Exercise (27)

Brian Bilbrey

10 July 2016

Let's work the week backwards, just for fun. Today was all about the mowing. The weather was not as hot as most of the week, so I had that going for me. But it was still a miserable sweatball of a day. But the lawns have been sheared, and I did some weeding as well. Bell peppers out of the garden today, a few tomatoes, and a couple of cucumbers. Here's how the garden looks as of today: * * * Last night, we went up to Annapolis to see ASC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented outdoors in…

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Brian Bilbrey

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…

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Brian Bilbrey

12 June 2016

My heart goes out to all affected by the terrorist attack in Orlando. * * * Four days ago it was 47° F on my drive in, before 7 AM. This morning before 7 AM, it was 30 degrees warmer than that, and consequently a lot warmer today. Still, I got a few chores done. There wasn't a need to mow this weekend - we'd had no rain in the last week, and so the lawns pretty much stopped growing. I got some weeding done in the garden beds. And today I got the front automated watering setup working, and…

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Brian Bilbrey

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…

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Brian Bilbrey

5 June 2016

On the exercise front: Monday - Holiday. Tuesday - 75 sit-ups, 50 squats, 30 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 5100 strides on the elliptical in 38 minutes. Wednesday - 45 sit-ups, 30 squats, 18 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 6060 strides on the elliptical in 45 minutes. Thursday - 60 sit-ups, 40 squats, 24 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 6130 strides on the elliptical in 45 minutes. Friday - My back was wonky from a new addition to the "assorted stretches", so I took the day off. I didn't even get up to 10K steps (but close-ish at 8900). Saturday and Today -…

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