Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey February 21, 2016

21 Feb 2016

It's been a busy week and weekend. Lots of fun stuff at work, including setup for production patching this weekend and a big physical-to-virtual migration of a production workload. Several of us worked on it for several hours today, but somehow most of the tasks on the spreadsheet had my name on it ... funny how that happens. So my work day today started at 0700 and wrapped up at about 1300, with a bit more email and ticket work late in the afternoon. * * * Additionally, it was unseasonably warm this weekend, with temps in the mid-to-high 50's.

Brian Bilbrey February 14, 2016

14 Feb 2016

Happity Saint Valentine's Day. Did y'all have a nice massacre? To pre-celebrate the day, we went out to supper and the theatre last night. The show was Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Anton Chekov's Three Sisters. It was a crowded main stage (20' x 25'), between set dressing and at times all eleven cast members at once! Three sisters is a melancholy and ever-so-slightly depressing drama about the titular sisters and their brother, trapped far from the desired Moscow in a semi-rural backwater of Russia. As the play opens, with their father the General dead a year past, the family's…

Brian Bilbrey February 7, 2016

7 February 2016

I see that I missed y'all last week. No particular reason, at first, I was just busy. But as I broke into the last week, a strong cold hit me like a tonne of bricks, then morphed into the flu. Today was my first properly upright day since Tuesday last. I'm gonna have to talk to the doc about this shizzle at my next physical (a couple of months 0ff). After a good couple of years, I've been running into a bad stretch of health, and I can't figure why. Oh, well. Life goes on, until it doesn't. * *…

Brian Bilbrey January 17, 2016

17 Jan 2016

The hickory gel stain was curing on the yet-to-be-assembled pieces of Marcia's new quilt ladder at the end of last week's cliff hanger episode. (Vendor and product names property of their respective owners, duh!) Here's the rest of the story, in pictures: The glue-up was straighforward. A dollop of glue (Titebond III) in each dowel socket, a bit of assembly, and a bunch of clamps. After thinking about it for a bit, I decided to back up the glue with a #6 x 1-5/8" finish trim screw through the rail into the end of each dowel. Some fastening is good,…

Brian Bilbrey January 10, 2016

10 Jan 2016

A full work week to start the new year, and things are going well. I've lots on my plate, which is a good thing. Interesting new projects combine with ongoing operations to make my working days exactly as I like them. * * * On the home front, I've been working on building Marcia a quilt ladder, which she's been wanting for years now. I'm fabricating it out of shop scraps and 1-1/8" dowels. Here's the fit assembly, before I started on the finishing: All of the material is pine, so after the fit assembly looked fine, I took it…