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Brian Bilbrey November 11, 2018

11 November 2018

Thank you for your service. All of you! What with the northern half of the planet angling further away from the closest star, the light is weaker, and the cold is stronger. Tonight will be our second consecutive night in the mid-20's. Even so, the dog finds a way to lay in the sun... That said, she's battling fairly severe arthritis, primarily in her left rear hip and knee. Poor pupper. We're at about 50% over normal rainfall for the year, with more still to come. I've simply got to get out and do some remedial grading along the side…

Brian Bilbrey October 17, 2018

17 Octogre 2018

Y'all: VOTE! Where registration is still open, do that. Then vote! Where registration is closed, many states offer on-site registration in concert with early voting, so check it out, carve out some time, and do that. Failing everything else, if you're unregistered, at least find out where your correct voting location is, and totter down there with ID and do a provisional ballot. Important to be at the right polling place, though. I haven't forgotten, I've just been busy. Especially Sunday, which had an evening full of song and a bit of dance at Cabaret Night at the Annapolis Shakespeare…

Brian Bilbrey September 30, 2018

30 September 2018

This has been a busy, busy weekend. Two words: Capclave, Theatre. First up: Capclave. This is a lovely small literary SF/F/H/etc. conference run and sponsored by the WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association). They're a wonderful, motivated, well-organized group who've been putting on Capclave annually for a long time - Hat's off to the team and organizers! The Guests of Honor (usually GoH) this year were Alyssa Wong and Nancy Kress. I was, frankly, embarrassed to know not very much about the work of either, for very different reasons. Alyssa writes superb, award-winning short stories, most of which may be considered…

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2018

23 September 2018

More rain. Seriously. And we live close enough to DC that the rain-hole that exists there shadows us a bit - we got just a bit over half of the 22 inches that BWI got in the same time span, and that's less than 30 minutes drive. We're at 15 inches in the last two months. That's four month's worth of annualized rainfall. And I'm tired of it. Oh, yeah... the app on the phone says each one of the next 24 hours has rain due, better than 50% chance. I count Fall as officially started on the first night…

Brian Bilbrey September 10, 2018

10 September 2018

Lexi stays in bed I think this dog either... Doesn't want to get out of bed. Is hoping that being well hidden will keep her from surgery tomorrow. All of the above.