The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey October 13, 2013

Downs and Ups

In one sense, it was a really bad week. Hours after I posted last Sunday, I became violently ill, almost certainly due to something I ate. After about 24 hours, I was able to start re-hydrating, and taking in such challenging foods as soda crackers (in small quantities - I had ten crackers, all of Tuesday). Wednesday was slightly better, and that night I slept through the night. So I went to my one day of work on Thursday, and got enough done. The upside of the week was Capclave, which I attended on Friday and Saturday. It was going…

Brian Bilbrey October 6, 2013

Fall II = Summer?

Hmmm. Six plus hours working in the yard yesterday, and nearly broken as a result. Why? It was nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit out. I was slamming the H2O and got through it. The garden beds are cleared, turned and mulched with leaves harvested from the front yard: After that was done, I mowed both front and back. Today I got the shopping done, then roasted coffee and cut my hair, and wrapped the day's chores by washing the car. That'll bring rain. I should probably wash the car more often if it does, since we've had only about 3/4" or…

Brian Bilbrey September 29, 2013

Fall Yard Work

Yesterday I worked in the front yard, cleaning out some stuff from the beds, giving all the shrubs a haircut, and mowing the grass. I found this bird's nest while I pruned the forsythia, and want to know if there's a recipe. This isn't, I think, the right type for bird's nest soup. To give you a sense of scale, this would comfortably hold but one golf ball... Today, I worked in the back yard. I pulled out about 10 pounds of potatoes, a couple of shopping bags full of peppers ... and that's about all she wrote for this…

Brian Bilbrey September 24, 2013

Liaden Book Time

Agent of Change Carpe Diem Plan B I Dare These I have read (relatively quickly, given how busy I am these days) - books written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I came across Agents of Change when it appeared in the Baen Free Library. I devoured it, and went to Baen to feed the habit. I ended up buying the Korval's Legacy Collection and the Phase Change Collection direct from Baen. Good pricing, ten books full of awesome. Taken together, the four books named above are a galaxy-spanning space opera that brought me to mind of the best of E. E. 'Doc' Smith and…

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2013

From the Vaults

Look what I dug up: I think I'll take it to work, and ask the mobile dev team to port one of our iOS apps to this platform. Then I'll run away, laughing.