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Brian Bilbrey

3 Jan 2016

Happy New Year, y'all! I've spent the last two weeks holidaying, eating, reading, relaxing, doing chores, and fixing things around the house. Tomorrow, I go back to work. Grumble. Not really grumble. I enjoy my work. I appreciate and respect the team of people I work with. Especially, I love to stay busy. I have specific goals for the next two weeks - a lot of stuff to accomplish and document in a relatively short amount of time, so I'll be very busy indeed. That makes me happy. In the woodshop over the last few days, I've been working on…

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Brian Bilbrey

27 Dec 2015

Another busy weekend gone by. I was doing some clean up in the shop, and came across a stack of 2x2 acoustic tile matching the small section of drop ceiling in the basement kitchen. Wonderful - I have a few of those that need replacing. A couple of them had holes in them, not hard to replace. Another one, though, was severely bowed by the HVAC vent attached to a floating, insulated feeder. The additional weight had bent the tile nearly an inch out of true. Were I to just replace it, the tile would be good for a year…

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Brian Bilbrey

24 Dec 2015

Happy Christmas eve, if that's your thing. Today I've finished up, finally, the second plumbing job I started on the weekend. I was reconnecting the sink and trap in the foyer area in the basement. It'll be handy for a variety of purposes, so that's all good. In other news, I traded up in cars. After a few squirrelly episodes last winter, I found myself wishing for a four wheel drive car again. I still wanted "fun to drive", but "massively fun to drive, yet safer" (say an Audi R10) is out of my reach. I'd also been mulling the…

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Brian Bilbrey

21 Dec 2015

A day late, and a vacation dollar short. Yep, vacation. I'm "off work" for the next two weeks, which means that I only keep an eye on email, and respond if SMS messages flow my way. But for the purposes of day-to-day operations, I'm offline. Yay! * * * In other good news, no vomiting in more than a week, so I've got that going for me. * * * Please note that policy requires the new disclaimer in the footer of this site. So noted. * * * The weekend flew by with assorted home-maintenance chores. They were mostly…

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