Marcia ⁽⁷⁴⁾

Brian Bilbrey August 11, 2013

1400 miles later ...

Saturday last we departed for the big vacation of the summer, and spent a week in Saugatuck, Michigan, with family from Marcia's side of the tree. Good times, picnic with grand-nieces and -nephews, etc. Oh, yeah, and three days of fishing. We did some shore fishing on Kalamazoo Lake, and managed a couple of dozen fish between us - all catch and release. Here's one of the carp that Marcia reeled in: The drive was 700 miles each way, taking about 10 hours and change on each of the Saturdays. Overall, we got 34.8 MPG out of the 328i for…

Brian Bilbrey May 31, 2013

15 years; Table done

Those are unrelated topics, as the semicolon indicates. First (as my lovely Marcia points out), I neglected to point out to all and sundry that we celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary yesterday. We went out to Sly Horse Tavern for supper, to celebrate. It's good to be happy, eh? * * * Table done: I brought the table bits halfway up, and setup on the lawn, to show how pretty this is in full light. Then I hauled it back inside and upstairs, and properly attached the top to the apron. I'm nearly 80% done with this project. I've got…

Brian Bilbrey March 10, 2013

Many Things Accomplished

Our New Quilt of Many Colours But first, look at the lovely quilt that my lovely Marcia made for our California king. The colors and design are gorgeous (and they pick up some of the colors in the painting over the bed). Awesome! * * * I managed to get three coats of finish on the shelves over the two days. I patched some work systems remotely, and tested them once rebooted. I roasted coffee, went shopping, and gave myself a haircut. I walked the dog a few times. And Congress stole an hour of sleep from me, and the…

Brian Bilbrey March 2, 2013

Musical ... well, everything.

I'd say "musical chairs", but a lot more than chairs are involved. Marcia's got some quilting work coming up that is approximately a billion times easier (using Top Gear maths, there) if she is able to use all the power of her fully operational Death Quilter. Errr, or something like that. But the only place we can do the full build out of her quilting frame is the library, because the other choices are someone's woodshop, and the living room. So, here's what the library looked like at 10:30 this morning. The blue chairs, the occasional table, and the bookcase…

Brian Bilbrey November 18, 2012

Marcia's back (again) & Linux reloaded

Today, I relaxed a bit. Shopping in the morning, a bit of Top Gear UK during the day, and I picked Marcia up at BWI around 1500 EST. Happy dog is happy, and so am I. The holiday bird is in the fridge, I've got a tray of mac-n-cheese ready, and ... we'll see how the table ends up. Tonight, I blew out the FreeNAS installation, and installed Scientific Linux 6.3 x64 on the box still known as Serenity. I had a lot of trouble getting things working right, and there are issues with offsite backups that are much more…