The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey September 30, 2018

30 September 2018

This has been a busy, busy weekend. Two words: Capclave, Theatre. First up: Capclave. This is a lovely small literary SF/F/H/etc. conference run and sponsored by the WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association). They're a wonderful, motivated, well-organized group who've been putting on Capclave annually for a long time - Hat's off to the team and organizers! The Guests of Honor (usually GoH) this year were Alyssa Wong and Nancy Kress. I was, frankly, embarrassed to know not very much about the work of either, for very different reasons. Alyssa writes superb, award-winning short stories, most of which may be considered…

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2018

23 September 2018

More rain. Seriously. And we live close enough to DC that the rain-hole that exists there shadows us a bit - we got just a bit over half of the 22 inches that BWI got in the same time span, and that's less than 30 minutes drive. We're at 15 inches in the last two months. That's four month's worth of annualized rainfall. And I'm tired of it. Oh, yeah... the app on the phone says each one of the next 24 hours has rain due, better than 50% chance. I count Fall as officially started on the first night…

Brian Bilbrey September 17, 2018

17 September 2018

It was a busy week. As I tell Marcia every evening ... I worked on computers. It was an even busier weekend. I mowed. And mowed. And mowed. The front yard still needed a double cut, just to catch up from the two weekends away while we were in Maine. The back yard ... Shudder. Well, it's much, much flatter now, but the yard looks like it's been shaved by a great grandfather with the shakes! Between rain and travel, I'd not mowed for six weeks. Yikes! Other accomplishments over the weekend included working on the donor plaques on the…

Brian Bilbrey September 10, 2018

10 September 2018

Lexi stays in bed I think this dog either... Doesn't want to get out of bed. Is hoping that being well hidden will keep her from surgery tomorrow. All of the above.

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2018

9 September 2018

We've been home from Maine for about 30 hours. It's been raining for approximately 36 of those hours. And I'm having fun with the french drains leading to the sump pump. I think one is mostly blocked ... AND I've got some grading issues along that side of the house. Sigh. Today I back-filled and improved some of the grading. I also extended a couple of gutter drains a lot further away from the house. Hope it helps while I figure out what the next move is. After all, there's rain in the forecast here for each of the next…