All morning I've been thinking about that saying ("I've had good luck"). What does that mean? Is it lucky that store A had product Z? I suppose, but wouldn't it be more apropos to say something like "I've been totally successful in my search for suitable goods"? If you go to a shoe store and find a shoe you like, is that lucky? What if you go to the grocery store and scream "HEY JACKPOT BABY! Lucky us, they have bread!" - is that lucky? If nothing else this ingrained term reveals our capitalist tendencies, for better or worse. It also tells us something about the level of discontent we're willing to settle for (almost none) even when buying gifts for other people. This is the inverse tragedy of the commons, because we care even though it doesn't affect us.

When breaks roll around I try not to have projects in line, but this one will be an exception to that, as I am going to try to put together the most sophisticated webpage I've ever done. The project is for Ross' art collection, which I may have mentioned beore, and completing means building a very modular, very updateable site that will have to be about 100 pages and able to expand with the collection. To that end I am saving cascading style sheet tutorials on my machine in anticipation of days spent in the pit learning by doing - hopefully I will have a beta by the New Year!