Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey May 15, 2016

15 May 2016

According to the record books, this last stretch of rainy days ended at 15. But that was measured at a local airport. MY backyard meter got measurable rain on 18 consecutive days, with today being the first rain-free day. Yowza! And let me tell you how unhappy my plants are! They're not as unhappy as they might have been with a late hard frost, but too much water stunts and kills. The tomatoes haven't grown, and continuous moisture encourages early rust, which would be ... bad. The cantelope seedlings are dead. The happiest looking plants in my backyard (aside from…

Brian Bilbrey May 8, 2016

8 May 2016

I spent yesterday cleaning house, and half of today doing yard work. THEN Marcia let me know I was supposed to be doing that for my mom, not us! Wrong coast, be damned. Grin. Nothing much to report for the week. It was wet all last week, I think it rained every day. Even though today was sunny all day, it rained in the wee hours (very polite, that, if you ask me). The NOAA forecast for the week is, well, rain. Every day. The veggies that could be growing, aren't. The cantelopes are dying, sadly. We'll see if they…

Brian Bilbrey May 1, 2016

1 May 2016

Four months gone. Four. Sigh. So the good news is that we had a half-busy weekend. Starting Friday evening, I spent an hour or so preparing one corner of the garage for the new chest freezer. Saturday morning, I swapped out the crappy old AC socket for a new one, just in time for said freezer to put in an appearance. The balance of the day was spent touching every item in the garage, making a heap in the middle of the floor. Then we moved the shelving to the back wall, and put all the keeper stuff back on…

Brian Bilbrey April 24, 2016

24 April 2016

Another day, another birthday. And this one accompanied by a wonderful cake made by Marcia, with a decoration assist by Linda Rose: * * * I, of course, witnessed little of this activity, because I spent the weekend absorbing InfoSec goodness at BsidesCharm 2016. An excellent two day conference with interesting keynotes and talks. Because of the setup of Bsides, the sponsors don't get the attendee lists, there are no scannable badges, and sponsors don't automatically get speaker slots. Truth be told, in our area, the sponsors weren't there to sell (mostly), they were there to recruit. As one of…

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…