The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey August 24, 2014

Yellow

Unlike Arthur Dent, I won't be seeing yellow (first) on a Thursday, but on a Monday. The buses start rolling tomorrow: screwing up the traffic, and taking kids to the place where they can practice disrespecting teachers, learning, and each other every day for the next 9 or so months. Actually, for PG County kids, it's the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders getting accelerated remedial disrespecting tomorrow, then ALL the kids are on the bus come Tuesday. The weekend was full of chores. Saturday was house cleaning. Today was yard work. I should have roasted coffee today, but fell asleep…

Brian Bilbrey August 20, 2014

Back in the Groove

After several weeks of very intermittent exercise, and some backsliding on the dietary controls, I'm back in the groove, I think ... Good exercise days - two days running at almost precisely the same pace. Excellent! * * * I use OpenSSH for nearly all of my computing platform access, except for that OS from Redmond. Secure access to commandline environments meets about 90% (a made up number, gut check says "true") of my requirements. It'd be more, but I access a lot of monitoring services via a browser. But close to 100% of actual work is done via commandline…

Brian Bilbrey August 17, 2014

Push Through

I'm tired. There's been a fair bit of unscheduled work over the last few days, leading to sleepus interruptus. But I got done what must be done, and a fair bit else besides. The big project of the weekend was a bit of reconstruction on the front step, which has been sinking away pretty much since the house was built. For some reason, they didn't rebar the step into the concrete porch. What I need to do is break that old step out, drill some holes into the porch and epoxy in some rebar, then pour a new step. But…

Brian Bilbrey August 10, 2014

Summer?

We're ten days into August, the last (usually) properly hot and humid month of the year ... and we've only made it up out of the 80's into the low 90's ONE day this month. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Our electric bills are lower, the house is more comfortable, etc. But this definitely bodes, eh? If the ice comes in September, I'm going to be upset. * * * In other news, like most non-lazy people, my time is defined by the work I do. Yesterday: patching an ESXi host, and mowing the lawns. The latter was a big…

Brian Bilbrey August 4, 2014

What I'm Reading - The Setup

Tech note - when you see a Twitter handle here, it's because I follow that person/entity there. For Twitter curation, I tend to lean towards the tech/tech security sector, with a light mixture of non-tech people added in. What I'm Reading - The Setup Recently, @deirdres (Deirdré Straughan) brought to my attention a brief interview with @brendangregg (Brendan Gregg) that was running on The Setup (http://usesthis.com/). Huh? The Setup is a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done. Ah, yeah. Now, you see, that's something that I can…