The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey April 5, 2015

Pushing harder

First, exercise. I've been pushing a lot harder the last couple of weeks. I'll do 20-30 minutes of alternating stretches and exercise (squats, sit-ups, push-ups), followed by 45+ minutes on the elliptical. My "best" day of the week was yesterday: I managed 60 minutes, 8200 strides, 1000+ calories burned on the machine. I probably pushed too hard - it hurt when I did a normal workout today. But overall, I feel better, and I sleep better. Those are both good things. I skipped a day on Wednesday. The body was demanding a short break, and the UP24 was mis-behaving. Taken…

Brian Bilbrey March 29, 2015

Staying Busy

It's a long list of small-ish chores that got done this weekend, too dull to enumerate. But lots got done, which is good. We're hopeful that by next weekend, Marcia will have the sewing room and fabric room reassembled and nice enough to show y'all a picture or two of how it came out. But right now it's a slice of Hell for the compulsive tidier... It was pretty cold this weekend - hovering around freezing. So, no yard work (not that I had time for any). On the exercise front, I'm back in full swing, however. According to my…

Brian Bilbrey March 22, 2015

Spring Snows

Yep. On the day that encompassed the Spring Equinox, we had an inch of snow. Lovely, really. More to the point, it never really shifted over to warmer rain and melt away before Spring proper. So, Winter, still, then. Lovely. A couple of school districts closed, several were delayed by a couple of hours (until the snow started falling ... odd, that), but other than that, nothing too exciting. My week was full of working each day on things that I hadn't planned on doing. Like most weeks, really. The weekend, though, went exactly as planned. Several hours of remote…

Brian Bilbrey March 16, 2015

Making Do...

Sewing room, reassembling I'm still recovering from a weekend of painting and remote work ... but Marcia's sewing room is coming back together. Saturday I did the walls and bulkheads, cutting in by hand then rolling out the flats. Sunday, after several hours of remote work, I crawled about on the floor, painting the trim. Sunday evening, I moved some of the cabinets in, and started moving in tables and equipment. Marcia's happy, I think. Me? I'm just tired. Sorry for missing last night. * * * Three months with no casualties reported by DoD. Huzzah! Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey March 8, 2015

Spring coming; International Women's Day

But let's do this the other way around: International Women's Day. The joke du'jour involves "of course it's the day with just 23 hours" (in most of the US, anyway). But frankly, with women being treated badly in every old way, and in the various new ways that the Internet has spawned, it needs more than a day. Women are people. All people deserve respect. That's the bottom line. And when people like Brianna Wu (Chief Panjandrum of Development at Giant Spacekat, @spacekatgal on teh twitters, outstanding geek feminist, and recipient of death, rape, and family threats daily) continually has…