The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey February 3, 2019

3 February 2019

It's been an interesting week, weather-wise. For instance, it was properly cold for a couple of days, with lows in the single digits and highs in the mid-teens (ºF). And on Friday, when we were due an hour or two of snow flurries midday, Ullr sent us snow starting at 8 AM and lasting all day. It was light snow, but it all stuck, since everything was pre-frozen. I shoveled off the 2.5" when I got home late afternoon: On the entertainment front, we enjoyed a superb opening night production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the…

Brian Bilbrey January 27, 2019

27 January 2019

Because they are, just sayin'... So I'm going to ignore all of that for the moment. Marcia did a bunch of wonderful baking and cooking, so for supper with friends Saturday night we had scratch made: crackers, focaccia (two kinds: rosemary and olive), pasta, and cake. Carb-loading for the gluten gluttons only? Yup. But super-tasty! The house got cleaned, too. Coffee from Kenya got roasted. And I did some intermittent remote work over the weekend, getting stuff done, which is good. Finally, I spent a bit of time playing around in Skyrim. Net result, there: I'm now the Arch Mage…

Brian Bilbrey January 21, 2019

21 January 2019

Not properly cold, not in the ice moon Hoth sense of the word, anyway. But it was 11º Fahrenheit when I walked the dog early this morning, with winds gusting to 40 mph. I think that means a wind chill of minus one billion. As the day went on, it warmed a little bit, and the winds dropped to gentle breezes, which meant I could shed a layer or two for the later walks. It'd have been better if Lexi would simply walk, take care of her business, and be ready to head back in. But her idea of a…

Brian Bilbrey January 13, 2019

13 January 2019

Yup, our first major winter storm arrived yesterday late afternoon. We've so far got over 10" here in my back yard. I shoveled the driveway and sidewalks just after 4 PM, when a mere 6.5 inches had fallen. By the time was done, I went back over the whole thing to quickly remove the next inch of snow that had fallen while I was shoveling. Yay? Oh, yeah. The snow was supposed to be done by now ... but it's still falling. That explains the schools pre-announcing tomorrow's closure. The Feds? Who knows, all of the OPM people who communicate…

Brian Bilbrey January 6, 2019

6 January 2019

Of the new year, anyway. Not much of external interest happened in the last week - work was work, I got some chores done over the weekend, including the first coffee roasting of the new year. We'd been drinking from a couple of different batches of Rise Up coffee for a while, courtesy of a Christmas gift from the St. Germain's. But that's now running low, so it was time to get a pound of Sweet Maria's Ethiopian roasted and resting in anticipation of Wednesday or Thursday brewing. I am finally down to reading the wonderful Fran Wilde's Horizon, the…