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Brian Bilbrey

Work Week Plus

The work week started early ... really early. I was up at 0500 this morning, and at my desk at the office by 0555. We had an 8 hour maintenance window to do a raft of VMware and other patching. Licensing issues prevent us from doing things the easy way, so we get outage windows and do things the hard way. That includes getting key virtual machines back online before 0800 on Sunday morning. It was actually a pretty good day - we finished up with two hours left in the maintenance window, which is good estimating. Had something gone…

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Brian Bilbrey

A Good Day

Work was work. But the workout was good. After a bit of stretch, I put in 60 sit ups, 21 push ups, and this: My UP app (from Jawbone, same as the UP24 I wear) tells me I've done a million monitored steps since I first put on the device on 31 May. A significant percentage, more than half I'd guess, was done on the elliptical. Go me!

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Brian Bilbrey

Late Summer

With three weeks to go in Summer (proper), summer in terms of weather and humidity finally arrived this week. A few days up into the low 90's brought us some unpleasant heat and occasionally lots of rain. Last night we had 1.3" here alone. I didn't look at the weather radar at the time so I don't know how broad that front was. But we had lightning and rain for the best part of three hours. Leading up to that, I spent about 5 hours working out in the yard. Some of that was regular stuff like mowing and cleaning…

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Brian Bilbrey

Labor Day

Labor Day. It means "do chores at home instead of working at the office", I think. I certainly did. Marcia asked last night if I'd put up my usual Sunday post. I figured that since it was a three day weekend, I'd put up my post on the last day of the weekend. Yes, that's reasoned procrastination. So, chores much of the weekend, working in the basement on the floor, etc. We have new neighbors across the street, which is nice (and they're nice, too). Tonight, I grilled some chickens, and now I'm here. But I'm not going to drone…

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