Ok, Mom ;)

To be honest, I expected both a bit of resistance, and some "what you need to do first..." type feedback before I went ahead with it.

Thanks to Mom ( sorry ), the other posters, and to all those who have helped me throughout the years via other mediums.

Prior to publishing my code publicly, I'd like to officially say to all of the authors of books, docs, snips, sites, replies, papers etc that I can't thank you enough for what you've taught me, and it's my own mental issues that caused the code to come out the way it did, not you.

...stevieb, running off to read more about the details of cpan...

-stevieb