The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey February 12, 2012

One

One ... One free minute would be nice. Yesterday, I sat for my take-home midterm in Geology. It took me 5 hours. I pity the folks who read slowly and are tortured when it comes to writing. After that, I gave several hours to working on the front matter for an SRS (System Requirements Specification) document due this weekend for my Software Engineering class. I had one bum system last night that needed (remote) rebooting and hand holding for about an hour. There were several Linux systems updates last night and this morning, followed by reboot and testing. I did…

Brian Bilbrey February 5, 2012

Gladiators: second door, down the hall, third office, please.

Yeah, apparently there's going to be a game of feet-baal or something like that. The pregame show was on the tube when we awoke this morning apparently, and may have been on before we retired last night, for all I know. I'm all caught up on schoolwork for the moment. I have some reading to do for Geology, and an assignment and midterm for that class this week as well. My Principles of Software Engineering class starts tomorrow. I've done the first week's reading for that, but there's an assignment there, too. This new eight-week pressure cooker format is going…

Brian Bilbrey January 29, 2012

What Happened to January?

Yeah, I know what happened. Surgery, school, work, life. Funny thing, that. I have lots of stuff I'd like to work on, and comment on, but I have no time, so I don't, and I don't. Marcia's doing really well, though. Tonight is the last of the rat poison, and tomorrow is the last day for the by-now-truly-hated compression hose. I'm not personally a huge fan either, because I assist in the changing thereof, and wash each pair once a day, to keep them in rotation. But I'm still glad I haven't had to wear them. Also, with the Coumadin…

Brian Bilbrey January 23, 2012

My Bad...

Yeah, I know it's Monday. The weekend got away from me, and evenings aren't as free as they once were, or will be again. Marcia continues to make great strides (relatively speaking). * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin B. Wise, 34, of Little Rock, Arkansas, died Jan. 15 in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, of injuries sustained on Jan. 9 in Balkh province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with small-arms fire. Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman, 22, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, died Jan. 15 conducting combat operations in Helmand…

Brian Bilbrey January 21, 2012

Catch-up Time...

Weirdly, the other night (Wednesday?) both of the touch lamps we use as bedside light broke and would no longer light. The proximal event was a light-bulb blowout on Marcia's side (one of three small bulbs). I've observed in the past that the touch lamp circuitry, while incredibly convenient, seems to be terribly fragile (at least in consumer-grade gear) to spikes and dips. So yesterday evening I trundled down to Lowes and picked up a couple of three-way manually switched lamps and a pair of three-way CFL bulbs. Bloody profit-taking on the LED "bulbs" keeps those prices too high. *…