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I've been delaying composition of this Journal entry for the last thirty minutes primarily out of shame; I didn't do anything much today other than watch episodes from the fourth season of House, play a bit of skate, and stuff myself with junk food. Since I don't care to discuss House S4 at this time, I previously covered skate in great detail, and the only elaboration I care to make regarding my eating habits is that today's binge included an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's, I'll discuss something that got squeezed out of yesterday's entry.

At about noontime, my landlord's daughter arrived to take him to lunch at Maggio's, an Italian restaurant in Revere, MA that specializes in preparation of one of his and my favorite dishes: boiled tripe, served in a tomato sauce. I would normally take the opportunity for a bicycle ride, requesting that they return with a take-out serving that I could consume at my leisure, but given my current lack of a bicycle I decided to accompany them instead... and even that wasn't interesting.

There'll be little to no coding tomorrow. I have a late-morning appointment scheduled with my primary doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess, and I plan to take my usual long and meandering walk from the bus at Haymarket down Boylston and Newbury streets to the hospital and back again. I won't be back until late afternoon at the earliest, or perhaps even early evening if I decide to dine in the area.

As has often been the case, staring fruitlessly at one source code file brought to mind new frontiers that must be braved in others. Staring at the PDO database block in my Journal user interface, which I'll need to lace with status checks to provide redundancy, impressed on me that I must make some provision for database unavailability in my authentication code as well. Doing so will require a degree of familiarity with PDO, along with its various functions and methods, that I'm sorry to say I haven't attained.