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Brian Bilbrey January 3, 2016

3 Jan 2016

Happy New Year, y'all! I've spent the last two weeks holidaying, eating, reading, relaxing, doing chores, and fixing things around the house. Tomorrow, I go back to work. Grumble. Not really grumble. I enjoy my work. I appreciate and respect the team of people I work with. Especially, I love to stay busy. I have specific goals for the next two weeks - a lot of stuff to accomplish and document in a relatively short amount of time, so I'll be very busy indeed. That makes me happy. In the woodshop over the last few days, I've been working on…

Brian Bilbrey December 27, 2015

27 Dec 2015

Another busy weekend gone by. I was doing some clean up in the shop, and came across a stack of 2x2 acoustic tile matching the small section of drop ceiling in the basement kitchen. Wonderful - I have a few of those that need replacing. A couple of them had holes in them, not hard to replace. Another one, though, was severely bowed by the HVAC vent attached to a floating, insulated feeder. The additional weight had bent the tile nearly an inch out of true. Were I to just replace it, the tile would be good for a year…

Brian Bilbrey December 13, 2015

13 Dec 2015 - Wonderful

It's a Wonderful Life - staged as a 40's radio play - was presented in properly wonderful fashion by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company for our amusement this afternoon. We decided to hit the matinee instead of an evening performance because, frankly, I'm still recovering a bit from last weekend's fun. But I'm at 90%, and took great joy in ASC's 110% performance this afternoon. George Bailey's story is one that many people know from the marvelous 1946 movie with Jimmy Stewart. I loved this live production directed by Jay Brock, which featured Kevin Alan, Sally Boyett, Nick DePinto, Rob McQuay,…

Brian Bilbrey December 6, 2015

2015 Dec 6

Sigh. Something I ate last night seriously disagreed with me. Up at 0100 with ... okay, no details. But since noon today, I've had a few saltines, a couple of fruit cups, and two glasses of water. As the rest of me started feeling just that little bit better ... the lack-of-caffeine headache kicked in. I'm not going to try to solve that until tomorrow morning (I'm taking tomorrow off). * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey November 29, 2015

2015 Nov 29

LISA 15 Report The LISA 2015 conference was held this year at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, off Connecticut Avenue in north east DC. It's 15 miles from home, but the best driving time I had was Wednesday (Veteran's Day) morning, which took half an hour, and the worst was a bit over 1.5 hours, coming home in weeknight traffic, in the rain. It's a nice venue, though I've never stayed there, only attended events. Saturday night was badge pickup and opening reception. I attended that mostly to do a handoff of the give-away items for the LOPSA general business…