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Brian Bilbrey August 2, 2015

A Princess and her Pea

Lexi, protected from peas There's better be a pea under there... * * * Last night, when all was quiet, I finally got a around to putting together the Metal Earth Dragonfly model that I picked up from Amazon weeks ago on a whim, inspired by Jenny's 1000 Ferris Wheels post. It's good to have a focused distraction from time to time. The work took me away from myself for a double handful of minutes, and reminded me that I can focus when I make the effort. There's been so much going on that I'm spending more time putting out…

Brian Bilbrey July 12, 2015

Midsummer fun

Five Gallons of Veggies That's the big fun: I pulled a five gallon bucket of veggies out of the garden today. But ... that's the only fun. Busy bloody weekend is over, thankfully. Fixed a leaking fridge water feed, which now looks like this: A ball valve and a copper feed pipe is much better than a vampire tap, a needle valve, and a plastic feed line. I got the leak stopped and water back on in the house by about 8:30 Friday evening. The water to the fridge was restored by Saturday mid-morning. Thereafter, yard work on both days.

Brian Bilbrey June 21, 2015

Stormtime

Yes, yes, according to the calendar, it's called Summer. But around here, it's Stormtime. The calendar season of Summer coincides with the combination of heat, humidity and passing fronts that yields lovely, lovely thunderstorms. Well, *I* like them, more or less. Lexi, however... For a while, she just sat there in the corner of the sectional sofa, facing the cushions, and shaking. Finally she yielded and tried to hide behind me (or between me and the cushions). That may have involved trying to excavate a cavity either in a cushion, or through my kidneys. Hmmm. The other less fun thing…

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2015

Breakage, updated...

It turns out I didn't break my Wordpress install. But my home IP address *had* changed, and I have lots of things locked down to specific IP addresses for access. So I've got two of the three sites puzzled out. But one of them appears to have a broken theme directory. I'll be looking into that now... [A few minutes later, after looking at logfiles] Yup - the twentyeleven theme needed fixing on another site - I refreshed the whole thing, and I'll keep a close eye on it in the next short while. I don't remember mucking about in…

Brian Bilbrey April 5, 2015

Pushing harder

First, exercise. I've been pushing a lot harder the last couple of weeks. I'll do 20-30 minutes of alternating stretches and exercise (squats, sit-ups, push-ups), followed by 45+ minutes on the elliptical. My "best" day of the week was yesterday: I managed 60 minutes, 8200 strides, 1000+ calories burned on the machine. I probably pushed too hard - it hurt when I did a normal workout today. But overall, I feel better, and I sleep better. Those are both good things. I skipped a day on Wednesday. The body was demanding a short break, and the UP24 was mis-behaving. Taken…