The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey December 21, 2015

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…

Brian Bilbrey December 15, 2015

15 Dec 2015

Life is, by some definitions, a process of learning new things. The wonderful new thing I learned Sunday night is that my food-borne GI problems from the weekend before were not, in fact, caused by food from the new restaurant we tried that last Saturday evening. Instead, my homemade chili, that I've been eating from off and on over the last two weeks, was to blame. I can't explain how whatever was in the chili only affected me really badly but twice... in hindsight, I had a couple of intermittently "bad days" in there that weren't at the level of…

Brian Bilbrey December 13, 2015

13 Dec 2015 - Wonderful

It's a Wonderful Life - staged as a 40's radio play - was presented in properly wonderful fashion by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company for our amusement this afternoon. We decided to hit the matinee instead of an evening performance because, frankly, I'm still recovering a bit from last weekend's fun. But I'm at 90%, and took great joy in ASC's 110% performance this afternoon. George Bailey's story is one that many people know from the marvelous 1946 movie with Jimmy Stewart. I loved this live production directed by Jay Brock, which featured Kevin Alan, Sally Boyett, Nick DePinto, Rob McQuay,…

Brian Bilbrey December 6, 2015

2015 Dec 6

Sigh. Something I ate last night seriously disagreed with me. Up at 0100 with ... okay, no details. But since noon today, I've had a few saltines, a couple of fruit cups, and two glasses of water. As the rest of me started feeling just that little bit better ... the lack-of-caffeine headache kicked in. I'm not going to try to solve that until tomorrow morning (I'm taking tomorrow off). * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey November 29, 2015

2015 Nov 29

LISA 15 Report The LISA 2015 conference was held this year at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, off Connecticut Avenue in north east DC. It's 15 miles from home, but the best driving time I had was Wednesday (Veteran's Day) morning, which took half an hour, and the worst was a bit over 1.5 hours, coming home in weeknight traffic, in the rain. It's a nice venue, though I've never stayed there, only attended events. Saturday night was badge pickup and opening reception. I attended that mostly to do a handoff of the give-away items for the LOPSA general business…