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Brian Bilbrey May 31, 2015

Vacation Over

So... the big deal is that we were in California for purposes of vacation and only vacation - 15 days worth. We visited family in the SF Bay Area, in San Diego, and near Sacramento. We visited friends in Saratoga (SF South Bay) and Dillon Beach (North coastal Marin). What a wonderful, wonderful trip. Oh, oh - AND I got to make it to Maker Faire Bay Area 10th Anniversary. That was fun and awesome, too. I could give you the full rundown on the trip, but it's a lot like inviting you over and showing you slides, so I…

Brian Bilbrey February 8, 2015

The Continuing Saga

I was back in the basement this weekend. Yesterday, I finished up the flooring install. There were a few long runs left, and some fiddly bits around doorways, cabinets, etc. that I had left until the end. All done, and caulked in the two doorways that won't have a transition jam. This morning, after shopping, I went out to get some of the materials needed for the next round of work. Primer, painters caulk, high gloss white for the trim, etc. While I was there, I looked at the shoe moulding. The closest I could find to what I wanted…

Brian Bilbrey January 25, 2015

Productivity

This weekend marks another transition for Marcia - she's stopped taking the rat poison (Coumadin, aka Warfarin). That also means that she doesn't have to wear the compression stockings anymore, which makes her very happy. She should sleep much better tonight. She's solo'ing up and down the stairs, but not leg-over-leg yet. Progress is. * * * I spent the weekend on two different primary tasks. The first was a bit of patching of Linux production systems late last night and early this morning, during the appropriate maintenance windows for the systems in question. Much of the balance of the…

Brian Bilbrey January 18, 2015

Rainy Days and Sundays

Well, they don't get me down, but when it's rain drops with little ice spears embedded in each one, it's not a pleasant thing to be walking in (or loading the groceries into the car during, for one executed example). We had about 2cm of rain today - at peak, the sump pump was running every two minutes. Today was productive on the home front: Shopping, Laundry, cleaned up my office. I also opened up Serenity, the home server, and replaced the back panel fan with one that has manual speed settings, so that I can knock down some of…

Brian Bilbrey January 12, 2015

Wotcher, World

Well, I *intended* to put up at least a brief post last night, but the world conspired against me. Or Jack Frost did. Hard to tell, really. Marcia is doing well. Her surgery last Monday went off without a hitch, and she's plowing through her Physical Therapy goals without hardly blinking an eye. Of course, when she plows through those goals, she reaches points of real pain pretty quickly. That's what the pain meds are for - to control things while she does the necessary work. Speaking of work, other than a couple of hours worth of email, I haven't…