The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey February 1, 2015

Super?

There's a football game on the tube. We watched the first half, decided that 14-all meant it was a new game... and we weren't starting over again. So. Good luck, Tom and the gang! I will vote on most depressing commercial of the first half, though ... that Nissan commercial with the absentee, almost died several times, race car driver dad. Really? Really?!? Not much progress on the basement this weekend. We're adjusting sleep patterns as pain management changes - that plus several hours of on-site and remote work this weekend left me with enough energy for food shopping, laundry,…

Brian Bilbrey January 25, 2015

Productivity

This weekend marks another transition for Marcia - she's stopped taking the rat poison (Coumadin, aka Warfarin). That also means that she doesn't have to wear the compression stockings anymore, which makes her very happy. She should sleep much better tonight. She's solo'ing up and down the stairs, but not leg-over-leg yet. Progress is. * * * I spent the weekend on two different primary tasks. The first was a bit of patching of Linux production systems late last night and early this morning, during the appropriate maintenance windows for the systems in question. Much of the balance of the…

Brian Bilbrey January 18, 2015

Rainy Days and Sundays

Well, they don't get me down, but when it's rain drops with little ice spears embedded in each one, it's not a pleasant thing to be walking in (or loading the groceries into the car during, for one executed example). We had about 2cm of rain today - at peak, the sump pump was running every two minutes. Today was productive on the home front: Shopping, Laundry, cleaned up my office. I also opened up Serenity, the home server, and replaced the back panel fan with one that has manual speed settings, so that I can knock down some of…

Brian Bilbrey January 12, 2015

Wotcher, World

Well, I *intended* to put up at least a brief post last night, but the world conspired against me. Or Jack Frost did. Hard to tell, really. Marcia is doing well. Her surgery last Monday went off without a hitch, and she's plowing through her Physical Therapy goals without hardly blinking an eye. Of course, when she plows through those goals, she reaches points of real pain pretty quickly. That's what the pain meds are for - to control things while she does the necessary work. Speaking of work, other than a couple of hours worth of email, I haven't…

Brian Bilbrey January 4, 2015

Going Fast

The year sure is flying by. It seems that New Year's Day was only a couple of days ago, and already 1% of my year is gone already! As anticipated, I did get some flooring installed in the basement on Parade/Bowl Day, too: The flooring goes down pretty easy. I made use of my Dremel multi-tool to get under the edges of door jams and such. In the last couple of days, I fabricated some maple edge transitions, and got them installed today (pictures some other day). There's still floor prep + painting and moulding to apply before the project…