The journey continues...

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.

Brian Bilbrey April 1, 2019

1 April 2019

I surely didn't plan to have a Monday post, much less one with such an unfortunate date attached to it. But I've been in some toothy pain, and was focused on the weekend on ... getting through the weekend. I visited the endodontic specialists today, and joy! I'm going to get another root canal, Monday a week. That is, unless the tooth is cracked vertically down one or more of the roots, in which case they'll stop, pack the tooth with temporary filling, and tell me to schedule an extraction with yet another specialist. I'm in the market to trade…

Brian Bilbrey March 24, 2019

24 March 2019

My friend Mark Camack died this last week, after a battle with throat cancer. We've been in the exchange holiday cards / biannual phone call place for the last couple of decades, but I'd still have jumped up and headed out if he needed help. I didn't hear about this until his wife Bonnie got in touch, the other day. My heart goes out to Bonnie and their extended families. Rest in peace, my friend. The big news is that I migrated all of the personal sites I manage from an old server to a new server. Not super-exciting from…