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Brian Bilbrey February 22, 2015

Shoveling S...

Yesterday we were due for 1-3 inches of snow during the day. Late in the afternoon, I took care of the first four inches of that snowfall. Early this morning I shoveled off the last inch and a half, which was lovingly topped with a freezing rain crust. Weirdly, by 1 PM, I was walking the dog while wearing just a light jacket - temps had ramped up to nearly 40° F. * * * In the afternoon, I painted: What I'm calling the basement foyer is a tiny little space, with a doorway (visible) through to Marcia's sewing areas,…

Brian Bilbrey February 15, 2015

Cold Holiday

It was colder than 6° F when I got up shortly after dawn this morning, with about two inches of snow that was drifted and icy. No real fun driving out for the groceries today, as a result. The temperature had warmed all the way up to 15 by mid-afternoon. According to the NOAA, we're not supposed to see the fun side of the freezing line until next Sunday or later, and we have some snow coming again in the mid-week. So, an utterly normal President's Day weekend, then. * * * Being cute: * * * I managed two…

Brian Bilbrey February 1, 2015

Super?

There's a football game on the tube. We watched the first half, decided that 14-all meant it was a new game... and we weren't starting over again. So. Good luck, Tom and the gang! I will vote on most depressing commercial of the first half, though ... that Nissan commercial with the absentee, almost died several times, race car driver dad. Really? Really?!? Not much progress on the basement this weekend. We're adjusting sleep patterns as pain management changes - that plus several hours of on-site and remote work this weekend left me with enough energy for food shopping, laundry,…

Brian Bilbrey January 25, 2015

Productivity

This weekend marks another transition for Marcia - she's stopped taking the rat poison (Coumadin, aka Warfarin). That also means that she doesn't have to wear the compression stockings anymore, which makes her very happy. She should sleep much better tonight. She's solo'ing up and down the stairs, but not leg-over-leg yet. Progress is. * * * I spent the weekend on two different primary tasks. The first was a bit of patching of Linux production systems late last night and early this morning, during the appropriate maintenance windows for the systems in question. Much of the balance of the…

Brian Bilbrey December 28, 2014

Final Sunday

So endeth the last four day weekend of the year. Well, I am on call, so it was four days of not going to the office, but keeping a reasonably close eye on email... We had a nice Christmas Day - food and relaxation and calling family off and on through the day. Friday was all about the leftovers. I'm going to have to pick up that exercise ball and run with it double-time for a while to make up for that. Saturday, I finished up a couple of small woodworking projects, and today, I finished preparing the first section…