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Brian Bilbrey December 25, 2018

25 December 2018

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, with or without family, with or without larger significance, please let it give you and yours both joy and peace. I had a lovely few days off work. We spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time binge-watching The Great British Baking Show, and to join us in our turkey dinner today, we were joined by a Mister Bruce Springsteen, shown in the production filmed over a couple of nights of his Broadway run. What a lovely show. We leapt out of bed this morning at the crack of 8:41, and once the dog…

Brian Bilbrey December 9, 2018

9 December 2018

Me, I had a busy week and a busy weekend. Our condolences to the family and friends of Sgt. Jason Mitchell McClary, 24, from Export, Pennsylvania, who died on Dec. 2, 2018, in Landstuhl, Germany, as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device on Nov. 27, 2018, in Andar District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Brian Bilbrey December 2, 2018

2 December 2018

This was a productive week, but nothing especially outstanding. We're mostly recovered from Thanksgiving, and getting ready to decorate for the Christmas period. We watched series four of Fake or Fortune, a show that works to establish attribution and provenance of artwork, presented by Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. Great fun, for those who love Brits, European art, and art controversy. I've got a lot of paperwork to do, wrapping up some stuff in advance of year end, both personal and work related, so that's coming up this next week. Nothing else super exciting on the calendar yet. Our condolences…

Brian Bilbrey November 4, 2018

4 November 2018

I'm getting caught up around here, but there's only one important message this week. Vote on Tuesday, 11/06/2018. Please. Help a neighbor vote, give them a ride to the polling place. Remind a friend to vote. Email. Tweet. Call. Post. Whatever. Vote and get out the vote. If you don't vote, you've made an affirmative choice for more of the same. Please vote.

Brian Bilbrey October 22, 2018

22 Octogre 2018

It was Thursdays that Arthur Dent could never get the hang of. For me? Mondays. We slept in Sunday morning, a bit, and it pushed the whole day. Oh, well. Got lots done over the weekend. The last of the parts arrived Friday, and I repaired my snow blower, thus staving of the return of Snowmageddon this winter. While I roasted some SO coffee beans from Burundi, I cleaned up the workshop and gave myself a haircut. I also made a delicious batch of chili with hot italian sausage, ground turkey, fire roasted tomatoes, kidney and black beans, and the…