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Brian Bilbrey November 11, 2021

11 November 2021

Today we take a break in our busy lives to give thought and honor to those who have served in our country's military. Thank you all! I'm long enough in the tooth to have known members of our family who served in both World Wars, in Korea, in Vietnam, and on military and humanitarian missions around the world. We will remember your service and your sacrifices on behalf of our country. Yes, we're missing Lexi quite a lot. Thank y'all for the kind comments. We were really hoping she'd be here with us for this otherwise exciting (and tiring) time...

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2021

23 September 2021

Nor am I likely to be, soon. It has been a long hiatus, and yes, there's been a service outage here. I managed to fix it for my site, but both of Marcia's are still incommunicado, and it's very confusing as to why that is the case. Weirdly, the logging isn't providing nearly what I expect to see, so I can't tell why things aren't working. Are the logs just being buffered because computers hate me? Maybe that's it. There's big news in the offing, but the time is not yet ripe. Bear with us for a while longer. Recent…

Brian Bilbrey August 1, 2021

1 Aug 2021

Yes, yes. Everyone's been busy, not just me. There are a couple of items of interest, but let's start with the pretty one: A sunrise on Cobbosseecontee Lake in Maine. We went up for two weeks in mid-July. The drive each way was terrible - best part of 12 hours in both directions. North, we could never figure out why there was a horrendous backup from Massachusetts all the way up into Maine. The twelve miles of New Hampshire on route 95 alone took nearly 45 minutes. Whoo! But we had a lovely time, motored around the lake aboard Nancy's…

Brian Bilbrey May 23, 2021

23 May 2021

Well, it's been nearly two months since we last chatted, sorry for the inconvenience (as the Creator said to his Creation (in the fifth (I think) book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy)). A fair bit has happened in the interim. I have four ladders. This is a story about the fourth ladder. A couple of weeks ago, I was putting some items up in the garage attic. Two or three trips up and down the ladder. All done, I came down the ladder and it failed on me as I reached the third step. The wood broke…