The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey March 13, 2016

13 March 2016

Friday the thirteenth falls on Daylight Stealing Time Sunday this month. Yay? * * * A good week and a productive weekend. Yesterday I got the spring fertilizer down on the lawn (in time for today's rain-in), and got the garden beds cleared of all the fall and over-winter cruft. I still have to turn over and amend the beds, but a start is a start, so I'll take it. I also did some aggressive pruning of the crepe myrtles in the front of the house, and weeded some of the beds there, too. Today? Well, I'm a bit sore…

Brian Bilbrey March 6, 2016

6 March 2016

Not much to report - it's not Spring yet, though it'll be trending that way in the week to come, with temps in the mid-70's. We had a couple of inches of snow on Friday, though. Soon it'll be time for the garden. So the days are getting longer, and the Sun is working its way north again, which means more sunning spots for Lexi, like this one in the front foyer: * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the most recent week, for which I am grateful. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey February 28, 2016

28 Feb 2016

One more day to go ... in February. So very odd. Did I mention that Marcia baked and decorated a wonderfully delicious cake for me to take to work in celebration of a recent parenthood event? Yeah, this is it: Well, that's part of the cake. We'd already started digging into it before I was thoughtful enough to take pictures of my own. Delicious: chocolate in many ways, plus raspberry compote layers in between. And I'm told there are very few calories involved. I should believe that, I think. * * * Yesterday, I got the new over-the-range microwave oven…

Brian Bilbrey February 21, 2016

21 Feb 2016

It's been a busy week and weekend. Lots of fun stuff at work, including setup for production patching this weekend and a big physical-to-virtual migration of a production workload. Several of us worked on it for several hours today, but somehow most of the tasks on the spreadsheet had my name on it ... funny how that happens. So my work day today started at 0700 and wrapped up at about 1300, with a bit more email and ticket work late in the afternoon. * * * Additionally, it was unseasonably warm this weekend, with temps in the mid-to-high 50's.

Brian Bilbrey February 14, 2016

14 Feb 2016

Happity Saint Valentine's Day. Did y'all have a nice massacre? To pre-celebrate the day, we went out to supper and the theatre last night. The show was Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Anton Chekov's Three Sisters. It was a crowded main stage (20' x 25'), between set dressing and at times all eleven cast members at once! Three sisters is a melancholy and ever-so-slightly depressing drama about the titular sisters and their brother, trapped far from the desired Moscow in a semi-rural backwater of Russia. As the play opens, with their father the General dead a year past, the family's…