The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey October 16, 2011

The Duty

A busy weekend - the second paper for the Social Gerontology class is submitted. We got down to the District yesterday, and saw the new Degas exhibition at the Phillips Collection. A very nice day, and great weather for wandering about. Marcia's knee wasn't too happy about that after the fact, more's the pity. Today, mostly shopping and chores and whatnot. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Capt. Joshua S. Lawrence, 29, of Nashville, Tennessee, died Oct. 8, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit…

Brian Bilbrey October 13, 2011

School blues...

So, I took Monday off entirely. Well, almost entirely. A patch of ceiling needed primer, but other than that, I did nothing but read, relax, watch Mythbusters, and take care of the dog. That's unusual for me - usually I take time off and break myself with chores and whatnot. So, that was different. Then, Monday night, Marcia returned from a four-day Michigan trip, where she had a good time. However, we have a busy weekend planned, so I needed to knock out all of the school work, leaving precisely nothing to do later in the week. The last two…

Brian Bilbrey October 9, 2011

Untitled #1

Mostly chores and a bit of school work defined this weekend. I turned over the garden this weekend, and mowed the lawns. With a warm-ish week, the lawns both grew quite a bit. Washed the car, cleaned and organized in the house today. Tired and a bit sore, and debating whether to clean out the front beds, or wait for the first frost. I'm leaning towards the latter right now. * * * Our condolence to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Pvt. Danny Chen, 19, of New York, died Oct. 3 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Lance…

Brian Bilbrey October 5, 2011

RIP Steve

Steve Jobs was an insanely great dude. He pushed his people and his company to innovate and create in ways that would not have been possible without him. Rest in Peace.

Brian Bilbrey October 4, 2011

Is Not and Is ... Insanely Great

Some of the folks I know are really disappointed that today's announcement was only for an iPhone 4S + some new iPods and release dates for those and for iOS 5. I pointed out that if all the features and guts of the new phone were in a angular new skin (like some of the "leaked" photos showed) with a bit more screen resolution and it were called an iPhone 5, they'd be drooling. There was general acknowledgement of this, yet and still, "it's just an iPhone 4S, argh!" There's no pleasing some people. Of course, it doesn't please me…