The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey July 28, 2014

A billion, billion comment spam

Well, that might be an exaggeration. It was more like a few hundred comment spam. Fortunately they were all so marked, making it easy to click--delete. * * * Monday? Monday?!? So sorry to have missed y'all, yesterday. I've been preparing for this week's RH300 course, and stayed pretty focused on that goal. We're covering 14 days of regular Red Hat coursework in four days of grueling review, followed by the RHCSA and RHCE exams on Friday. And the exams are ... challenging. I'm really good with the bits I use. And I can puzzle out the bits I don't…

Brian Bilbrey July 22, 2014

Tiger Lilies

The tiger lilies are in full bloom right now. There's the sad, short ones around the perimeter, however ... those were cropped by deer roaming the neighborhood. Still, tiger lilies: Tiger Lilies - 2014

Brian Bilbrey July 20, 2014

Cool July

We've had several days of unseasonably cool weather. I'm not complaining, mind you. But all the same, it's weird. Temps in the early mornings in the high 50's, and barely breaking into the low 80's. Who'd a thunk? But they let me take Lexi on a two mile walk this afternoon without arriving back home as a sweatball holding a dead dog. The garden, it fares poorly. I gave it virtually no attention in the days leading up to Marcia's surgery, nor in the weeks that followed that event. Bugs have killed my zucchini plants, the tomato plants are small-ish…

Brian Bilbrey July 14, 2014

Feel the Power

Outage Reported: The power outage in your area has already been reported. We anticipate having your service restored by 7/14/2014 7:45:00 PM. Generators are good. We just had a big thunder storm, lots of lightning and noise, with half an inch of rain delivered in about ten minutes. Just as it was wrapping up ... flash, sputter ... power is out. It tried a couple of times to spin back up within the first two minutes, then nothing. Given rain and a sump pump, I figured I might as well spin up the generator. Now everything except the air conditioning…

Brian Bilbrey July 13, 2014

Improbably So

A relatively lazy day for me today: just shopping, laundry, and coffee roasting. Yard stuff consumed the Saturday. Hot and muggy, still tonight, but storms are coming, and cooler weather is (unusually) due by mid-week (yay!) The garden is starting to produce some tomatoes and more peppers to join the zucchini and cucumbers. Maybe first salsa next week! Marcia's doing great. Up and down the stairs like a champ ... a hobbling champ, but much progress every day. She may be done with the cane by the end of this week, too, which is stellar. In my tiny elective time,…