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By Dave, December 13, 2004 7:44 pm

bit by bit anyway. got the room walls taken out at the 14×66 as well as the front entry. moved the front door to the front wall instead of inset 3 feet into the room. feels completely different in there now even with all the stuff torn up has a much more open and less oppressive feel to it. guess I am going to take the bathroom and the other inside room out too. will start with some of the shelving supports first. Not sure but may use the steel uprights and ends and use the wood just for shelves. bit by bit.

still haven't done any more with the case dozer. sitting in the drive in front of the barn blocking the drive very effectively. got the brick formed and ready to weld but haven't had the time when there was initiative to do the job. want the gear to be somewhat warm when I start this too but don't think that is going to be any time soon. guess I will have to build a fire and heat it and me too. depending on the daytime temps tomorrow I may try to do something there cause by wednesday morning i think the ground may be hard enough to move the trailer over if I have the dozer going.

checked the antifreeze in all the running vehicles today. had to add a bit to the van and topped the others off. while doing that I got to thinking about the john deere dozer with all the water in the oil… so drained it too. was a real treat but think we got enough out to do the job. I may just add oil back in and use it to pull the trailer. should run long enough to to that if it isn't royally screwed. ran for nearly an hour before I thought to add water the first time and that was in the summer. little 2 cylinder gm diesel seems to be a sweet engine. anyway if the final drive will hold together in it long enough and the engine will run long enough may just try that.

after many more arduous hours spent pouring over cms and e-commerce programs I have about decided to go with <a href="http://www.agoracart.com/">agora</a>. have used it and both of its predecessors before so the code nor way of doing things is totally new. some of the workings are new. some better and some worse though the newest beta release promises to bring css to the cart so that will be a GOOD THING. there is still way to much code mixed in with the html and way to much html and code mixed in with the style too. but on the other hand I in less than 2 days i installed the program and have gotten the interface close to what we needed AND added 1892 books to the database. the site auto generates the categories list in the sidebar as well as builds all the pages on the fly. using a flat file database right now. will have to move over to the mysql version within a few thousand more books but for now it works quick enough and is easy enough to get up and going fairly quick.

now to start the automation of the cover scanning resizing and renaming process. supposed to be a way that i can automate the folders on the iBook to perform a task upon a action. wondering if i can get them set up so when i scan in the hp scan program and save the file in the folder the folder script opens the image in graphic converter, resizes it, saves it as the smaller size then makes a thumbnail out of it and renames the thumbnail with an additional sm_ in front of the 6 digit name. next folder taking and uploading the new files that were dropped into it when gc saves them, to the server and then moves them to the archive folder. guess I need to lay it out and see if it will be workable.

Just got off the phone with Rob after talking him through setting up a new computer running xp with a cable modem using ethernet. took a while but the result was positive and he is now online.

tis late and so am i…