The journey continues...

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…

Brian Bilbrey August 30, 2011

A is for Appropriate

I would have said awesome, but the 'A' that I got for each class this summer was more tiring than awesome. Survival of challenging course work is harder at this age, and with a full work load besides. On the flip side, I'm certainly better organized, more motivated, and purposely successful than I ever was as a student previously. On the gripping hand, since I started at this last death march to finish a BS, I've accumulated 16 straight 'A's. Only eight more to completion (unless I calculate the courses wrong, and end up having to take one or two…