The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey September 11, 2011

Ten Years

Ten years ago, 2, 997 people lost their lives at the hands of 19 Islamic hijackers wielding four airplanes as weapons against the towers at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and at a field in Pennsylvania. We are heavily invested in two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a result of that attack. Neither of those nations were the prime supporters of the hijackers. While those wars may be justified (or not), and ultimately successful (or not), we have a job left undone ... probably due to pathological political and religious correctness. The "good news", such as it…

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2011

Mostly Central Americans

The coffee I've ordered, that is. Here's the list of coffees ordered from Sweet Maria's this evening: They'll be here in a week and a half, fingers and eyes crossed. I'm down to two pounds left downstairs, so this is cutting it pretty fine. Yikes! I should have ordered the day we got back from Maine, but I was tired from the drive. Oh, well.

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…