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Brian Bilbrey December 30, 2018

30 December 2018

We enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home, mostly binge-watching The Great British Baking Show. In the evening, we watched the Springsteen Broadway special. The dog got a couple of new toys, as did I. Marcia was surprised to get a couple of things, too, since we'd already got her "Christmas presents" a couple of months ago. With Christmas gone and New Year's Eve tomorrow, another year's gone by, and each goes faster than the one preceding. But here at Hovel Bilbrey, we're continuing to do okay. The big changes of the year involved first ramping up our involvement with the…

Brian Bilbrey December 25, 2018

25 December 2018

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, with or without family, with or without larger significance, please let it give you and yours both joy and peace. I had a lovely few days off work. We spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time binge-watching The Great British Baking Show, and to join us in our turkey dinner today, we were joined by a Mister Bruce Springsteen, shown in the production filmed over a couple of nights of his Broadway run. What a lovely show. We leapt out of bed this morning at the crack of 8:41, and once the dog…

Brian Bilbrey December 17, 2018

17 December 2018

Almost nothing to report, other than the continuing deluge that is our weather this year. Over the weekend, we got ANOTHER 2.6" of rain, as measured in my back yard. And more rain due on Thursday and Friday. Lovely. We're up around 65-66" on the year, smack between the record-breaking DC and Baltimore totals. Marcia's been baking some wonderful things, and we also attended a fun Broadway Holiday production at Annapolis Shakespeare on Saturday evening. That was a total hoot, and there are two more of those to go, running in rep with their stellar production of A Christmas Carol.

Brian Bilbrey December 9, 2018

9 December 2018

Me, I had a busy week and a busy weekend. Our condolences to the family and friends of Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Export, Pennsylvania, who died on Dec. 2, 2018, in Landstuhl, Germany, as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device on Nov. 27, 2018, in Andar District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Brian Bilbrey December 2, 2018

2 December 2018

This was a productive week, but nothing especially outstanding. We're mostly recovered from Thanksgiving, and getting ready to decorate for the Christmas period. We watched series four of Fake or Fortune, a show that works to establish attribution and provenance of artwork, presented by Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. Great fun, for those who love Brits, European art, and art controversy. I've got a lot of paperwork to do, wrapping up some stuff in advance of year end, both personal and work related, so that's coming up this next week. Nothing else super exciting on the calendar yet. Our condolences…