Beware of Leopard (255)

Brian Bilbrey

26 March 2018

Busy week and weekend past. The week brought us our heaviest snow of the season, on the first day of Spring. Here's a shot from my drive home last Wednesday, midday: Much of the weekend went to house cleaning and associated chores - we have a house guest arriving shortly. I also roasted some more of the Guatemala Pico Mayor Gesha from Sweet Maria's. Lovely stuff, and it wouldn't do to run out because I'll be brewing more than usual, perhaps. I also did some more glue-ups on the new jig I built last weekend: We march in spirit with…

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Brian Bilbrey

22 October 2017

Work. Chores. A bit of Barrett-Jackson from Las Vegas. And there goes the week and the weekend. Seriously. The cars are clean, the lawn is mowed, the coffee is roasted, the roaster is clean, now, too, and most of the work has gone well. But with patching, there was a lot of that to go around. There are only four more chances for you to see Much Ado About Nothing at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company, though, so get your ass over there and show them some love. * * * DoD reported no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

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Brian Bilbrey

4 September 2017

Hullo. Happity Labor Day, for US visitors. Happy first post in the final one third (not "two thirds"... sigh) of the year, for everyone else. Hurray for a three day weekend. I've celebrated by not checking email at all (for work), which means several hundred emails, mostly system generated, tomorrow. Oh, well. Not much else to report - we went out fishing for a bit, but catching wasn't on the menu. Otherwise a lovely weekend. * * * Our condolences to the family and friends of Staff Sgt. Emil Rivera-Lopez, who was declared deceased on Aug. 31 as a result…

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Brian Bilbrey

29 August 2017

Whoops. A call from a family member was required to help me notice I've not posted properly here. Argh! I had a busy work week last week, then a bunch of yardwork on Saturday, leading to a very, very lazy Sunday with an early-to-bed addendum tacked on. Yay? But no post. Work is full of virtualization and SAN work and preparing for an upgrade cycle. Home is yard work and getting ready for a Fall fishing season (it's too bloody hot here in the Summer, even in a relatively cool summer like this one). Lexi and Marcia are both well.

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