The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2011

Weather Plus

The plus part is that the sun came out today. For a while. But there are still clouds. According to the gauge, we've had just over 12 inches of rain in our back yard in the last 15 days. Yowza! * * * Things I think when driving: Those are the polite things, unlike what I was thinking about the driver of the truck sporting yellow livery on the topic of bobcat rentals ... that truck's driver was a maniac who cut people off, and exited a parking lot by the entrance-only path in order to get ahead of two…

Brian Bilbrey September 6, 2011

"Day off"

Wherein I: That last item may deserve a bit more explanation. A while back, I picked up a 160 GB SSD to muck around with. Since I was in a bit of a limbo with the Mac at the time, I chose to drop the SSD into the big workstation and load Windows 7 onto it. Because that box is a VM host (VirtualBox) and gaming machine, I put a 1TB drive in as 'S:' (for "Storage") - that's where all the multi-gig games are installed. It's a fast-booting windows box, and that's no bad thing, since it's one of…

Brian Bilbrey September 5, 2011

Gone Fishin'

And there's only one way that happens... we went fishin' We drove up to Maine last Thursday, and stayed near to Marcia's sister up there. The rest of her siblings and their spousal units were present, too. A good time was had, great food was consumed, and the Three Consecutive Days Fishing Achievement was unlocked. Today we left shortly after 5AM, and picked up Lexi from the kennel at about 4 in the afternoon, then headed home from there. V.tired, but a fun long weekend. Tomorrow, we unwind, and catch up on a couple of chores before returning to work…

Brian Bilbrey September 4, 2011

Catching up

First, Happy Birthday to Pete! I've tried to call a couple of times, but no joy. So here's where it is, when you have time! * * * Next, the duty. Our condolences to the families and units of these fallen warriors: Spc. Douglas J. Green, 23, of Sterling, Virginia, died Aug. 28 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Pfc. Alberto L. Obod Jr., 26, of Orlando, Florida, died Aug. 28 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered during a vehicle roll-over. Sgt. Devin J.

Brian Bilbrey August 31, 2011

Sitting here, looking up

I'm sitting here at sub-desk one, working on the Air and looking up at the wall (not precisely in that order, perhaps). I see two crooked pictures on the wall ... and now I know the answer to the question, "Why earthquakes?" Of course, it's to piss off all the people with OCD. * * * JoCo released his new album an hour ago. I'd link to it, but he announced the event on Twatter, and killed his own secure server with the crush of traffic. HO HO, JoCo! To help with the joyeous crash and burn, I did retwat…