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Brian Bilbrey March 24, 2019

24 March 2019

My friend Mark Camack died this last week, after a battle with throat cancer. We've been in the exchange holiday cards / biannual phone call place for the last couple of decades, but I'd still have jumped up and headed out if he needed help. I didn't hear about this until his wife Bonnie got in touch, the other day. My heart goes out to Bonnie and their extended families. Rest in peace, my friend. The big news is that I migrated all of the personal sites I manage from an old server to a new server. Not super-exciting from…

Brian Bilbrey February 17, 2019

17 February 2019

Yet utterly unlike a sheep. Last Sunday, we were out at Cabaret Night at Annapolis Shakespeare. It was song and dance and showtunes from the 50's, and the joint was rockin'! So much fun I forgot to post. And as I remembered, each ensuing day, well, I was at work, not relaxing at home, so I kicked the can down the road and here we are. The cabaret was wonderful, as always. Up next at the theater, another Cabaret Night, 60's this time, and then it's time for Pride and Predjudice to open (runs for 6 weeks starting on March…

Brian Bilbrey January 13, 2019

13 January 2019

Yup, our first major winter storm arrived yesterday late afternoon. We've so far got over 10" here in my back yard. I shoveled the driveway and sidewalks just after 4 PM, when a mere 6.5 inches had fallen. By the time was done, I went back over the whole thing to quickly remove the next inch of snow that had fallen while I was shoveling. Yay? Oh, yeah. The snow was supposed to be done by now ... but it's still falling. That explains the schools pre-announcing tomorrow's closure. The Feds? Who knows, all of the OPM people who communicate…

Brian Bilbrey January 6, 2019

6 January 2019

Of the new year, anyway. Not much of external interest happened in the last week - work was work, I got some chores done over the weekend, including the first coffee roasting of the new year. We'd been drinking from a couple of different batches of Rise Up coffee for a while, courtesy of a Christmas gift from the St. Germain's. But that's now running low, so it was time to get a pound of Sweet Maria's Ethiopian roasted and resting in anticipation of Wednesday or Thursday brewing. I am finally down to reading the wonderful Fran Wilde's Horizon, the…

Brian Bilbrey December 30, 2018

30 December 2018

We enjoyed a quiet Christmas at home, mostly binge-watching The Great British Baking Show. In the evening, we watched the Springsteen Broadway special. The dog got a couple of new toys, as did I. Marcia was surprised to get a couple of things, too, since we'd already got her "Christmas presents" a couple of months ago. With Christmas gone and New Year's Eve tomorrow, another year's gone by, and each goes faster than the one preceding. But here at Hovel Bilbrey, we're continuing to do okay. The big changes of the year involved first ramping up our involvement with the…