diff --git a/mysecrets.py b/mysecrets.py
index df28dc9..df273be 100755
--- a/mysecrets.py
+++ b/mysecrets.py
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ from urllib import urlopen
 from urlparse import urlparse
 from contextlib import closing
 import time
+import MySQLdb
+
+conn = MySQLdb.connect(host = "localhost",
+                       user = "brain",
+                       passwd = "horsebatteries",
+                       db = "brain")
+
 
 db = web.database(dbn='mysql', user='mysecrets', pw='horsebatteries', 
   db='mysecrets')