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Brian Bilbrey February 28, 2016

28 Feb 2016

One more day to go ... in February. So very odd. Did I mention that Marcia baked and decorated a wonderfully delicious cake for me to take to work in celebration of a recent parenthood event? Yeah, this is it: Well, that's part of the cake. We'd already started digging into it before I was thoughtful enough to take pictures of my own. Delicious: chocolate in many ways, plus raspberry compote layers in between. And I'm told there are very few calories involved. I should believe that, I think. * * * Yesterday, I got the new over-the-range microwave oven…

Brian Bilbrey March 1, 2015

Ice

The weather liar says this is the first day of meteorological Spring. The weather itself says, "ICE!" They've been treating the roads and such, but there's an eighth to a quarter inch of ice on lots of the rest of our area. Trees are deeply unhappy, with branches coming off due to weight. Lovely, really. And such a pleasure when taking the dog for a walk. Today: Patching systems remotely for work, weekly food shopping, roasted coffee: I generally roast early enough that the beans have enough time to rest for at least three days (and outgas most of the…

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 March 3, 2013

Quiet Sunday

After yesterday, all I managed today was the weekly grocery shopping, a bit of furniture painting, and the roasting of the coffee (a Guatamala Huehuetenango Finca Reglaito, from Sweet Maria's). * * * Further good news, no caualties reported in the last week by DoD. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey November 21, 2011

New Coffee Roasting Cart

So, I've got the week off, this week. And we're not going anywhere, so I have time for projects, mixed in with the schoolwork. The first project is to clean up and reorganize the woodshop a bit. To do that, I need to get the coffee roaster and vent hood off of my workbench, where it's lived for the last two years. I haven't minded much, because I've been too busy to do much woodworking, but you never know. Sitting in a box. I had components for a 6' tall slender rack, rolling or standing. An alternative is to build…