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Right after my last post I finished reading Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima. It was pretty good for the most part. There were a couple stories that were really good, especially "Onnagata." Then Mary Beth and I went up to the Brooks to see Film and Notfilm. The former being Samuel Beckett's lone contribution to cinema, the latter being a documentary (or "kino essay") about the whole thing. They both were really good. In spite of the consensus of Film being a failure (by Beckett as well, at least to an extent). The documentary offered quite a bit of insight to all sorts of things. And it was weird hearing Beckett's actual voice! (secretly recorded by Barney Rosset). Not as much of a surprise as hearing Joyce's voice, though a little jarring (in that, while not being nearly as leprechaun-irish as Joyce's, it was still more irish than I'd "expected"? I dunno, this statement sounds really dumb). What else? I had fun at work adding even more structure to the unit test classes. I also got to write more tests and figure out more things for a new web service I wrote (spent more time working on the tests than the pretty simple service!). But I did realize a problem at the very very end of the day. While mocking the database is great for the most part, it makes it impossible to test any logic in sql statements. I wonder if there's a way to get around this. I'll have to look into it I guess.