Hello BillKSmith,

...I remain a little lazy and a lot timid.

Can’t help with the lazy part :-) but with Strawberry Perl there’s no need to be timid: just install one of the PortableZip editions from here. A PortableZip edition is fully self-contained and won’t interfere with your system Perl at all, so if for whatever reason it doesn’t pan out you can return to your existing Perl without any hassle.

Hope that helps,