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Brian Bilbrey May 27, 2019

May 27, 2019

While I didn't lose any close family members in wars ongoing, recent, or past, many of my family and friends have served our Country and Constitution with honor, and are now beyond the veil. And so, so many have paid for their service with their lives. Today is a day to honor those women and men, to honor the sacrifices that our warriors make on our behalf. This they are due, and deserve, regardless of the politics of the day. OTOH, some of us (me, for example) took care of a lot of chores over the weekend, from mowing and…

Brian Bilbrey May 20, 2019

20 May 2019

There are pictures, but I haven't downloaded them yet. The weekend was full of yardwork. Saturday was a full front/back mowing and some other front yard tasks. Sunday both Marcia and I worked on fully preparing two of the raised beds for pepper, tomato, and zucchini plants. This year, we're lining the beds with weed block fabric to attempt to make the fight a bit fairer to us. In and around the yardwork, we had a game night over at Linda and Mike's place, where much laughter accompanied a session of Cards Against Humanity. Sunday night was 80's music Cabaret…

Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2019

13 May 2019

Friday the Thirteenth falls on a Monday this month. Triskaidekaphobia is a terrible thing, fortunately something I don't suffer from. So, Monday after a busy, busy weekend. Mowing the back yard for the first time since August took up much of Saturday, and all of my energy. We still made it out to Opening Night for Oliver! at Annapolis Shakespeare Company on Saturday night. What a wonderful fun show. The actors had fun, a group that we knew from prior shows along with many newcomers (mostly kids, for some reason...? Grin!). Much fun, Highly Recommended! Sunday was rained out, so…

Brian Bilbrey May 5, 2019

5 May 2019

We had all of the above grade windows in our house replaced on Friday. It's been a really busy week. I came home Thursday after a half work day, and spent the balance of my waking hours preparing the house for window replacement to start early Friday morning. All the window coverings (but for the master suite, which I held up until 7 AM Friday) were remove, cataloged and set aside (there's a story there, hang on...) Everything not nailed down was mostly moved at least three feet away from all the window openings, to facilitate the work. A fragile…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2019

29 April 2019

Saturday was a full, wonderful day at BsidesCharm 2019. I saw a number of interesting talks on security topics that taught me a lot. Sunday I planned to attend a second full day there, but the crashing near-migrane I woke with put paid to that plan. I just relaxed, and that's made today ever so much better. The thing I'm looking most forward to soon is Good Omens. If you aren't, you should be. The book is wonderful, too, and read it first if you can. My preparatory work for this is to watch some Neil Gaiman interviews. Note -…