The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey November 8, 2015

LISA15

The LISA 15 conference is in full swing. I was up at 0600, and on the road at 0630. People to see and things to do before two half-day tutorials today: Go for SysAdmins, and Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs. Both were interesting and potentially useful and applicable to my work. Tomorrow, I'm doing the System Internals course, but if there is too much overlap with Ted Ts'o's course from last year, then I'll bail at midday and attend the Systemd tutorial in the afternoon. Tuesday I've got a couple more tutorials on tap, followed by three days of conference…

Brian Bilbrey November 1, 2015

Central Time

Me, I'd set every clock to UTC, and just work with it. Marcia would, however, balk at the idea. Yep. DST is over for the "year" but they A) paid back the hour without interest, as usual, and B) are going to steal it back again in just a few months. Sigh. Fun: We went over to see the Annapolis Shakespeare Company production of As You Like It on Friday evening. It was a blast. I've seen two or three productions of As You Like It over the decades, but they've generally been fairly traditional stagings. Not that I'm knocking…

Brian Bilbrey October 25, 2015

Falling

Fall is well and truly here - and the temperatures are trying, occasionally, to match the season. We did drop into the low thirties a couple of nights, and once into the high twenties. Since, though, it's been warm-ish: mid-40's overnight, into the high 60's during the days. Lovely weather, really. I got some house cleaning done over the weekend, and shopping today. A bit of work for the office today, and lazy for the rest, sadly. What I should have done is finished the house cleaning, or done something else productive. Oh, well. Marcia and I are car-sharing this…

Brian Bilbrey October 18, 2015

Suicide by BMW

At 0635 EDT (pre-dawn at this time of year), a deer tried to commit BMW-assisted suicide while I was driving to work. I'd have to say, that deer is a failure. It got up and ran off, and my car is in the body shop for the next few days. Bummer, I know. It jumped out of the bushes ten feet in front of my car or less. I barely got to the brakes before the deer was in my grill. Torso to the grill, neck took out the headlight, and the head dented the driver-side front quarter panel. And…

Brian Bilbrey October 11, 2015

I'd better not get the flu...

I'd better not get the flu this season, because I've already paid the cover charge and over-tipped all the bouncers. Seriously. Thursday I got the regular dose (as opposed to high dose) quadrivalent flu vaccine for the season. Friday, I had the day off. I was taking the day to handle a couple of chores, and then attend Capclave for the two and a half days of programming, Friday through today. Yeah, that didn't happen. By midnight Thursday, I had aches and pains in the large muscles and joints, and a mild fever afflicted me. I was "fine" by Saturday…