The journey continues...

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.

Brian Bilbrey April 15, 2012

Apologies

Today, I was at work by 0555. We finished up the necessary work, I dropped by the nursery to pick up a couple more bags of mulch, and I was home by noon. So that's a good thing. A bad thing is that I managed to not push the publish button on last Sunday's second post: My apologies, as I really don't like shirking on my acknowledgement of the sacrifices made on our behalf by the men and women of our Armed Forces. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Spc. James…

Brian Bilbrey April 14, 2012

Third day and done

I decided not to add a new category: Pain. It belongs here, but it'd (hopefully) be so bloody rare as to be much like a broken pencil. You saw one before-ish (more middle-ish, really) picture from the front yard, day before yesterday. Here's one more deeply before picture: the right-hand bed off the front porch: You might need to click on the image to get the full extent of the pain this bed caused me yesterday. Bracketing the bed are a pair of golden euonymous bushes (pre-trimming. In the center is our wonderful batch of tiger lilies. They're being owned,…

Brian Bilbrey April 13, 2012

Spring: Sprung

For the second morning in a row, early temperatures in the mid-30's Fahrenheit put a bit of a damper on morning yard work. I've taken a couple of days off to get the front yard in order. I'm peeling out all the old mulch, weeding everything, edging around the trees, and re-seating border bricks around the beds. What I didn't count on yesterday was finding that a couple of the beds needed a deep turning. When I uncovered the bed you see above, the soil seemed a bit lifeless and compacted, in keeping with the tepid growth of the few…