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Brian Bilbrey

33 Days

Last night, we finished our celebration of Marcia's birthday (which was back on the 15th) with a viewing of the latest Bond flick: Skyfall. Good movie, excellent action, good pacing, and while it's a tad predictable, it almost has to be with a franchise as venerable as Bond. The rest of the weekend was pretty full, too: woodworking, company party, shopping, washing of cars ... a long list. * * * 33 days - that's our interval since the prior casualty announcement from DoD. Wow! Still, today we got word that Staff Sgt. Jonathan D. Davis, 34, of Kayenta, Arizona,…

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Brian Bilbrey

Twitter-spotting #43

“@TonikJDK: Fair warning. If I see someone wearing Google Glass I will run up and yell 'Safe Search off, horse porn!!'” 'nuff said. * * * “@tenderlove: I wish name tags were a hip thing. It would prevent many awkward situations.” There are so many ways to interpret this. My first reading was that he wants nametags on peoples hips, instead of the standard left-breast position. After all, that would prevent the awkward excuse, "No, really, I was just trying to read your nametag, ma'am!" Then I realized that he probably meant hip, as in cool. But really ... hip…

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Brian Bilbrey

George Lincoln's Birthday

Or something like that. I neglected to check in last night - I actually stayed off the computer all day yesterday. I checked email on the phone a couple of times, for reasons about to become apparent, but that was all. Woodshop work, and Top Gear UK rounded out my Sunday. Saturday was a big system upgrade project. We'd been preparing for the event for the better part of a year: endless cycles of build, test, and document. Towards the end I was losing sleep thinking about it each night. Finally the day came, and all of the prep work…

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Brian Bilbrey

Clear and Cold

Thankfully, we didn't take the winter storm hit that nailed the North East - one of the "advantages"of being mid-Atlantic, I guess. It was quite windy, especially over Friday night into Saturday morning, that much did swing south, but other than a bit of rain on Friday, there was no precipitation for us. All it takes is half an inch of snow to grind this place nearly to a halt. I will take note that my 328i really does do well in the snow and ice. Earlier in the week, I was joking that I'd have a chance to see…

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