The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2021

23 September 2021

Nor am I likely to be, soon. It has been a long hiatus, and yes, there's been a service outage here. I managed to fix it for my site, but both of Marcia's are still incommunicado, and it's very confusing as to why that is the case. Weirdly, the logging isn't providing nearly what I expect to see, so I can't tell why things aren't working. Are the logs just being buffered because computers hate me? Maybe that's it. There's big news in the offing, but the time is not yet ripe. Bear with us for a while longer. Recent…

Brian Bilbrey August 1, 2021

1 Aug 2021

Yes, yes. Everyone's been busy, not just me. There are a couple of items of interest, but let's start with the pretty one: A sunrise on Cobbosseecontee Lake in Maine. We went up for two weeks in mid-July. The drive each way was terrible - best part of 12 hours in both directions. North, we could never figure out why there was a horrendous backup from Massachusetts all the way up into Maine. The twelve miles of New Hampshire on route 95 alone took nearly 45 minutes. Whoo! But we had a lovely time, motored around the lake aboard Nancy's…

Brian Bilbrey May 30, 2021

30 May 2021

Today is the first time this year (actually, probably since 2019) that we ate out at a restaurant ... indoors. We went over to Mi Casita over in Gambrills, and had our fill of yummy Mexican cuisine. Today is also the first time this year that we celebrated our twenty third wedding anniversary. That'll be the only one, too, but when one is only counting to "one", it's easy. Because that's what she does: Y'all. Care for our democracy. Be vocal about these voting restrictions being put in place at the state levels all over the country. Put your money…

Brian Bilbrey May 23, 2021

23 May 2021

Well, it's been nearly two months since we last chatted, sorry for the inconvenience (as the Creator said to his Creation (in the fifth (I think) book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy)). A fair bit has happened in the interim. I have four ladders. This is a story about the fourth ladder. A couple of weeks ago, I was putting some items up in the garage attic. Two or three trips up and down the ladder. All done, I came down the ladder and it failed on me as I reached the third step. The wood broke…

Brian Bilbrey March 28, 2021

28 March 2021

In our first week of spring, we had lows in the 30's and highs in the 80's. Fortunately, I'm using Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. I've managed a bit of yard work over a couple of weekends, and the first mowing of the (front) lawn was yesterday. Today? More rain... a nice follow-up to the 2.15" of the moistness that visited us four days ago. (Sorry, California.) This little cute chipuggle joined our household eleven years ago yesterday, having made a trip up to Maryland from a kill shelter in North Carolina the very day we brought her home. She's now…