The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey March 26, 2018

26 March 2018

Busy week and weekend past. The week brought us our heaviest snow of the season, on the first day of Spring. Here's a shot from my drive home last Wednesday, midday: Much of the weekend went to house cleaning and associated chores - we have a house guest arriving shortly. I also roasted some more of the Guatemala Pico Mayor Gesha from Sweet Maria's. Lovely stuff, and it wouldn't do to run out because I'll be brewing more than usual, perhaps. I also did some more glue-ups on the new jig I built last weekend: We march in spirit with…

Brian Bilbrey March 18, 2018

18 March 2018

Well. Busy week. Work and patching and appointments filled my week. We attended The Glass Menagerie opening night Friday at Annapolis Shakespeare. That show is a joy. All four actors nailed their parts, but special props to Claire Schoonover's portrayal of Amanda Wingfield. She was triumpant! I worked on chores and some infrastructure builds in the woodshop over the weekend. Up this morning at 0630 to finish up the production systems patching. And we just got home from the Broadway on Demand cabaret at the theatre. v.tired. More later or next week, but first... * * * Our condolences to…

Brian Bilbrey March 11, 2018

11 March 2018

The work week was productive. I'm planning a couple of patching and upgrade cycles that will call for a couple of weekend days work, and probably some travel in May. But the planning and prep documentation is coming along nicely. And, after last weekend's excitement and manual labor filled days, I wanted to take it easy this weekend. So I did. Yesterday I dropped by the theater and had a long conversation with Sally Boyett that ended with me joining the Board. I sure hope that I can provide the type of input that she's hoping for... one thing's for…

Brian Bilbrey March 4, 2018

4 March 2018

A fairly calm work-week, until the big winds came. We didn't lose power at the office, nor at home. But plenty of blinking lights and brown-outs, at both locations. 'Round about 1 PM, Marcia called and said there were bits blowing off the house, and ... problems with the fence. There was plenty of coverage at the office, so I came home. The house issue was limited to some segments of the aluminum soffit under the second story eaves in front. The fence issues, however... On the southeast perimeter, some fencing had come loose from one post, and another post…

Brian Bilbrey February 25, 2018

25 February 2018

Okay, all good. Two three day weekends are now done. Eight days ago, I started a house cleaning binge on the Saturday morning, expecting to get the house caught up so that I could do some other projects and have some relax time over the ensuing days. About midway through, I got to the living room, and decided it was time to swap out a couple of the pictures on the wall with more recent acquisitions. One of them needed hanging wire, so I went down to the wood shop to paw through my stacks of stuff and find the…