The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2019

13 May 2019

Friday the Thirteenth falls on a Monday this month. Triskaidekaphobia is a terrible thing, fortunately something I don't suffer from. So, Monday after a busy, busy weekend. Mowing the back yard for the first time since August took up much of Saturday, and all of my energy. We still made it out to Opening Night for Oliver! at Annapolis Shakespeare Company on Saturday night. What a wonderful fun show. The actors had fun, a group that we knew from prior shows along with many newcomers (mostly kids, for some reason...? Grin!). Much fun, Highly Recommended! Sunday was rained out, so…

Brian Bilbrey May 5, 2019

5 May 2019

We had all of the above grade windows in our house replaced on Friday. It's been a really busy week. I came home Thursday after a half work day, and spent the balance of my waking hours preparing the house for window replacement to start early Friday morning. All the window coverings (but for the master suite, which I held up until 7 AM Friday) were remove, cataloged and set aside (there's a story there, hang on...) Everything not nailed down was mostly moved at least three feet away from all the window openings, to facilitate the work. A fragile…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2019

29 April 2019

Saturday was a full, wonderful day at BsidesCharm 2019. I saw a number of interesting talks on security topics that taught me a lot. Sunday I planned to attend a second full day there, but the crashing near-migrane I woke with put paid to that plan. I just relaxed, and that's made today ever so much better. The thing I'm looking most forward to soon is Good Omens. If you aren't, you should be. The book is wonderful, too, and read it first if you can. My preparatory work for this is to watch some Neil Gaiman interviews. Note -…

Brian Bilbrey April 24, 2019

24 April 2019

I just stopped in to say Hi! Not dead yet, although it is my birthday today. So I took half of yesterday off to toddle down to the theater and help strike the set for Pride and Prejudice (which we saw twice and loved it). Then I came home and did yardwork: mowing and edging, mostly. That meant working a full day today to recover from physical labor. Other than that, all is good. See ya soon!

Brian Bilbrey April 8, 2019

8 April 2019

I'm on the recovery road. I was two hours in the chair this morning, getting a four-root canal job done on number 15, and there are two things that can be considered to be the best news. First best news - the tooth is saved. The worry was that there was a vertical crack in the tooth, invisible to the xray images, that would mean that the tooth would have to go. The second best news is that in the hours since the root canal, I've had my most comfortable eight hours out of the last three or so weeks.