Total brainwarp this afternoon. A trip to the public library yielded texts on relational databases using FileMaker Pro 5, two excellent introductory texts on XML, and an interesting read on Apache servers. The proverbial technology ship has come in here at Monroe County Library. Anyway, it will be an interesting bike ride home this evening as I don’t have anything to carry the books I will check out. Oh well, the pain and suffering I must go through in order to bring you, my loyal readers, the highest quality web goodies.

We took a quick ride out to Kliendorf’s, a trip to yesteryear. It is a hardware store that holds just about any spare part to any thing manufactured since about 1937. Sifting through the piles of stuff we were continually assaulted by a inexplicable army of plaster yard animals. Obviously an outdoor sale gone awry several years back or something. Anyhoo, on nearly every shelf in some vaguely camoflauged position was a twelve inch plaster squirrel, dog, tortise, rabbit, or owl. A bit unnerving.

Another hour or so at the library and then off for ice cream! Hooray! Such is the joyful life lead by Fezboy!