The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 25, 2012

The Living Room Reboot

Just to be clear, here at the beginning, Carolina Chair rocks! As an anniversary present to each other, Marcia and I purchased a few weeks ago a new Crawford sectional from Carolina Chair, after I'd done considerable online research about Made in the USA furniture, and reliable vendors, etc. Marcia worked by phone and email and mailed fabric samples with Cathy Fry and the rest of the team down there to get the right design, etc. Carolina Chair got the furniture built and shipped before we even expected it to be fit into the manufacturing schedule! Then, we got the…

Brian Bilbrey May 24, 2012

What? Wait.

Preparing the living room for a furniture delivery tomorrow means emptying the whole thing out, back to the walls. New rug and pad, etc. But while I'm moving stuff and cleaning stuff, I hear barking, and go to look: Now, I have some work (remote to the office) work to do. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey May 21, 2012

AND a dollar Short

Yep, I'm a day late with this. The weekend got away from me, but I did get a lot done. Not a lot in the garden, but the garden's doing fine on it's own right now: As you can almost tell even in the small format, the peas are going wild, as are the potatoes. Everything else is just trying not to get left in the dust. But it's early days for this growing season. The old lawn mower went the way of Fat Albert's car - spitting fuel sideways and back while making a lot of noise. It wasn't…

Brian Bilbrey May 15, 2012

Garden Progress

Moving right along, I managed to take a picture this evening as the clouds started rolling back in. Here's the state of the garden today: The potatoes are coming in nicely, as are all the other plants. The snow peas ... they're in production. I'm pulling a meal's worth out every two days, and they're barely started yet. * * * School is started too, and for grins, the first project in CMIS 485, the capstone course for databases, involves PHP and an Access database. Yeah, Access. Whatever. I've mostly completed the design of the required tables based upon the…

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.