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Brian Bilbrey November 11, 2019

11 November 2019

The women and men who put themselves in harm's way on our behalf get precious little of the respect and care that we should give them each day. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Some things change slowly, some so fast one hardly notices the thing itself as the blur as it goes by. A person I work with is moving on, after a lunatic number of years (by today's standards), and I'm going to miss them a lot. No blur here, but a lot of individual moments that together are a big part of the most…

Brian Bilbrey November 3, 2019

3 November 2019

I was four paragraphs into the first pass on this post when I managed to hit a stupid combination of keys on the Apple keyboard and moved backwards three links. Whoops, I thought, and went looking for the auto-saved draft. Um, not there? Sigh. Okay, take two - I wonder how much this iteration is going to vary from the last? Fall is finally, properly, here. Six weeks in, and we finally got two consecutive nights below freezing. We're due for another frost tonight before it warms up just a shade. Also, for the first time, the snow icon made…

Brian Bilbrey October 27, 2019

27 October 2019

I missed y'all last weekend because I was at Capclave 2019. This year's Guests of Honor were Robert Sawyer and Martha Wells. They're both authors whose work I love a lot, and I enjoyed hearing from them both in multiple panels. The three day weekend was full of author interviews and readings, celebrations and analysis of much loved works, and much on the minutiae of the SFF writing, editing, and publishing biz. My two favorite things were these: the panel for 25 Years of Babylon 5, and seeing all the wonderful folks I get to spend a few days with…

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2019

9 September 2019

Our friend Michael Lindsay, husband to Linda Rose Payne, father to Dylan and Kiera, died on August 31, 2019. He was a talented voice actor, and a seriously funny and fun dude, even when in massive pain, which he was, a lot. I'm gonna miss him. Yes, again. With some lovely weather, visits with usually distant family members, and some moderately successful fishing. We ended up with 6 or 7 bass between us, all weighed less than two pounds, all released back into the lake after getting weighed and measured. Eleven hours on the drive up (traffic problems), ten hours…

Brian Bilbrey August 7, 2019

7 August 2019

I'm feeling a bit broken, with the shootings of recent days, and the inflammatory rhetoric of the GOP and their Beloved Leader. Sorry. The garden is two thirds dead. No peppers. No zucchini. But the tomatoes, they are in full production. We had salsa this weekend, and I'm going to make more tomorrow night, since Marcia pulled out a bushel of red fruit today. I did manage to find time to roast some coffee the other night. Here I'm pre-heating the roaster before doing the actual deed... We're drinking that coffee, and it is super tasty. I've got a new…