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Brian Bilbrey July 17, 2016

17 July 2016

A long week, and not much in the way of exercise, either. I only got one proper day of exercise in, on Tuesday. The rest of the days were too busy, too hot, or both. But there was some good news: Yup, first salsa! Huzzah! Still no jalapeños, so here's the ingredients: That made a mighty fine salsa! * * * Of note, I went to a CALUG meeting on Wednesday, where Berend Tober spoke on his PostgreSQL-based trading game, Fairwinds. Interesting stuff, because I know less about PostgreSQL than several of the other database systems extant. Now I know…

Brian Bilbrey July 10, 2016

10 July 2016

Let's work the week backwards, just for fun. Today was all about the mowing. The weather was not as hot as most of the week, so I had that going for me. But it was still a miserable sweatball of a day. But the lawns have been sheared, and I did some weeding as well. Bell peppers out of the garden today, a few tomatoes, and a couple of cucumbers. Here's how the garden looks as of today: * * * Last night, we went up to Annapolis to see ASC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented outdoors in…

Brian Bilbrey July 3, 2016

3 July 2016

Nearly happy Fourth of July, USAn's! * * * In the garden this week, I pulled out some zucchini and broccoli on Tuesday. Yesterday, I hauled out half-a-dozen large zucchini, and weeded out the pepper bed. During that latter exercise, I made a horrifying discovery: I managed to plant a box full of pepper plants, and not a single Jalapeño among them. (I rectified that today.) Also today, I harvested another couple of zucchini before they got gargantuan, and ditto for a pair of cucumbers. And joy: The first tomato of the season. Being a reasonably nice guy, I gave…

Brian Bilbrey June 26, 2016

26 June 2016

A week off, and away ... in Maine, visiting with Marcia's sister. We brought Lexi with us, and actually took her out on the boat on Sunday. She and I were out on the front deck of the pontoon boat (aka "party barge") when she decided something in the water looked interesting and leapt into the water, while the boat was underway. Good thing I had her leash on - she would have been canine frappé before Nancy cut the prop power, otherwise. I leaned forward to find the little dog swimming forward for all she was worth, trying to…

Brian Bilbrey June 16, 2016

16 June 2016

Friday last, while at the office, I patched and rebooted the server this site and others runs on. That's not totally uncommon: unlike most of the servers I manage for work purposes, I had no remote console access to my server. And since $FIRM kindly gives me power and pipe for this place, that's just fine. Sadly, upon reboot, I waited ... and waited, and finally went into the data center and connected the crash cart to the system. Um, kernel panics and NMI (non-maskable interrupts) all over the screen - it appears I had a hardware problem. Finally the…