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Brian Bilbrey

Good news, bad news

The good news is twofold. First, my penultimate deliverable for the Software Engineering class is in the hopper - two sections (about 11 pages) of an SDMP document. One more week of reading and writing puts that class to bed. Second, it looks like my effort to finally purchase materials and get the cold frame built (see yesterday's post) is going to pay off: we're likely to see frosts Monday and Tuesday nights. With luck what I built protects what I'm growing. Third (yes, third, this is a bonus good thing, for some definition of good), I've got a week-long…

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Brian Bilbrey

Another Spring, Another Garden

The snow peas are coming in fine ... ... although that might be a bit of a misnomer. It was nearly 80 yesterday. Fortunately the humidity didn't match. We could still get a late cold snap, and even snow. But I really want to get more things started. Potatoes should do okay regardless: That looks boring now, but soon, soon. As the potatoes come up, I'll sweep the earth in from the sides and mound over the potatoes, which should increase yield. And there at the bottom left, you can see my snow/frost preventer. In years past, I've started from…

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Brian Bilbrey

Team Project DONE; Now, Lasers!

I've been working like mad on a team project for my CMIS330 class, it's due tonight, and happily, I think it's done! I've got it out for review to the team members right now, and hell or high water I'm turning it in at 2100 EDT. It makes me want to build robots with Laser Eyes (thanks to JoCo) and loose them upon the world. * * * Our condolences to the familes, friends and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Jesse J. Grindey, 30, of Hazel Green, Wis., died March 12, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Spc. Daquane D.

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Brian Bilbrey

Argh III

In my introduction conference entry for my CMIS class, I said I hate school group projects. At work it's fine, people are motivated and interested - the mission gets accomplished. My dislike continues to be fueled by the current group project I'm participating in. I posted up template documents, did my part quickly, completely, and early to provide exemplar material to make it easy for my teammates to follow the template ... and we needed everyone to the the first part done by last night. Of the other three folks, only one had anything done. Me == Sad. I've finished…

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