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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…

Brian Bilbrey January 11, 2021

11 January 2021

Sadly, it's not a case of waiting for the other shoe to drop. Instead, it's shoe after shoe after shoe ... What's up there? A millipede? The news, it is nearly uniformly terrible, so let's take that as read. We're doing okay. I'm baking. Who doesn't need cookies, even in the best of times? They're even better in these times. So I made a double batch. Lexi, the chipuggle rescue mutt, is around 12 years old. Being warm seems to be more of a priority for her these winter days. So, laying on an electric blanket and covered in a…

Brian Bilbrey December 13, 2020

13 December 2020

That said, we've not experienced a significant run of ill luck yet this day, but then neither of us suffer from triskaidekaphobia. We are having intermittent warm and cold stretches, with a possibility of some icy precipitation on Wednesday upcoming - Marcia's looking forward to that. Lexi can do without the heat of summer or the cold of winter, but she does look forward to curling up on the electric blanket in the mid evening on cold nights... Not much else to report yet. I'm waiting to see what happens come Monday. Our condolences to the family and friends of…

Brian Bilbrey October 9, 2020

667

It has been a month or so, but I've been ... busy. Even though we've been healthy, as have our extended families, the coronavirus situation, in juxtaposition with the political environment has made for a stressful time. I wish I were hopeful on all fronts, but I'm going for survivability at the moment. Or an asteroid strike. Decisions, decisions. Why 667? Well, it's the number following the Number of the Beast, and the post that's been sitting on top of the page for the last month was also the post numbered similarly. So it's a bit of a celebration of…

Brian Bilbrey September 7, 2020

7 September 2020

Yeah, it's been a month. I'm dancing as fast as is reasonable in these terrible and weird times. And sometimes I'm building stuff... Sometimes building stuff means building other things first, in order to build the thing desired. Yep, a fixture: Once the fixture was done, I could work on parts: With the fixture to guide the router, I could cut slots into the schedule 40 pipe, in a specific orientation to the 30 degree angles the pipe was cut at. Then I could screw the pipe lengths onto the final product: The slots at the bottom? Just for access…