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Brian Bilbrey February 9, 2014

Not very funny

While I've generally been a bit of a class clown, I've never thought of myself as funny. In a way, the snappy comeback and the right quote at the right time have always just been another way of masking my intrinsic discomfort around (other) people. I *can* put on a happy face and make my way through the world. I don't think I'm very good at it, though, so I'm always striving a bit. This whinging is apropos of our on-going spate of social engagements. We went to a cabaret last weekend, neighbors were here for supper the weekend before,…

Brian Bilbrey February 2, 2014

Sportsball: meh ; PSH: sigh.

We had no obligation to watch the sportsball game today, so haven't. I'm given to understand based on brief comments in Twitter that the contest wasn't really a contest, eh? Meh. For y'all? I hope you enjoyed watching the game, if you did. Sometimes the commercials are fun, but it's not enough to bring me to the set. RIP, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Addiction sucks, and it took him from us untimely. For those of us left behind, take this lesson: the disease but sleeps. Be vigilant. This weekend, I got some house cleaning done, and washed all the salt off…

Brian Bilbrey January 19, 2014

Not as much fun...

The second week of the year, sadly, was not so much fun (though overall successful and much more eventful). I flew out to Columbus on business last Sunday night, and concluded the work in time to be home on Tuesday evening. Wednesday morning, I got out of bed and spontaneously "decided" that emptying my stomach was going to be the previously unplanned activity of the day. Although that was a solo event, the aches, fever, and general lack of ability to focus lasted pretty much through yesterday. So I lost a week to Ohio, and to the flu. But all…

Brian Bilbrey January 12, 2014

Back in the Groove

First full week of 2014 put to bed, although I took Tuesday off to ferry Marcia to an appointment. All is well. Chores all weekend, and obligations tonight, so I'm posting a bit early today. I didn't have any more time for Puppet this week, but someone recommended I try ALL of the CM products out there before settling on one. Lovely. I'll just order an "Extra 24 Hours in Each Day" subscription from Amazon. That'll do the trick. Y'all have a good week! * * * DoD has reported no deaths in the last week, which is better than…

Brian Bilbrey January 7, 2014

Pro Puppet, Second Edition, Grumble.

Well. I'm now plowing through Pro Puppet, Second Edition, in a continuing effort to be useful in integrating configuration management into my environments at work and here at home. But the publisher website doesn't have features promised by the book, the publisher website doesn't seem to accept and post the errata I've discovered, and now the Puppet Labs blog post about the book has marked my comment on their post as "Spam". Um, really? Here's the comment I tried to post to the blog: Hint 2 - ALWAYS say what file the code snippet goes into. Very frustrating. Hint 3…