The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey January 12, 2012

Happy Dancing All Around...

Okay, not Marcia - she's not going to be dancing for a bit, but she's got a whole new left knee joint now. Surgery was Monday at 0730 at AAMC, done by Dr. Louis Ruland. He's a great orthopedist, and Marcia can probably say that with more assurance than I can. He kept her on her feet for nearly 10 years, and when the joint damage was too bad for any further repairs, he's given her a whole new knee to work with. By Monday evening, they had her on her feet for a quick evaluation, believe it or not! The…

Brian Bilbrey January 11, 2012

It's A Dog's Life, Part 42

I wandered into the bedroom to see if the dog was ready for her last walk of the day ... This was an unscripted pose, what amused me was that she didn't bother moving while I strolled back to my office to grab the camera. Clearly the little dog does her best to own a California King.

Brian Bilbrey January 8, 2012

The Bionic Woman

Not the 70's TV show starring Lindsay Wagner, but perhaps, one day, Marcia. She takes one step that direction this week, getting a knee replacement done. We've been doing a bit of prep for that, which has kept me pretty busy outside of work, so sorry. Not much else to report until I report how the surgery went, later this coming week. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Petty Officer 1st Class Chad R. Regelin, 24, of Cottonwood, Calif., died Jan. 2 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Senior…

Brian Bilbrey January 1, 2012

Welcome to 2012.

Things that might happen this year: Two of those are, I think, likely. Observe that I make no REALLY absurd claims about food or exercise. That'd just be crazytalk. I do note that the loonier portions of Iraq are claiming a victory over the US because we finally withdrew the last of our combat troops from that cesspit of a made-up country. We had one primary goal - dispose of Saddam. Done. We had a secondary goal, which is to leave that country in a fairly stable sovereign condition. Silly secondary goal: expensive in blood and treasure, and pointless since…

Brian Bilbrey December 29, 2011

To Be Continued

And here I am. So, Node.js. First, the lawyer crap: Node.js is a trademark of Joyent. I guess I have to say that, but seriously? Probably, just to protect the project from ne'er-do-wells out here on teh 'tubes. It's a sanely licensed project that provides good attribution to the bundled dependencies. I expect nothing less than good open source citizenship from the smart folks at Joyent. Anyway, Node.js is a hunk of code and libraries that runs on the server-side of the HTML/XHTML transactional pipeline, and allows mind-bendingly simple code to do neat things. Is it secure? I dunno. Is…