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Brian Bilbrey November 6, 2011

Some Fallen Warriors Are Mothers

Really, there's nothing that should make the loss of any one of our young men or women any different from one another. This week DoD reported about Cabrera, Newman, Darrough, Eugenio, Gailey, Butcher, Cullers, and Vincent - all of these people gave their lives for our country. Each loss is deeply felt. But please, why are we sending young mothers into war zones? Nineteen year old PFC Sarina Butcher had a three year old daughter. Yeah, we have to follow our laws, and women fought for equal rights, including the right to die for their country in battle. The law…

Brian Bilbrey November 5, 2011

One Nation Under A Groove

Thanks, Funkadelic, for brightening up my afternoon! * * * Busy week (huge surprise there, eh?) - four days working at the office, including a day of racking new gear and helping to get the electrics run properly for the new gear. Friday was an appointment in the morning, followed by writing and coding for school. I'd been working on the final paper for the Social Gerontology class for a couple of weeks, and yesterday I finished it and submitted it. In the evening, I worked on the Java project that's due on Sunday evening (or, confusingly, Monday, but I'll…

Brian Bilbrey October 30, 2011

Their Sacrifice...

The goal is non-terrorist-friendly countries. Is our path the best way to that goal? Yea or nay, that's a policy question. There's no doubt that our men and women in uniform perform their duty at 110%, every day. Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors:  

Brian Bilbrey October 29, 2011

Real Snow (TM)

Had I said I was going to celebrate All Hallow's Eve by decorating the whole DC Metro area for Christmas, they would have laughed at me. The snow is still here, hours later, and the temps are dropping through freezing, so it'll be here for a short while tomorrow, too. Wow, just wow! And our overall precipitation is around an inch and a quarter for the last 18 hours. We're 3/4 of an inch away from 20 inches of rain in our back yard since Irene made landfall here in late August.

Brian Bilbrey October 29, 2011

Snow? SRSLY?

First snow of Winter 2011-2012 - it ain't much, and it ain't sticking to anything, but I'm still impressed with the can-do attitude expressed by this weather system. We started off with rain in the middle of the night, and were just shy of an inch of rain today when it flipped over to the snow delivery system about an hour ago. Right now the occasional flake is still falling, and it's hovering around 35-36°F (~1.5°C)... I guess it's a good thing I winterized the watering systems yesterday. We might get our first frost tonight, eh? * * * I…