The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey January 7, 2014

Pro Puppet, Second Edition, Grumble.

Well. I'm now plowing through Pro Puppet, Second Edition, in a continuing effort to be useful in integrating configuration management into my environments at work and here at home. But the publisher website doesn't have features promised by the book, the publisher website doesn't seem to accept and post the errata I've discovered, and now the Puppet Labs blog post about the book has marked my comment on their post as "Spam". Um, really? Here's the comment I tried to post to the blog: Hint 2 - ALWAYS say what file the code snippet goes into. Very frustrating. Hint 3…

Brian Bilbrey January 5, 2014

Pre-cooling

While the West is unseasonably warm and horribly dry, we're hovering around normal on precipitation here in this back yard - .28" measured for 2014 to date. But the temps we've got coming are something else again. Today was a summer-ish 38° F, with some rain to knock down most of the snow, more's the pity. It was pretty outside, but not so much, now. Day after tomorrow, we should be around 0-2° F over night, with a high around 12° or so. That's cold, baby! And dicey driving on roads slick with snow-melt that stopped melting. After that, oddly,…

Brian Bilbrey January 3, 2014

After the Fall

We ended up with about 5" of snow here. Better than those north of us... Boston, for example. Here's what things looked like after shoveling off the driveway, as I was ready to depart for work around 0730 (about an hour late): Oh, yeah. And we're due for low single digit temps tonight, huzzah! Happy Friday.

Brian Bilbrey January 2, 2014

Let it Snow!

Snowfall 1/2/14 As of noon, we were due for maybe an inch of snow, if that, according to forecast. But looking at the radar even then, it was clear that the cold line was further south than predicted. We're at about three-four inches on the deck, maybe two in the street, and I'm guessing another inch or so before it's all done. Um, yay?

Brian Bilbrey December 29, 2013

Trapped Between Holidays

Two Wednesday holidays back to back makes for broken work weeks and broken routines. I like routines - a well-ordered life makes me happy. That said, we had a nice, quiet Christmas day at home. We called relatives here, there, and everywhere. For supper, we enjoyed more turkey. The next evening we watched the Doctor Who stuff that we'd picked up on the DVR on Christmas night. I enjoyed that immensely. I got some work done over the weekend - not as much as I'd hoped, but that's the joy of doing things that need to be done off hours.