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Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2018

9 September 2018

We've been home from Maine for about 30 hours. It's been raining for approximately 36 of those hours. And I'm having fun with the french drains leading to the sump pump. I think one is mostly blocked ... AND I've got some grading issues along that side of the house. Sigh. Today I back-filled and improved some of the grading. I also extended a couple of gutter drains a lot further away from the house. Hope it helps while I figure out what the next move is. After all, there's rain in the forecast here for each of the next…

Brian Bilbrey August 26, 2018

26 August 2018

Well. By this time next week, we'll be two thirds of the way through the year. Whew! While it's been a relatively cool summer for us, there have been plenty of storms with lots of flash and bang. Not really Lexi's favorite. Last weekend, she came down to the basement and barked at me until I let her sit in my lap while the storm boomed outside and the coffee was roasting inside: Speaking of Lexi, she's got a couple of growths on her gums. We spotted one of them while prying her mouth open to put in a few…

Brian Bilbrey April 1, 2018

1 April 2018

I don't have anything particularly amusing going on just now that is pertinent to April Fool's Day, but there's always an RFC, so here's one of two from this very day: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode. If those terms aren't in your weekly vocabulary, then you're probably not going to find much distressingly funny about the other end of the link, but I had a chuckle or two. We had a lovely week, with my niece Alex joining us for much of it. She got some quality museum time in, and saw some friends from elsewhere. She also joined us…

Brian Bilbrey December 31, 2017

31 December 2017

And that's a wrap on 2017. We're doing okay, I guess. I'd like to see a little more sanity coming from the government, but that's as it may be. We vote, and support candidates that reflect the direction we'd like to see. My favorite things from 2017: Marcia and I celebrated 19 years of marriage! Everything else is gravy. Lexi is having fun with her new Lambchop™ toy: In other news, our high temperature today was brought to us by the numbers 2 and 0. It's supposed to be another week at least before we come back above freezing. Yay?…

Brian Bilbrey October 1, 2017

1 October 2017

"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?" * * * I'll just leave that there, okay? In other news, I just called my oldest best friend (I've known him since I was four) to wish him a happy birthday, which was pleasant and fun. I also left a voice mail for pater and mater, they're probably out painting the town red. Some of our weekend was normal routine - shopping, roasting coffee, washing the car, going to the office to get some hardware maintenance done during off-hours, doing other chores, but... Speaking of painting the town red, we had…