Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey April 1, 2012

Spring Semester Fini!

Yay! I wrote and submitted my last 11 pages of work for the Principles of Software Engineering class yesterday, so I'm done and waiting on the 'A'. Today, to celebrate a few weeks of freedom from school, I shopped, cleaned the coffee roaster, did yard work, roasted coffee, cooked, and cooked some more. Sore and tired now, but still happy. And of course, we won something on Friday. Nothing close to a half billion dollars, though. * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Capt. Aaron D. Istre, 37, of Vinton, Louisiana, died…

Brian Bilbrey March 25, 2012

Good news, bad news

The good news is twofold. First, my penultimate deliverable for the Software Engineering class is in the hopper - two sections (about 11 pages) of an SDMP document. One more week of reading and writing puts that class to bed. Second, it looks like my effort to finally purchase materials and get the cold frame built (see yesterday's post) is going to pay off: we're likely to see frosts Monday and Tuesday nights. With luck what I built protects what I'm growing. Third (yes, third, this is a bonus good thing, for some definition of good), I've got a week-long…

Brian Bilbrey March 18, 2012

Team Project DONE; Now, Lasers!

I've been working like mad on a team project for my CMIS330 class, it's due tonight, and happily, I think it's done! I've got it out for review to the team members right now, and hell or high water I'm turning it in at 2100 EDT. It makes me want to build robots with Laser Eyes (thanks to JoCo) and loose them upon the world. * * * Our condolences to the familes, friends and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Jesse J. Grindey, 30, of Hazel Green, Wis., died March 12, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Spc. Daquane D.

Brian Bilbrey March 12, 2012

Argh III

In my introduction conference entry for my CMIS class, I said I hate school group projects. At work it's fine, people are motivated and interested - the mission gets accomplished. My dislike continues to be fueled by the current group project I'm participating in. I posted up template documents, did my part quickly, completely, and early to provide exemplar material to make it easy for my teammates to follow the template ... and we needed everyone to the the first part done by last night. Of the other three folks, only one had anything done. Me == Sad. I've finished…

Brian Bilbrey March 4, 2012

I'll rest when I'm dead

I took off from work a couple of hours early on Friday. At that time, I was still feeling a bit off my feed - this whatever it is that isn't a cold anymore has been kicking my ass. So I "took it easy" this weekend: I slept in past eight both days! Thanks, Lexi!!! After that, though, no rest for the wicked. I put in about 12 hours writing for both classes yesterday. Today: Shopping, washed the car, cleaned the dining room, weeded out the raised beds, and seeded/prepared for snow peas. Then I reviewed the writing I did…