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Brian Bilbrey September 6, 2015

Magic Blue

Or some silly color name like that. Anyway, that's the exterior color of Marcia's new car. She decided that hauling around her quilting friends and her quilting stuff in a low-slung, two door convertible was getting less and less convenient. So after driving a few different vehicles, she ended up with a Volvo V60T5 - one of their little sport wagons. Nice lines, I think, and she's happy, which is a good thing. I've spend a number of hours this weekend working on a project for $OFFICE, and got the front yard brown stuff mowed a bit flatter, too. Mostly…

Brian Bilbrey July 26, 2015

Tiring

It was a good week. I pulled out another five gallons of mostly tomatoes on Tuesday, and made a pot of red sauce with most of them. Others I took to work and assorted other Friends of Tomatoes. Then there was Saturday... Saturday started off with Marcia having decided that since she had terrible luck fishing at Centennial Lake, nearby, we should BOTH go, early on a Saturday. Early, in my case, meant waking up not before seven - it was a long week. So, out of the house before eight, and at the water's edge casting by about 0830.

Brian Bilbrey June 21, 2015

Stormtime

Yes, yes, according to the calendar, it's called Summer. But around here, it's Stormtime. The calendar season of Summer coincides with the combination of heat, humidity and passing fronts that yields lovely, lovely thunderstorms. Well, *I* like them, more or less. Lexi, however... For a while, she just sat there in the corner of the sectional sofa, facing the cushions, and shaking. Finally she yielded and tried to hide behind me (or between me and the cushions). That may have involved trying to excavate a cavity either in a cushion, or through my kidneys. Hmmm. The other less fun thing…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

Breakage, updated...

It turns out I didn't break my Wordpress install. But my home IP address *had* changed, and I have lots of things locked down to specific IP addresses for access. So I've got two of the three sites puzzled out. But one of them appears to have a broken theme directory. I'll be looking into that now... [A few minutes later, after looking at logfiles] Yup - the twentyeleven theme needed fixing on another site - I refreshed the whole thing, and I'll keep a close eye on it in the next short while. I don't remember mucking about in…

Brian Bilbrey April 20, 2015

Yard, Themes

This weekend, I was working in the yard. The garden beds, they are ready for plants: That, along with mowing the lawns, twice, and cleaning out all of the front flower beds, took up most of Friday and Saturday. Sunday was rest (or its best friend, immobility). * * * Theme update: The theme, it is currently a bit hideous, but now mobile friendly, due to changes in how Google search results will be ranked. Here's a useful link on the topic from Digital Trends. Expect more work on this over the coming days. * * * Tech. Sgt. Anthony…