The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey December 12, 2012

And Done!

I turned in the final final, on the 33.3 year path from entering university in the Fall of 1979 to the end of this year. For the last five years, I've been taking courses at UMUC, filling in holes in my education, and taking lots of new, shiny, politically correct classes. I've had some real trolls for instructors, and some gems. This last one was much more in the latter category, but I have to note the 5-year winner of the category Best Instructor I've Had At UMUC: Charles Neimeyer, PhD. I have no idea how the Marine Corps Chief…

Brian Bilbrey December 9, 2012

Last Week

More like: The Last Week. I finished up all of this week's work yesterday, and did a big hunk of the final week's worth of schoolwork today. So close I can taste it, this school thing, it will be done. I also did a bit of cleaning here and there, and tidied up the woodshop. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Lance Cpl. Anthony J. Denier, 26, of Mechanicville, New York, died Dec. 2, while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Sgt. 1st Class. Darren M. Linde, 41, of Sidney,…

Brian Bilbrey December 2, 2012

Work, Schoolwork, and Statistics...

If you are playing along at home, you might suspect that "Damned" could fit in for "School" in today's word-swap cipher match. The upside for me is that I'm developing a project website that I'm likely to put into play early next year. But not to discuss until it's nearly ready. I don't know whether I'll take it down the customized blog path, or go back to my beloved bespoke hand-crafted HTML approach that served me so well over the years. Yesterday I went shopping, because I had about 5.5 hours of work to do today, helping launch a new…

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…