grand total time spent on assignment: 8 hours
amount of caffeine injested: 1500 mg
hours sleep lost: 3.5
pages of formatted source code: 12
expletives uttered: countless
feeling of satisfaction of getting it all done and working despite horrible procrastination and apathy: priceless
wah! don't remind me of the days at university when we were programming in pascal, basic & cobol - back in 1986! *shudder*