The military is developing an invisible tank.

Okay, invisible I suppose I can accept, since I’ve seen science news for invisibility cloaks/clothing for years now.

BUT

Really. Come on. What is the point of making a TANK invisible, since it’s not like it’s STEALTHY or anything. “Oh my! There’s a tremendous noise coming from that direction but I don’t see anything! That must mean I should ignore the noise and go about my business!”

So I have achieved all my primary goals for my database.

There are plenty of other tweaks I’d like to make, but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate the fact that I did everything I initially set out to do.

YIPPEE!

(happy dance)

So the database is coming along nicely, though I don’t think writing code counts towards my November writing goals.

As of now, the database has all the administrative functions I wanted to add. Although it could use a few tweaks, it does everything I wanted: I can search by author, title, series, genre, or year. I can enter new books, edit existing books, and delete books.

Last function to be added is going to require a lot of grunt work, and that will be linking individual book reviews to the database.

I got up early this morning and wrote for about 20 minutes before work. Revised through chapter two one. I’m going to try and get out of bed a little earlier each morning, so I can write for a few minutes longer each morning. I figure this will be easier after daylight savings time ends.

Additionally, we had our traditional number of trick-or-treaters last night: 0. At least we save every year on candy.

ADDENDUM the First:
It’s interesting, the revisions I’m doing. Since I just wrote without thinking, coming back after more than a year, it’s pretty easy to see the problems in the text. So far, the biggest issue is that I had very few details: I hadn’t actually described any of the characters, so they were simply amorphous beings without height, weight, or (for the most part) style. Easy enough to fix though.