Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey November 10, 2013

Choresday

That's my new name for the `day formerly known as Sunday`. Today was full of shopping, laundry, car washing and paint maintenance, coffee roasting, and computer rebuilding. Only the latter was really interesting. I had a new motherboard/CPU/RAM combo, courtesy of work, to be able to do more VM work here at home. Now the processor is faster and hyperthreaded, and the RAM is faster, and more (32G). I took advantage of the rebuild occasion to remove the old Linux MD device, and installed the ZFSonLinux module and tools. Now my data store is a ZFS raidz1 pool, built from…

Brian Bilbrey October 27, 2013

Winter inbound

We've had frost on the ground the last three days running. It's not been much below freezing, since the hanging baskets and roses on the front porch are all still alive ... but Winter is coming. A productive weekend: remote work and chores ate almost all of it. All standard stuff I've talked about a dozen times. Boring, but productive. Tonight I had a nice chat with my oldest friend (not elderly: but I've known him since I was four). Highlight of the weekend, really. * * * Our condolences to the family, friends, and unit of Lance Cpl. Christopher…

Brian Bilbrey October 20, 2013

Fencing, continued.

Yesterday, I got all of the left side front fencing replaced. Today, I executed the decorative arches on those sections: I set a horizontal string line across the sections, and measured down, sinking a screw at each bottom end of each arch. I then used a quarter-inch thick, 7' long cutoff from a piece of cherry, braced against the screws and pressed upwards in the middle to describe each parabolic arch. A quick swipe with a pencil marked each arch. I cut them with the circular saw, first plunging in the middle, then working along the curve to each end.

Brian Bilbrey October 13, 2013

Downs and Ups

In one sense, it was a really bad week. Hours after I posted last Sunday, I became violently ill, almost certainly due to something I ate. After about 24 hours, I was able to start re-hydrating, and taking in such challenging foods as soda crackers (in small quantities - I had ten crackers, all of Tuesday). Wednesday was slightly better, and that night I slept through the night. So I went to my one day of work on Thursday, and got enough done. The upside of the week was Capclave, which I attended on Friday and Saturday. It was going…

Brian Bilbrey October 6, 2013

Fall II = Summer?

Hmmm. Six plus hours working in the yard yesterday, and nearly broken as a result. Why? It was nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit out. I was slamming the H2O and got through it. The garden beds are cleared, turned and mulched with leaves harvested from the front yard: After that was done, I mowed both front and back. Today I got the shopping done, then roasted coffee and cut my hair, and wrapped the day's chores by washing the car. That'll bring rain. I should probably wash the car more often if it does, since we've had only about 3/4" or…