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Brian Bilbrey June 24, 2018

24 June 2018

We're back! We had a two week vacation! Destinations: three days in Ithaca (NY), a drive-by for Ticonderoga (NY), three days in Stowe (VT), and a week in Winthrop (ME) at Cobbosseecontee Lake. We managed some hikes in Ithaca, along with visits to the gardens and arboretum at Cornell. On the drive to Stowe, we stopped in Ticonderoga, and beamed up to the Enterprise for a quick visit: The Star Trek Original Series Set Tour is great fun. Licensed by CBS, the team at TOS Set Tour have put together most of the sets you saw through three seasons of…

Brian Bilbrey April 22, 2018

22 April 2018

Well. That was one of the longest breaks I've had in posting since I started 18 years and change ago. Reasonable reason: We went out to California to visit family. Other than puttering about working on Python a bit here and there, I was offline most of the time. A very relaxing trip, but hard to jump back into the groove. We got back near midnight Wednesday. Thursday was shopping, picking up the dog from the boarding kennel, and (apparently) sleeping much of the rest of the day (but a couple of hours patching systems remotely in the mid-evening hours).

Brian Bilbrey June 11, 2017

11 June 2017

A week in Maine We had a nice week in Maine - two 10+ hour driving days, two sunny days, and a fair bit of Seattle-influenced weather. But a relaxing, wonderful trip. A few small fish caught - all sent back to eat healthy and grow bigger. Pictured above is the camp (the word for house on a lake, in Maine) we were staying at. No, you can't build that close to the water anymore. Yes, we did bring Lexi with us. And yes, there were more than a trillion mosquitoes around, just lurking around the camp waiting to feed…

Brian Bilbrey October 10, 2016

10 Oct 2016

A day late, but a full weekend nearly behind me, so that's a good thing. Not much on the exercise front last week though, sad to report. I had a wonderful time at Capclave this year. Y'all may recall that I missed last year entirely due to food poisoning. This year I met new authors, discovered new works, and really enjoyed myself. The Guests of Honor were Sara Beth Durst and Tim Powers - talented writers both, expressive about their craft and the passion they have for their books. Lovely, lovely weekend. And as we were asked in at least…

Brian Bilbrey September 4, 2016

04 September 2016

Happy Birthday, Pete! * * * It's been a fun week. It was a three day work week for me - I took off Thursday and Friday to burn some hours and make a five day weekend happen. I got some chores done. We went fishing (and Marcia caught a small-ish big mouth bass that we gave back to the lake): And on a long walk around the neighborhood, Lexi was perplexed: The Fitbit says I did five days of exercise, although I only did three dedicated exercise days, truth be told. But the work counts. Sadly, so do the…