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Brian Bilbrey December 8, 2019

8 December 2019

The holiday season is well upon us. No post last weekend because of food coma, caused primarily by the small, 14 pound bird we roasted for the two of us ... Lexi got only little bits. We just finished eating off of that bird today, with the last two servings of soup. We had a few days of straight leftovers, a pot of soup, and an abundance of turkey tetrazzini (extra turkey, no 'shrooms or almonds). We *did* manage to get the tree up and decorated, and topped in a fitting Doctor Who style: Yup, who doesn't love a Weeping…

Brian Bilbrey November 24, 2019

24 November 2019

After shopping and cleaning house today, we had wonderful home-made pizza AND watched Chicken Run. Now, instead of being able to concentrate on the world-shaking revelations that were to appear in this space, all I can do is type sentences that run on and on without any appearance of termination in sight, if indeed such sentences as typed could be said to have visual acuity of any sort at all. Nearly every damn political story I read. Disturbing. Politest word I can think of in the circumstances. I've got nothing else to say on the subject at this time. Warren.

Brian Bilbrey November 17, 2019

17 November 2019

As we wind our way through open enrollment season and clarifying what things are still eligible for reimbursement, I'm have such fun with sorting through the paperwork and ensuring that we're getting back all the pennies on the dollar that we have coming. It's one of those things I should do with more regularity, but since interest rates suck so hard, it really doesn't make sense to do the dance too often. Anyway, I'm almost done, having figured out we should spend a bit more on vision care in the next two weeks, to maximize our return. In advance of…

Brian Bilbrey November 11, 2019

11 November 2019

The women and men who put themselves in harm's way on our behalf get precious little of the respect and care that we should give them each day. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Some things change slowly, some so fast one hardly notices the thing itself as the blur as it goes by. A person I work with is moving on, after a lunatic number of years (by today's standards), and I'm going to miss them a lot. No blur here, but a lot of individual moments that together are a big part of the most…

Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2019

3 November 2019

I was four paragraphs into the first pass on this post when I managed to hit a stupid combination of keys on the Apple keyboard and moved backwards three links. Whoops, I thought, and went looking for the auto-saved draft. Um, not there? Sigh. Okay, take two - I wonder how much this iteration is going to vary from the last? Fall is finally, properly, here. Six weeks in, and we finally got two consecutive nights below freezing. We're due for another frost tonight before it warms up just a shade. Also, for the first time, the snow icon made…