The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2012

Another Sunday

My day started in New Jersey. Seriously. I spent Thursday evening through this morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey attending PICC'12. What a great conference. Sponsored by LOPSA, and hosted by the New Jersey chapter of LOPSA, it was two superb days of new friends, meeting in meatspace folks I only knew electronically, good food, and some awesome technical training classes. My major focus this time around was on configuration management, security, and IPv6. I can't recommend this conference highly enough. Only a three hour drive for me, it's also right close to the train and near to Newark airport.

Brian Bilbrey May 6, 2012

Best Two Out of Three

One more day of weekend to go - I'm taking Monday off work, for a variety of reasons, some of which will be explained later. But Saturday and Sunday I was in the yard, planting: Both in front and in back. That process is pretty much done. I didn't get the watering system fettled for the season yet, and that was my original goal ... but the rest of the plants was an important part, too. So, tomorrow for that, I think. Pictures tomorrow, too. I also have to replace the kitchen sink faucet, since it gave up the ghost…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2012

Garden and War

Yesterday, I mowed the yards, and little else, since rain was inbound. We got another 2/10", which is all to the good - perhaps a total of 1.5" over the last week. That'd be a wonderful regular event. Today, I planted all the seedlings in the garden. It doesn't look like much right now - 28 or so tiny tomato seedlings spread out through two beds, zucchini and butternut squash, cucumbers, and half-inch tall jalapeño plants. None of the cerrano peppers germinated. I've got spares of some of the tomatoes bedded for now where the cold frame was, in case…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2012

Eventful

The week, that is. Eventful. First, I'm past halfway now, and on the long slide down into the twilight time. Yep, I turned 51 on Tuesday. It was a fun day: I worked my normal 9 hours, did some light VMware reading in the evening, and retired at my normal time of the evening. Do I know how to live it up, or what? Regarding the light VMware reading, I've been boning up in preparation for a VCP vSphere 5 certification exam, which I took this afternoon. Event the second - I did not pass that exam. Sigh, I suck.

Brian Bilbrey April 22, 2012

So Much For Relaxing...

I was going to take a weekend to relax. Really I was. But I'm on call, see. So my Saturday started with a page at 0608 - a dead system. I was at the office by 0715, and fixed that, then worked on a couple of other tasks before heading back home. So ... I washed the car, cut the lawns, finished the mulching, and cleaned up the side yard. That put paid to Saturday. Today, Darlion (nee´ Harmony), the 2007 MacBook Pro was laid to rest. It had shut itself off several times in the last couple of weeks.