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Brian Bilbrey December 4, 2016

4 Dec 2016

We had a lovely supper tonight at Seasons 52 in Columbia - a holiday dinner with my co-workers and plus ones. I had half a chicken, Marcia had some seared cow, both were delicious. Dessert: tiny, delicious, and overpriced. Still, we'll go there again: Recommended. Marcia continues to make great progress in her hip replacement recovery. She's been driving for a week now, and spending a fair bit of time standing, walking, and working on stuff in the house each day. Huzzah! The week was weird. I took a couple of vacation days on Thursday and Friday. Got a few…

Brian Bilbrey November 13, 2016

13 Nov 2016

Friday the thirteenth falls on a Sunday this month. And it's nigh unto first "supermoon" (the concurrence of the moon's orbital perigee and the sun/earth/moon syzygy) in 68 years (although the moon won't be actually full until tomorrow at around 9AM EST). We have a nice view of that large, bright moon on this cloudless evening - very cool. Meantime, when I'm not actively taking care of Marcia in her hip-replacement recovery routine, Lexi is filling in - keeping chairs warm, for example: I managed several hours at work this week, and I have also been making progress on a…

Brian Bilbrey August 28, 2016

28 Aug 2016

Well, another busy week gone. Sadly, I'm a cranky bastard today because they had a late-night party at the pool last night that ran until midnight (a bit later, actually) with loud music. It was a neighborhood-approved event, so I didn't set the cops on them, but I'll bitch about it to the management and the board. If they can't control the volume, I don't want my HOA fees going to that sort of event. The restless first part of the night leaves me feeling altogether unrested. Sigh. The good news is that next weekend is the last weekend for…

Brian Bilbrey June 16, 2016

16 June 2016

Friday last, while at the office, I patched and rebooted the server this site and others runs on. That's not totally uncommon: unlike most of the servers I manage for work purposes, I had no remote console access to my server. And since $FIRM kindly gives me power and pipe for this place, that's just fine. Sadly, upon reboot, I waited ... and waited, and finally went into the data center and connected the crash cart to the system. Um, kernel panics and NMI (non-maskable interrupts) all over the screen - it appears I had a hardware problem. Finally the…

Brian Bilbrey June 9, 2016

9 June 2016

The weather has cooled dramatically, after a day of wind and a spot of rain yesterday. This morning it was 47° F during my drive in. Busy week, what with chores and a CALUG (Columbia-Area Linux Users Group) meeting last night. The speaker was Eddie Roache, on the topic of Docker. That's something I know very little about, which makes it fun! Now all I have to do is find time and resources to play with it... Exercise: Monday - 60 sit-ups, 40 squats, 24 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 6150 strides on the elliptical in 46 minutes. Tuesday - 48…