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Brian Bilbrey June 3, 2018

3 June 2018

Well, another wet week. We had, today alone, way more than the 1.5 inches the gauge shows. Over 12 inches of rain in the last month if my rain gauge (and memory) can be trusted. The good news is that, while muggy and warm yesterday, I managed to get all of the required outdoor work done: mowing, pruning, weeding, fertilizing. Today, shopping and a couple of hours of remote work (patching) took up the morning. The afternoon ... well. Marcia's been providing an extra bunch of hours to the theater for the last couple of weeks, what with people out…

Brian Bilbrey May 28, 2018

28 May 2018

Memorial Day for those in the US. All respect and honor to those who gave their lives in service to our Country and Constitution. * * * A busy week last week, building new systems for new services, retiring old systems, and generally doing modern system administration stuff. Continuing to build out the configuration management system to improve system repeatability, reliability, security, and availability. So there's that. The three day weekend had a bit of lawn work, a bit of garden work, coffee roaster maintenance and roasting, etc. Oh, and a bit of old-school wood working to make a cutting…

Brian Bilbrey May 14, 2018

14 May 2018

A day late, and a bit more than a dollar short. We missed the storms this evening by attending the ASC Cabaret - lovely. Weekend: yardwork, getting a bunch of stuff done, but just one bed fully prepared, planted, and protected from the wrascally wrabbits. * * * DoD reports no casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey May 6, 2018

6 May 2018

Whoops. One third of a year is gone. And we apparently went straight from Winter to Summer this last week. It was still Winter on Monday, with a frost coating all the lawns and roofs in our neighborhood. Spring lasted about 6 hours. I say this because, for me, Spring is the period of time between turning off the furnace, and turning on the air conditioning. That lasted about 6 hours on Wednesday (it was a 40°F wake-up temp), I figure the furnace was running until about 10 AM; I turned on the AC at 4 PM (it was 87°F…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2018

29 April 2018

Fun weekend. After the first full week back from vacation, I put in a grueling day and a half at BSidesCharm. Talks and panels all day and into the evening on Saturday, then I came back for half a day today. I missed a couple of afternoon talks and the closing ceremony so that I could catch up on the mowing, etc. Favorite talks: OSX/Pirrit by Amit Serper on Saturday, and Effective Monitoring by Russell Mosley and Ryan St. Germain on Sunday (yep, I'm biased about that one). The Saturday evening Straight Up panel was a lot of fun, only…