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It's official. Jess and I have received our "1st Violation Letter" from our Home Owners Association manager.
It states:
bq. During a recent property inspection, the following violation was noted at your residence: *The grass and weeds in the flower beds.* The Savannah COmmunity Association kindly reminds you that Article 7 (Construction and Use Restrictions), specifically [...]

Okay. Since it flopped two weekends ago, and last weekend was too busy with Turkey-Day and all… Let's try this again.
*Who*: You!
*What*: Your cash in my pocket (aka: texas hold 'em)
*Where*: The Plantation (aka: La Casa de "Farris Goldstein":http://gentlenews.com/)
*When*: This Friday
*Why*: Cause you don't have anything better to do.
RSVP here. Now.

I stumbled upon "Phpersistence":http://www.phpersistence.org/ today, a PHP4 library attempting to duplicate the functionality of Java's Hibernate.
I jumped for joy. Then I cried.
The code is actually pretty well written. It's capable of allowing normal objects that haven't extended any special classes to persist. But there are some pretty hefty problems.
99% of all the setup for what [...]