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Brian Bilbrey February 5, 2020

5 February 2020

So, we've had a week that was somewhere between t-shirt and sweatshirt weather. Very weird for late January into early February. This is normally the core of snow season here just south of the Mason-Dixon line. But we've only been graced with a pittance of the white fluffy stuff so far this year. Upside - no shoveling yet. Downside - I might have to start doing outside spring work much, much earlier than I expected. I've been reading ... mostly Clarkesworld Magazine, and Neil's related project, Forever Magazine. (Yes, yes ... not HTTPS, I have to get on Neil's case…

Brian Bilbrey January 13, 2020

13 Jan 2020

It falls on a Monday this month. I can tell. All in, though, it was a good weekend, and today: a productive start to the week. The downside is, there are so many things I'd like to accomplish and not enough time for them all, much less relaxing. So I'm doing more relaxing and less of the things. For now, that's okay. There's not much else going on for us. Watching the brinksmanship and idiocy going on in the upper reaches is something else again. I finished up nearly all of the novels in the Liaden Universe series. I've not…

Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2019

3 November 2019

I was four paragraphs into the first pass on this post when I managed to hit a stupid combination of keys on the Apple keyboard and moved backwards three links. Whoops, I thought, and went looking for the auto-saved draft. Um, not there? Sigh. Okay, take two - I wonder how much this iteration is going to vary from the last? Fall is finally, properly, here. Six weeks in, and we finally got two consecutive nights below freezing. We're due for another frost tonight before it warms up just a shade. Also, for the first time, the snow icon made…

Brian Bilbrey October 14, 2019

14 October 2019

Yup, like it or not, the questionable "discovery" of the "new world" by Columbus is still a Federal holiday here in the land where some are free, and some are brave. Since my employer follows that holiday schedule, I was off work today. Yay? Certainly, especially since I didn't have to travel to Columbus, Ohio, to celebrate. Don't get me wrong - I'm in Columbus a couple of times a year for work, and enjoy the friendly people and good food a LOT! But it's a long drive, and I do have to be in the office bright and early…

Brian Bilbrey October 6, 2019

6 October 2019

Yep, it's been two weeks since last time. A week ago Saturday we went out to Centennial Lake and spent the morning fishing. I caught one small bass, 13-14" long: I've also been doing a lot of reading: Clarkesworld, Forever Magazine, Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger Trilogy, Neil Gaiman's Don't Panic, and not least: everything I can reasonably lay hands on by Martha Wells and Robert J. Sawyer in advance of this year's Capclave (where Wells and Sawyer are GoH!!!). This weekend I managed a fair bit of yardwork out front - cleaning out the beds and preparing to winterize the…