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Brian Bilbrey February 5, 2020

5 February 2020

So, we've had a week that was somewhere between t-shirt and sweatshirt weather. Very weird for late January into early February. This is normally the core of snow season here just south of the Mason-Dixon line. But we've only been graced with a pittance of the white fluffy stuff so far this year. Upside - no shoveling yet. Downside - I might have to start doing outside spring work much, much earlier than I expected. I've been reading ... mostly Clarkesworld Magazine, and Neil's related project, Forever Magazine. (Yes, yes ... not HTTPS, I have to get on Neil's case…

Brian Bilbrey November 24, 2019

24 November 2019

After shopping and cleaning house today, we had wonderful home-made pizza AND watched Chicken Run. Now, instead of being able to concentrate on the world-shaking revelations that were to appear in this space, all I can do is type sentences that run on and on without any appearance of termination in sight, if indeed such sentences as typed could be said to have visual acuity of any sort at all. Nearly every damn political story I read. Disturbing. Politest word I can think of in the circumstances. I've got nothing else to say on the subject at this time. Warren.

Brian Bilbrey November 11, 2019

11 November 2019

The women and men who put themselves in harm's way on our behalf get precious little of the respect and care that we should give them each day. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Some things change slowly, some so fast one hardly notices the thing itself as the blur as it goes by. A person I work with is moving on, after a lunatic number of years (by today's standards), and I'm going to miss them a lot. No blur here, but a lot of individual moments that together are a big part of the most…

Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2019

3 November 2019

I was four paragraphs into the first pass on this post when I managed to hit a stupid combination of keys on the Apple keyboard and moved backwards three links. Whoops, I thought, and went looking for the auto-saved draft. Um, not there? Sigh. Okay, take two - I wonder how much this iteration is going to vary from the last? Fall is finally, properly, here. Six weeks in, and we finally got two consecutive nights below freezing. We're due for another frost tonight before it warms up just a shade. Also, for the first time, the snow icon made…

Brian Bilbrey September 22, 2019

22 September 2019

According to the calendar, tomorrow is Fall. According to the forecast, Summer looks to be in an extended run. We did have two nights last week drop into the high 40's overnight - but highs for the next 10 days are supposed to be in the mid- to high 80's. So, summer, still. Unless, y'know, the forecasters are wrong. That would be so unusual! So, yeah ... no post last week. I've got no explanation but sheer laziness. This weekend was a bit more of the same. We did make it out fishing at Cash Lake yesterday morning for a…