Anodyne
Thursday, March 27, 2008
 

8pm-11pm: building a small-scale relational database to inventory the store's used mass-market paperbacks. (Not quite from scratch; I had the help of Geoff Coffey and Susan Prosser's handy book, above, and Filemaker Inc.'s intuitive and surprisingly easy-to-use software). I just spent the last hour and a half loading up data and trying to crash the server. But it just ticks along like a Toyota Prius. So, never again will we pay cash for that 22nd copy of Stephen Coonts' Liars And Thieves or any book by Amanda Cross. Never again will a stack of Dan Brown's Digital Fortress topple from on high, nailing me right in the forehead. And never again will I buy Amanda Quick pocket books in the States, under the mistaken assumption that all the last ones sold.

Off home on the night bus with the year's first installment of Annual Report Season (Bank of Montreal) and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. An odd and often frustrating life, but I wouldn't trade it.
- posted by cjb @ 12:16 AM


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