July 7th, 2012:

	Finally had the time and inclination to set the Ultra 5 up.  
Apart from changing a few things around in my SDF home directory, I didn't 
do much.  Hell, I don't really remember what I've installed on the 
machine, it's been a few months since I installed Solaris 10.  I know I 
have my notes somewhere, but I suspect they're buried in the home office.

	I picked up a few books on programming at Value Village today, 
mostly O'Reilly books, for five bucks a pop.  Granted, they are anything 
but current, but I'm sure most of the information will still be relevant.

The books I picked up were:

Lex and Yacc (O'Reilly)
DNS and BIND (O'Reilly)
Programming Perl (O'Reilly)
Perl Cookbook (O'Reilly)
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison Wesley)

	Pretty heavy stuff for me, a non-programmer, but I'm planning to 
spend my self-imposed year off learning C, Perl, Python, et cetera.  
Since my Unix skills are improving and I can do pretty much anything I 
need to do without much bother, I thought learning some basic programming 
skills would do me a bit of good.  Lord knows, it'll make building stuff 
from source a lot easier when I fully inderstand what's going on.  As it 
stands, I have a 30% success rate when it comes to compiling from source.  
Hoping to improve that rate...