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Brian Bilbrey December 21, 2015

21 Dec 2015

A day late, and a vacation dollar short. Yep, vacation. I'm "off work" for the next two weeks, which means that I only keep an eye on email, and respond if SMS messages flow my way. But for the purposes of day-to-day operations, I'm offline. Yay! * * * In other good news, no vomiting in more than a week, so I've got that going for me. * * * Please note that policy requires the new disclaimer in the footer of this site. So noted. * * * The weekend flew by with assorted home-maintenance chores. They were mostly…

Brian Bilbrey December 15, 2015

15 Dec 2015

Life is, by some definitions, a process of learning new things. The wonderful new thing I learned Sunday night is that my food-borne GI problems from the weekend before were not, in fact, caused by food from the new restaurant we tried that last Saturday evening. Instead, my homemade chili, that I've been eating from off and on over the last two weeks, was to blame. I can't explain how whatever was in the chili only affected me really badly but twice... in hindsight, I had a couple of intermittently "bad days" in there that weren't at the level of…

Brian Bilbrey December 6, 2015

2015 Dec 6

Sigh. Something I ate last night seriously disagreed with me. Up at 0100 with ... okay, no details. But since noon today, I've had a few saltines, a couple of fruit cups, and two glasses of water. As the rest of me started feeling just that little bit better ... the lack-of-caffeine headache kicked in. I'm not going to try to solve that until tomorrow morning (I'm taking tomorrow off). * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey November 22, 2015

2015 Nov 22

This last week, we saw a brand new play, Poe, staged at the Reynolds Tavern by the Annapolis Shakespeare Company. An excellent show, good food, and a wonderful evening. How can I tell that a new play is wonderful? It leaves me wanting to know more about the subject, and in awe of the actors plying their trade. The 1747 Pub in the basement of the Reynolds tavern is a great place for the work, too. Only two more nights, this week, so go if you can! We also had Linda and Mike over to supper and a game of…

Brian Bilbrey November 15, 2015

2015 Nov 15

This last week was a blast at LISA 15, the annual USENIX all things system administration conference. I averaged 12 hour days over the 6 day run, so I'm still decompressing a bit. More of a report on that in a day or few. Nothing else of particular importance going on in our part of the world just now. Terrorists killing random innocents for kicks seems to be increasing the world suck factor by a billion elsewhere at the moment, though. That makes me sad. Condolences to those who suffered loss in Paris, Beruit, and everywhere else in the world…