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Brian Bilbrey December 17, 2017

17 December 2017

Friday was a snow day. Well, it *did* snow, and I was off work ... but those were unrelated events. I did get some home office change work done. Last weekend, I hung up the skeletal F6F3 Hellcat in the corner of the room. I'm still occasionally flinching as I see it out of the corner of my eye as I walk past: On Friday, I spent twenty minutes and built a laptop stand for my MBP so that I could set it up dual screen with the HDMI monitor I use for several systems here: Saturday evening, we re-attended…

Brian Bilbrey November 26, 2017

26 November 2017

For those in the US, I hope y'all had a lovely Thanksgiving. We enjoyed a wonderful evening and repast with friends and (their) family. Then it was back to work for me on Friday. Then, yesterday evening, we attended the glorious opening night premiere production of A Christmas Carol at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company! Highly recommended. * * * On the side, I'm spending some time working with/learning more about Django. And I'm still working on that balsa model. The tail surfaces are affixed, and shaping of the wing continues. * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the…

Brian Bilbrey November 19, 2017

19 November 2017

Whelp. I see from Barbara's postings that Bob is being cranky in the ICU, which is a pretty reasonable response, IMO. Pulling for a speedy recovery for him! * * * A busy work week, full of tasks, a holiday pot luck luncheon, and a lot of after-hours patching. All-in-all, productive and successful. I've also been working on the balsa model of the F6F-3 Hellcat fighter, you can find pictures of that over on my twitter feed (@bilborg). On the entertainment front, coming up soon from the Annapolis Shakespeare Company, we have the premiere of a new production of A…

Brian Bilbrey October 15, 2017

15 October 2017

On the face of it, three day work weeks are pretty nice. But I stay busy, and cramming a week's worth of productivity into three days is less fun than it sounds like. That said, I got done what needed doing, and the coming week is prepped and ready. * * * Last night, we went back for a second round of Annapolis Shakespeare's production of Much Ado About Nothing. With 17 actors and a two story set, there's always more going on than one can take in at one sitting. Since opening night, the actors have really settled into…

Brian Bilbrey October 1, 2017

1 October 2017

"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?" * * * I'll just leave that there, okay? In other news, I just called my oldest best friend (I've known him since I was four) to wish him a happy birthday, which was pleasant and fun. I also left a voice mail for pater and mater, they're probably out painting the town red. Some of our weekend was normal routine - shopping, roasting coffee, washing the car, going to the office to get some hardware maintenance done during off-hours, doing other chores, but... Speaking of painting the town red, we had…