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Brian Bilbrey November 20, 2016

20 Nov 2016

Windy, cold day today. Quite a shift from yesterday's 70° loveliness. That's okay. I stayed busy all week and all weekend. Today, for example: Marcia is doing great. She's done with the cane, mostly. She did most of the laundry work today, other than the "carry bits up and down the stairs" part. Strength is going up, pain is going down, and she's weening off the last of the heavy pain killers in the next couple of days. Next up: Driving! We enjoyed watching the first episode of Amazon's new car show: The Grand Tour this week! I'd missed having…

Brian Bilbrey September 25, 2016

25 Sept 2016

By the calendar, it's Fall. By my reckoning, we're really close. I count "Fall" as the first morning below 50° F. Close, today, at 52°. A busy work week, productive but long after several "short" weeks under my belt. I also went to the office yesterday to do some work that required off-business hours AND onsite for "just in case the SAN firmware update fails." All went smoothly this time, thank FSM. The big events of the weekend were yard work ones. I used the hedge trimmers and the electric chainsaw to clear out the front garden beds and rid…

Brian Bilbrey July 17, 2016

17 July 2016

A long week, and not much in the way of exercise, either. I only got one proper day of exercise in, on Tuesday. The rest of the days were too busy, too hot, or both. But there was some good news: Yup, first salsa! Huzzah! Still no jalapeños, so here's the ingredients: That made a mighty fine salsa! * * * Of note, I went to a CALUG meeting on Wednesday, where Berend Tober spoke on his PostgreSQL-based trading game, Fairwinds. Interesting stuff, because I know less about PostgreSQL than several of the other database systems extant. Now I know…

Brian Bilbrey April 17, 2016

17 April 2016

This was a good week. Not a great week - that would have required all seven days to have been above 32° F for the full 24 hours each. That only happened four times. That said, work was good and productive, including the weekend work that ate half of yesterday, as well as patching last night and this morning. The rest of the weekend was given to yard work of assorted types. I mostly did lawn care, but we did get a couple of new rose bushes for the front porch pots, a couple of herbs for the herb box…

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…