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Brian Bilbrey February 19, 2021

19 February 2021

Yep, we have ice and snow, but not anything like those folks that Ted Cruz abandoned when he went to vacation in Cancun. For one thing, after just a couple of days, we're supposed to go above freezing for several hours today. Yesterday's snow was a disappointment - we got a third of an inch of ice, instead of 4-6 inches of snow. None of that stops folks around here from getting out in their cars and spinning about on the roadways, crunching into one another. Lexi usually goes upstairs to bed when we sit down to play a board…

Brian Bilbrey January 31, 2021

31 January 2021

I'm counting from 20 January, with a tiny bit of hope in my heart. We've been staying busy, but some stuff has been going on. The dog dish holder was a four day project. The actual cutting and assembly was a matter of a couple of hours. All the rest was staining, and coats of polyurethane, with drying and light sanding at intervals. It's much nicer looking than the old one, and a couple of inches lower, which is good for a little dog. This is a two-to-three hour job, as I first do my normal inside-the-roaster cleaning that happens…

Brian Bilbrey November 19, 2020

19 November 2020

The shoe that hasn't dropped, yet. Is he just being a narcissistic asshole, or is he clawing at every possibility he can envision before becoming a private citizen again, and subject to the consequences and suits and indictments that are headed his way? Don't get me wrong, I'm super pleased that Biden has won. I'm super disappointed that so many, many people still voted for the incumbent, and that's going to be a deal for a long time. So yeah, I'm still on edge, and that's even without pandemic 2.0, and the idiots who STILL won't wear masks or stay…

Brian Bilbrey October 25, 2020

25 October 2020

I don't ask for a lot here, but I have one request to make of y'all - VOTE! Democracy requires citizen participation: VOTE! OFFS, just get out there and VOTE! It's probably too late for absentee/mail-in ballots, which is how Marcia and I have exercised our civic duty. But there's early voting almost everywhere. Don't sit home, don't sit this out. VOTE! Unless, of course, you're offended when I ask that if you plan on voting for the incumbent, just keep your ass on the BarcaLounger (tm) at home, in front of Fox and Friends. But even if you're in…

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…