Family (23)

Brian Bilbrey

Counting down...

Twelve weeks of instruction left to my collegiate days. Sunday evening was full of final composition and review for a couple of things due ... and I flat forgot my duty. But here I am! Before I proceed, however, I'd like to point you in the direction of Marcia's new (old) site: Marcia's Makings. She's been making lots of wonderful things, and just knows that you need to buy them for holiday gifts, or to keep yourself warm as Fall arrives... So visit * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Chief Warrant…

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Brian Bilbrey

Happy Thanksgiving

For those that celebrated the holiday, or for those that just like to give thanks, and belatedly, Happy Thanksgiving! We had a quiet week at home. We were both off work for the whole week. I gave a fair bit of time to school work, and a few hours to Skyrim. Marcia quilted and ripped and quilted. We did a big bird for the day itself: 23 pounds. We've now got a pot full of yummy turkey soup, a week's worth of turkey tetrazzini, and more meat left. So, a good week overall. We hope that everyone else enjoyed theirs, as…

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Brian Bilbrey

Triskaidekaphobia

Not really. But it is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Marcia and I were married in Sunnyvale back in '98, and we're pleased to have surprised almost everyone with the longevity of our second date, errr, marriage. My present to her this year was to wake her up and tell her that she could go ahead and get the Handi Quilter HQ24 Fusion system with something called ProStitcher (which means that Marcia hands the computer a design, the computer stitches the quilt). It doesn't even sparkle and I got her to cry. Yeah, it's a few years earlier than we originally…

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