Geeking out!

YES! Made my first MySQL database and queried it via PHP and fixed connection problems and actually extracted some data!

Here are the amazing results:
SOOOO proud of myself (and who wouldn't be? Did you get a gander at that data??). I'd circled around MySQL for several weeks now, trying to find out if there was something easier I could use for web database stuff, but finally took advantage of the long weekend to take the plunge and discovered I didn't need anything simpler. (used this excellent introductory tutorial). I'd been studying JavaScript for the last few weeks, so was pleased to find PHP rather accessible. By Monday, I got close to figuring it all out, but ran into a connection problem, and didn't have time to get back to it until today, but I got in there and DID it. All By Myself.

And now the world is my oyster - ANYTHING is possible. All the ideas in my head can find their way to the screen!

In another minor miracle of technology, my awesome much-utilized digital watch/stopwatch/alarm (aka Watchy), the screen of which had freaked out a week ago, came back to life today. Will make a note that it doesn't like to go in the water anymore... Maybe I can get it to talk to my Palm (aka Palmy), whose screen is also on the blink for some reason...

In less-geeky more-cool but no-less-exciting news, the first rehearsal last week was an amazing experience. Total collaborative and creative process. We improvised some back story and I was actually moved to tears by these two women adding weight to the characters I had created...