Coker Coder

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Spent most of the day programming. Oddly enough, I meant to do something simple - work out weather changes each day, which is a matter of rolling a cyberdie and modifying it a bit if the weather has been clear or stormy the previous day, But I didn't get around to that. It was all framework stuff - setting up a mechanism to change the game number and to display it and to lock and unlock the comboBox. Riffling through four manuals before I got it working the way I like. So much fun just mucking about and tweaking a form - run it up, play with it, see something that isn't working quite right, twiddle with it until it's all schmick.

A bit of trading. Took a bit of profit form Santos and bought a bit more Amcor. Santos peaked and headed down, Amcor stayed much the same, but will probably go up. We'll see - getting cheesed off at seeing stocks shoot up, basking in the apparent wealth and then having them decline again. Sell 'em when there's a decent profit, that's the go. Pick 'em up again when they bounce off the bottom.

Anyway, that's the theory.

Good day Bookcrossing. Snarfed up the number of a book left in the Civic Library. Left it in the wild and released anothery - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard all the way from Canada. Got a journal entry on the release in the airport lounge from Sunday - the attendant who cleaned it up joined up and journalled it. And Jodie Minus, who wrote the article used in the high school English test contacted me and gave me a bit of background info. Contacted Uppsala's top Bookcrosser, who may or may not be able to get a book to Kerri for me to show around Canberra.

Sketched in my writing and travel plans for the next year - ferociously ambitious, but we'll see. Arranged for accomodation on the Gold Coast in July.

Got a want on ABEbooks for my grandfather's regimental history, copies of which are worth up to $US1000. Found one this morning for $US125. Snapped up - will see if it arrives. The last time I tried this the bookseller cancelled when they worked out their hideous mistake. Which reminds me. I really must put up my leather-bound copy of Leni Reifenstahl's Olympia with the gorgeous photography. With the Olympics coming up the demand should increase.

Got a ton of books to get off tomorrow. Must tear myself away from programming and attend to business. This Livejournal thing is a fiendish distraction.

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Good luck with that regimental history! [Not to make you drool or anything, but a friend of mine has a copy of the 1893 edition of Porter's "Fall River Tragedy", the first book published about the Lizzie Borden case. Rumor has it that the (surviving!) Borden family had nearly all of the copies bought up and destroyed; I have no idea if that's true, but the book's definitely rare.]