next week we've lured the illustrious Bert Freudenberg to visit us and show off some Squeak hacking tricks. We'll also be teaching a one-day workshop of 30 people (programmers, teachers, students, kids) how to develop educational software with Etoys.

Haven't been taking photos!