Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey August 26, 2012

Rainy Day

A rainy day here in Bowie, Maryland. Not continuous, but some impressive downpours in the course of dropping half an inch of rain. Still, better than what's facing the Korean Peninsula this week. I read elsewhere that they're likely to get well upwards of 20 inches of rain from this storm that's 1,200 miles across... Wow! In other news, everyone here at the Hovel is happy that Marcia's back home, after she spent a week in Michigan visiting with relatives and attending the AQS show in Grand Rapids. I picked her up at BWI last night, and Lexi was dancing…

Brian Bilbrey August 19, 2012

Winding Down Summer

Today I pulled another batch of tomatoes out of the garden. How many? A gallon of salsa, and another lobster pot of red sauce, that's how many. I also dug up all the rest of the potatoes, about 30# worth. Today started with the shopping, then I was mowing from 1030 to 1200, and then gardening and cooking until 1930 - a full day's work. The garden is pretty sad, in truth. Between school and spending two weeks partially under the weather, the garden truly hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. The worst sin: Tomatoes have gone bad on the…

Brian Bilbrey August 12, 2012

Day Six

According to the historical records, this is in fact the 7th day. But in this much more specific and present-tense circumstance, this is the sixth day of my summer cold. It was never really a sinus thing, it seems to have skipped from throat straight to ears with only a by-your-leave to the nasal passages. My left ear was pretty plugged for a couple of days, and while that seems to have slightly abated, some of the pressure and all of the ringing is still in the hizzouse. The quality of my focus is suffering, too. I actually took a…

Brian Bilbrey August 5, 2012

August Already?

Time flies. I'm "in between" classes, so I'm just reading ahead for the first class of the Fall session, which starts on August 20. This weekend, I got some work done replacing broken shelving in Marcia's fabric room, cleaned up and fixed up a couple of things in the woodshop, harvested a metric big volume of veggies (mostly tomatoes), made more salsa, made some chili, and... oh, yeah, worked at the office for a few hours yesterday. I've got gear that's making me very, very angry (as nearly everyone's favorite Martian has been known to exclaim). * * * Our…

Brian Bilbrey July 29, 2012

Getting Things Done

But not GTD in the larger sense. But getting things done, lower case: I shaved the lawns yesterday, front and back. I did a bit of weeding in the garden, also. And today, I find that for the second summer session class, I ended up 1 point shy of an ace, out of 500. Yes, absolutely where I should have been for a class on UNIX and shell scripting. But now just two classes to go! Huzzah! * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Brandon R. Pepper, 31, of York,…