The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey August 5, 2011

Agog, Shiny

Shiny is actually an attribute of the new machine, henceforth known as Agog. Agog was my state of being when kindness by others turns out to have been expressed in the form of a 13" MacBook Air. Core i7, 4G, 256G flash drive. Fast, light, and gorgeous. It's funny, really, that I should have decided, just last night, that the right choice was to get a new battery for Darla, the MacBook Pro I picked up in January of 2007. Darla runs OS X Lion just fine, if a little bit slow. But slow is relative. I executed a test…

Brian Bilbrey August 4, 2011

Ownage

Apologies - work and schoolwork have owned my days and nights. Project 3 is now in for the database class, and work remains busy. But here's the project that required slots cut into wood: A framed cork board to substitute for someone who wanted to stick cork tiles onto the gorgeous book-matched veneer on that desk you'll see when I can upload pictures again (/tmp is full on the server we're on). * * * Later: I executed an end-run by putting the picture on the static Orb site, then linking to it here.

Brian Bilbrey July 31, 2011

Seven Down, Five To Go

July is wound down, days are getting a bit shorter, and while the heat is with us for another month or so, I can already see the end of the year. Time seems to go a bit faster with each passing year, eh? But summer isn't over yet: the tomatoes, as you saw below, are in full production. I took most of that stack and made a red sauce yesterday: 20# of tomatoes, a couple of onions, a bunch of garlic, half a cup of olive oil, two small cans of tomato paste, five bay leaves, and a bottle of…

Brian Bilbrey July 29, 2011

Mmmmm, Tomatoes!

So of course, I made salsa... Probably building a big pot of red sauce with the balance of those, tomorrow.

Brian Bilbrey July 26, 2011

Mmmmm, steak!

Supper at the Chesapeake Grille & Deli tonight, with friends Linda and George. I had the Sirloin steak dinner, medium rare, and they cooked it perfectly! Good stuff. The others had assorted seafood and it was all good. Recommended. Now it's time for school work, followed by some remote office work sometime after 2200. Ciao!