Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I was sitting out front of the house the other night with my brother (he was cutting 4″ PVC tube so I'd have a more useful grip on my pullup bar) and a chubby racoon hopped out of the fence and wandered over to us, sniffing around the edges of the houses for garbage. Jon noticed one of the raccoon's lazy relax-in-the-sun places on a chimney in the houses south of us. Click for a closeup if you want.

I'm making a few software changes to the way images are processed (running an experiment!) over the next week or so, so I might not be able to get the update posted tonight. I've been debating changing some of the image quality guidelines, so Phil and I are fine-tuning the software to handle that.

We cleaned our house top to bottom today because Nefarious is back soon from her adventures with Rachel and her grandmother. Other than that, I'm continuing to plug away at this database project, but somehow I've introduced an error in one of my string parsing routines that's making me bonkers, mostly because I can only test it at a late stage in the build, so every time I miss a bug I waste ten minutes watching a build crash.