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Brian Bilbrey

11 Feb 2016

Lexi under a shawl Yeah, Lexi is a spoiled dog and she knows it, but all on her own, she'll go find something a bit like a blanket, on whatever piece of furniture is convenient. She'll burrow in, then turn a couple of times and end up with her face poking out so that she can see what's going on. Just in case we're doing anything interesting, don't you know? This time, it was Marcia's red shawl, draped (for a while) on the back of the sofa. Lexi hauled that down, and draped herself. Cute as beans. * * *…

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Brian Bilbrey

9 Feb 2016

Disappointing. Snow fell for about 18 hours, leaving a total accumulation of ... nothing. A smattering on the grass, a damp road surface. It was just too darn warm coming into this event - the storm never had a chance. It didn't even frighten the schools in my county into closing - and they frighten real easy! * * * A challenging day at work, with Internet issues external to our sphere of control, but massively annoying, taking center stage. That, plus a failed piece of hardware, made the first half of my day disappear. I'll get caught up, somehow…

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Brian Bilbrey

7 February 2016

I see that I missed y'all last week. No particular reason, at first, I was just busy. But as I broke into the last week, a strong cold hit me like a tonne of bricks, then morphed into the flu. Today was my first properly upright day since Tuesday last. I'm gonna have to talk to the doc about this shizzle at my next physical (a couple of months 0ff). After a good couple of years, I've been running into a bad stretch of health, and I can't figure why. Oh, well. Life goes on, until it doesn't. * *…

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Brian Bilbrey

25 Jan 2016

Snowzilla, revisited. Here's the "view" of the mailbox on sunny Sunday morning at 10° F, 12 hours after the storm ended. The driveway and sidewalk I'd cleared out had refilled pretty well: After Snowzilla

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