The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey March 17, 2014

Dreaming of a White St. Paddy's Day

Echoes of Bing Crosby chasing around my head as I look outside: A downside is that there's a couple more inches of the stuff headed our way, so I'll be waiting to clear the driveway and sidewalks until mid-afternoon. And I'll just have to assume that the snow peas are happy as clams in a snow-covered planting bed. * * * Here's the laptop pedestal I built and finished over the weekend. It's designed to sit on top of a regular desk, to be a stylish standing desktop for laptop and mouse. It can also move down to floor level,…

Brian Bilbrey March 16, 2014

Mo' Snow

It has started snowing again, and is supposed to throughout St. Patrick's Day. Weird, eh? Lexi is gonna be cranky when all of her spots are covered up with snow, again! No real other news, I've had a busy weekend and gotten lots accomplished, from shopping and haircut to coffee roasting and building a small woodshop project for a coworker. Oh, yeah, and patched some Solaris boxen, and ... well, you get the idea. Sleep is for the weak. * * * No casualties were announced by DoD in the last week.

Brian Bilbrey March 11, 2014

Sun Dog

Lexi says that "I'm a sundog, and you'd better not make any shade." Sun Dog

Brian Bilbrey March 9, 2014

Time Bandits

They've been, and gone, and an hour of my life has been stolen from me. Worse yet, I had patching duties this morning early, and the vague worry about over-sleeping meant I actually slept very little. Sigh. However, it was seasonably warm here this weekend: mid-50's yesterday, high 40's today, so I wore shorts all weekend, yay! Walking the dog past shrinking piles of snow while wearing shorts made me unreasonably happy. I also made an early start in the garden: I turned over one bed, and planted snow peas. Just in time for possibly more snow, Wednesday night into…

Brian Bilbrey March 3, 2014

Pictures or It Didn't Happen

Some of you may not have heard Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra singing Pictures (or It Didn't Happen), off of the most excellent and awesome album, Theatre is Evil. I will say that, although I love this song, it isn't my favorite song off the album. But the song is appropriate for this post... So I got the first coat of spar urethane onto the birdhouse this morning: And Lexi continues to relax in one of her accustomed spots. I think that she's waiting for sun that isn't going to appear today: The snow continues to fall, we're…