I didn't have very many hours today, between coming in late from a doctor's appointment and leaving early for a weekend trip. But I've been making up hours this week in advance, and I'll make up the rest next week.

I looked through the replies to my Catalyst mailing list queries, and continued trying to debug my database stuff. I'm pretty confused by now. I did try to connect to Andy's database instead, but I'm even less sure of what I'm doing there (don't know the file path to the .db file, etc), so I'm going to leave it the way it was for now.

Someone did respond to my question in the Gentoo forums about running commands on startup. We finally got it worked out! I have to use the ~/.xprofile file. I also looked at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .

Notes for Monday:

• I have 4 hours to make up
• Check on Tuesday's schedule
• Handy command: "su -" instead of "su" -- it's safer
• Keep working on getting Catalyst running with the db model, with help from my thread on the mailing list (once I hear back).
• Look at "todo" list doc