One of the larger problems with porting this Acc2K app (or technically, collection of apps) to xAMP is that there's too much data to be neatly amenable to portage via dumping and importing. My plan to bridge the transitional period and make data sync'ing sane was to add support into the Acc2K MDB project to "flip" between native and MySQL data sources. I'd done a lot of groundwork back in 2010 before a series of other distractions backburnered the porting project. Acc2K and the MySQL ODBC Connectors wor... (...more)

I'm sure I went to sleep before midnight, because CA guild battle ended around 9PM and I remember thinking around 11 "if I get to sleep soon I might actually catch next battle from the beginning". So then I woke past noon, and for once not because I woke for hours in the middle of the night/too-early morning :O This despite that second cup of coffee mid-afternoon, and without a glass of wine to soften me up in the evening. Missed guild battle AND festival battle, but not complaining. Second-to-last of t... (...more)

The chili was more liquid than I wanted - almost filled the saucepan - so I left it on low and slow to reduce. So slow that I fell asleep, actually, and then woke at 2AM to find my chili reduced by about 3 cups and getting burned on the bottom. It was fortunately salvageable, but the clean-up this morning took some work. A nice half cantaloupe for breakfast, a scramble dog wrap and maybe a half-serving of chili for lunch, a banana to carb up, a second coffee because I just wasn't feeling the energy for ... (...more)

Seems Merona black A-shirts aren't a thing at Target anymore. Kind of a shame, because their "small" fit me just right as gym wear, whereas a Fruit of the Loom small might fit me less tightly than a sausage casing when I get my weight back down under the 171-173# inflection point. At this time, that stuffed-sausage look is not a good one for me. So with my heavier gym schedule I need to expand my supply of gym shirts. Unfortunately, FotL and Hanes do not package A-shirts in single colors. You will buy a... (...more)

A few weeks or so ago I noticed Flora 4-cheese tortelloni (not tortellini, whatever) at the Big Pubilx's half-price entryway displays. Aside from being half-price, they were sealed to store at room temp with a "best by" date six months off. And tortellini is comfort food. So, that was attractive. Comparing with Celantano frozen tortellini at $3.79 a bag, 4.5 servings per bag with 9g protein and 270 kcal per serving, and I'd split a bag into 2 meals. The Flora is $2.99 a package (full price), 3 servings... (...more)