Exercise ⁽²⁷⁾

Brian Bilbrey January 1, 2017

1 Jan 2017

Happy New Year. Observe that I am expressing a hope, rather than a prediction. The good thing about expecting a depressingly awful sequel to last year's trash fire is that, while it CAN be worse than I imagine, it MIGHT also be better than I expect. Pleasant surprises may ensue. Things that continue to be true: That's enough of a list for me. The more I take on, the less I may accomplish. So, today was good. And this wasn't on that list, but it's a (re-)start: 6/11/4270(35m/604c). The BEST list I saw today is this one: Elizabeth (@twoscooters) Sampat's…

Brian Bilbrey October 2, 2016

2 October 2016

A good week: At work, I got several long-term tasks completed. Things went well enough that I took Friday off. To celebrate that banner event, I spent the morning cleaning the main floor of the house, then went out to lunch with a friend from NFR days. It was great to see Sharon, and we had a nice chat while enjoying an excellent meal at Woodmont Grill. From there, she went back to her office, and I headed up the road to the Apple Store in Columbia. I now have a new small tablet, and it's ALSO a phone! The…

Brian Bilbrey September 4, 2016

04 September 2016

Happy Birthday, Pete! * * * It's been a fun week. It was a three day work week for me - I took off Thursday and Friday to burn some hours and make a five day weekend happen. I got some chores done. We went fishing (and Marcia caught a small-ish big mouth bass that we gave back to the lake): And on a long walk around the neighborhood, Lexi was perplexed: The Fitbit says I did five days of exercise, although I only did three dedicated exercise days, truth be told. But the work counts. Sadly, so do the…

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 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…