Brian Bilbrey ⁽⁷⁵⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2012

Garden and War

Yesterday, I mowed the yards, and little else, since rain was inbound. We got another 2/10", which is all to the good - perhaps a total of 1.5" over the last week. That'd be a wonderful regular event. Today, I planted all the seedlings in the garden. It doesn't look like much right now - 28 or so tiny tomato seedlings spread out through two beds, zucchini and butternut squash, cucumbers, and half-inch tall jalapeño plants. None of the cerrano peppers germinated. I've got spares of some of the tomatoes bedded for now where the cold frame was, in case…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2012

Eventful

The week, that is. Eventful. First, I'm past halfway now, and on the long slide down into the twilight time. Yep, I turned 51 on Tuesday. It was a fun day: I worked my normal 9 hours, did some light VMware reading in the evening, and retired at my normal time of the evening. Do I know how to live it up, or what? Regarding the light VMware reading, I've been boning up in preparation for a VCP vSphere 5 certification exam, which I took this afternoon. Event the second - I did not pass that exam. Sigh, I suck.

Brian Bilbrey April 22, 2012

So Much For Relaxing...

I was going to take a weekend to relax. Really I was. But I'm on call, see. So my Saturday started with a page at 0608 - a dead system. I was at the office by 0715, and fixed that, then worked on a couple of other tasks before heading back home. So ... I washed the car, cut the lawns, finished the mulching, and cleaned up the side yard. That put paid to Saturday. Today, Darlion (nee´ Harmony), the 2007 MacBook Pro was laid to rest. It had shut itself off several times in the last couple of weeks.

Brian Bilbrey April 15, 2012

Apologies

Today, I was at work by 0555. We finished up the necessary work, I dropped by the nursery to pick up a couple more bags of mulch, and I was home by noon. So that's a good thing. A bad thing is that I managed to not push the publish button on last Sunday's second post: My apologies, as I really don't like shirking on my acknowledgement of the sacrifices made on our behalf by the men and women of our Armed Forces. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Spc. James…

Brian Bilbrey April 14, 2012

Third day and done

I decided not to add a new category: Pain. It belongs here, but it'd (hopefully) be so bloody rare as to be much like a broken pencil. You saw one before-ish (more middle-ish, really) picture from the front yard, day before yesterday. Here's one more deeply before picture: the right-hand bed off the front porch: You might need to click on the image to get the full extent of the pain this bed caused me yesterday. Bracketing the bed are a pair of golden euonymous bushes (pre-trimming. In the center is our wonderful batch of tiger lilies. They're being owned,…