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Brian Bilbrey

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…

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Brian Bilbrey

11 February 2018

Howdy. I had a decent work week, and a pretty full weekend. I'm not sure where yesterday went, entirely, though it was a lovely Saturday evening out to supper with my co-workers at a nearby brew pub. Good food and good times. Today was chock-a-block: shopping, then for work: tickets, email, and some production system patching, reboots, and testing. Then I installed a replacement sump pump, since the old one wasn't working so well anymore (short cycling). Then lunch, a spot of recorded TV, then exercise, an early supper, a shower, and off to the show. Tonight in the ASC…

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Brian Bilbrey

4 February 2018

There's a football game going on now, just after a halftime show of some sort. If history is any guide, then losing badly is where the Pats want to be right now. That said, ahead by a considerable margin is where the Eagles want to be, too. So ... win/win? I had a productive work week that lasted all seven days. Well, not seven full days, just five of those. But remote work to do things outside of business hours both yesterday and today, both days successful. Huzzah! On the off-hours, I've been spending more time with Python. It's a…

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Brian Bilbrey

28 Jan 2018

Good evening. Bob Thompson is still much on my mind. I'm going to miss him. * * * Work-wise, it was a productive week. But the weekend, ah, it was good: Friday evening, we attended opening night for the Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit. Spiritedly directed by ASC Founder and Artistic Director Sally Boyett, thc cast romped through this classic drawing room comedy like they'd been working together for ages, and were still having marvelous fun while doing it. Kurt Elftmann, whom we last saw with ASC as Richard III, plays the novelist Charles Condomine magnificently.

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