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Brian Bilbrey June 5, 2016

5 June 2016

On the exercise front: Monday - Holiday. Tuesday - 75 sit-ups, 50 squats, 30 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 5100 strides on the elliptical in 38 minutes. Wednesday - 45 sit-ups, 30 squats, 18 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 6060 strides on the elliptical in 45 minutes. Thursday - 60 sit-ups, 40 squats, 24 push-ups, assorted stretches, and 6130 strides on the elliptical in 45 minutes. Friday - My back was wonky from a new addition to the "assorted stretches", so I took the day off. I didn't even get up to 10K steps (but close-ish at 8900). Saturday and Today -…

Brian Bilbrey March 20, 2016

20 March 2016

It must be Spring. We've been in the 30's all weekend, and it's currently dropping what's quaintly called a "wintery mix" on us from low, leaden skies. Bah! * * * We've lost a lot of the roadside trees in our neighborhood in the last couple of years. The HOA's landscaping service took out a bunch this winter, and replaced them with ... some other kind of tree, I'll guess. They didn't get all of the dead trees yet, and from the tracks on the barkless trunk, you can probably see the reason behind the death: Yup, some kind of…

Brian Bilbrey January 17, 2016

17 Jan 2016

The hickory gel stain was curing on the yet-to-be-assembled pieces of Marcia's new quilt ladder at the end of last week's cliff hanger episode. (Vendor and product names property of their respective owners, duh!) Here's the rest of the story, in pictures: The glue-up was straighforward. A dollop of glue (Titebond III) in each dowel socket, a bit of assembly, and a bunch of clamps. After thinking about it for a bit, I decided to back up the glue with a #6 x 1-5/8" finish trim screw through the rail into the end of each dowel. Some fastening is good,…

Brian Bilbrey January 10, 2016

10 Jan 2016

A full work week to start the new year, and things are going well. I've lots on my plate, which is a good thing. Interesting new projects combine with ongoing operations to make my working days exactly as I like them. * * * On the home front, I've been working on building Marcia a quilt ladder, which she's been wanting for years now. I'm fabricating it out of shop scraps and 1-1/8" dowels. Here's the fit assembly, before I started on the finishing: All of the material is pine, so after the fit assembly looked fine, I took it…

Brian Bilbrey January 3, 2016

3 Jan 2016

Happy New Year, y'all! I've spent the last two weeks holidaying, eating, reading, relaxing, doing chores, and fixing things around the house. Tomorrow, I go back to work. Grumble. Not really grumble. I enjoy my work. I appreciate and respect the team of people I work with. Especially, I love to stay busy. I have specific goals for the next two weeks - a lot of stuff to accomplish and document in a relatively short amount of time, so I'll be very busy indeed. That makes me happy. In the woodshop over the last few days, I've been working on…