The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey November 25, 2012

Leftovers

Our turkey day was full of thanks and food and more food. Just the two of us, and a 17 pound bird ... shedloads of leftovers, needless to say. Marcia's job-hunt continues, and I'm back to work tomorrow after a week off. It's been very weird, frankly. I did a lot of schoolwork - both for the week in progress, and groundwork for the final website project. I played some Half Life 2, and watched a bit of Top Gear UK. And the week is gone, just like that. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units…

Brian Bilbrey November 22, 2012

Moving right along

First, for US visitors, Happy Thanksgiving. A weird holiday, to be sure, but it's always good to be thankful for life, family, friends, and first world problems. * * * I'm posting from Linux again, for the first time in a long while. I'd been trying a variety of solutions for storage here, answers that didn't involve running a full-size system 24x7. I couldn't do it. You see, it isn't good enough to just back stuff up here at home. I'm not going to backup home data on a cloud somewhere on the Internet - our friendly government doesn't appear…

Brian Bilbrey November 18, 2012

Marcia's back (again) & Linux reloaded

Today, I relaxed a bit. Shopping in the morning, a bit of Top Gear UK during the day, and I picked Marcia up at BWI around 1500 EST. Happy dog is happy, and so am I. The holiday bird is in the fridge, I've got a tray of mac-n-cheese ready, and ... we'll see how the table ends up. Tonight, I blew out the FreeNAS installation, and installed Scientific Linux 6.3 x64 on the box still known as Serenity. I had a lot of trouble getting things working right, and there are issues with offsite backups that are much more…

Brian Bilbrey November 16, 2012

Should Be True

A great start to ten days before I go back to the office: I was up at 0500, and driving Marcia to the airport. She's off to Michigan for a baby shower. I declined to attend, however. I'm going to attempt NOT to rise at that hour again for a week or so! Now, here's a reminder that Marcia is job hunting, and would appreciate legit leads for a new gig. * * * New Feature: Should-Be-True Facts. As I was dropping off to sleep last night, I had one of my weird little non sequitur thoughts, and I managed…

Brian Bilbrey November 15, 2012

Xerox restructures

USA Today reported yesterday that Xerox will lay off 2,500 employees. So it was nothing personal when one of those RIF'd yesterday was Marcia. She talks about that on her own site... Just wanted to let y'all know. She's already got feelers out, but if you have any input for her, be sure to get in touch. * * * In other news, I'm on vacation. I'm going to burn a small fraction of my available vacation hours and return to work on Monday the 26th. I'll take another week in mid-December, just for fun. Well, to finish up school,…